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Open CloseAI
OpenAI is this company that always puzzles me. The more we know about it, the more puzzling it would become. I am not rooting against it. I am just doing the math.
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The Bitter Lesson Was Right. Then the Sun Got Involved.
The bitter lesson was most true in 2019. It is slightly less true today. And it will be less true still in the future. Not because scaling stopped working. But because the assumptions underneath it are quietly falling apart
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Google's Grand Moat Is Drying Up. Nobody Is Attacking It.
I spent two years arguing Google has the grandest moat in the AI era. Then I launched a small site, submitted 51 URLs, and watched 18 of them disappear in silence. No error. No explanation. Just absence. This is a case study in what a drying moat looks like up close.
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The UBI Math Doesn't Work. The Math Was Always There. Now It's Arriving.
In 2018, I wrote two articles nobody wanted to think about. Eight years later, Elon Musk and OpenAI are proposing solutions. That should worry us more than it reassures us.
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The Very Convenient Tesla 2026 Q1 Earnings Report
Tesla beat EPS. Net income up year-over-year. Free cash flow positive. The timing couldn't be better. Literally.
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Cursor Has No Moat. SpaceX Has No Cash. Perfect Match.
SpaceX's $60B Cursor acquisition is a credit card purchase before payday. A breakdown of the real numbers behind the IPO story.
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Chatting With The Oracle #1: There Is No Hallucination. There Is Only the Oracle.
AI agents are being deployed to make real-time decisions, but they have no reliable sense of when they are and what they utter. That's not a minor bug. It's a fundamental problem for anything we ask them to do autonomously.
culture
A House of Dynamite: Relax. This Is Not How It Works.
The threat we should fear isn't the one we can track. It's the complexity we've built that has outpaced our ability to model it, and the quiet assumption that someone, somewhere, still has their hand on the switch.
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Chatting With The Oracle #2: The AI That Doesn’t Know What Time It Is
AI agents are being deployed to make real-time decisions, but they have no reliable sense of when they are. That's not a minor bug. It's a fundamental problem for anything we ask them to do autonomously.
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Hail Mary: Traveling in the Darkness Lit Up by Stars
And why maybe we’ll be safe even if AI becomes more intelligent
tech
Tesla’s Most Expensive Illusion
Everyone has an explanation for what’s happening to Tesla. Most of them are incomplete.
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The Two and a Half People Who Understood
True understanding between people is rarer than we admit. Most connections are approximations. This is about what it actually takes to be seen, and why that's harder than it sounds, for humans and machines alike.