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180 Days: Firewall The Layoff
The valley is about to see more layoffs. Not because people are not working hard enough. Because the math changed.
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artificial intelligence
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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Tesla’s Most Expensive Illusion
Everyone has an explanation for what’s happening to Tesla. Most of them are incomplete.
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A Phone Call at the Edge of the Compute Bubble
A reflection on enterprise AI adoption, risk ownership, and decision paralysis under accelerating technological change
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When a Song Confuses AI: What It Reveals About the Mystery of Human Creativity
When statistical models meet subtle human creativity
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Amazon’s Layoffs: Sign of Strategic Rewiring
Amazon has $93 billion in cash and generates $32 billion in free cash flow. This isn't about saving $2 billion. It's about direction.
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Highway FSD: Safe Enough to Relax, Not Enough to Look Away
Why the hardest part of self-driving isn’t the code — it’s the second before we take the wheel.
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How California’s Child-Safety Law Crowned the OS as King — and Why That Matters to Your Company
The unintended consequences of rewriting the balance of power between apps and the few platforms still standing — the operating systems
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The Catastrophe of the Missing Nail
From fool-proof to fast-fix — and the quiet decay of engineering conscience
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Breakfast at the Edge of the Compute Bubble
AI's killer app hasn't shown up for breakfast yet. We're building infinite highways for cars that don't exist. The highways are very nice, though.
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AI Is the Child of Probability, Humans Are Prisoners of Causality
Einstein was wrong. Bohr was right. The universe runs on probability, not cause and effect. We've spent centuries pretending otherwise. Then we accidentally built something that doesn't pretend.
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Five Buckets for The Future And The Greatest Negotiation In Human History
The future is not one thing. It collapses into a handful of stable outcomes, and most of them aren't pretty. I reduced it to five buckets. This is not science, or prophecy. It is a framework for paying attention to what's actually being decided while everyone is looking at their phone.