Open weights got close enough to the frontier that the vendor stopped mattering.

Did you craft this document through careful back-and-forth with an AI assistant, or did Claude write it while you were taking a dump?

Off the coast of Dominica, the Cetacean Translation Initiative (CETI) is feeding thousands of sperm whale codas into the same kind of large language models (LLMs) that power human chatbots.

Cassandra saw Troy burning before the first torch was even lit. She was ignored, silenced, and murdered, and the city burned anyway.

GiveWell has directed $2.3 billion in grants since 2014, of which Latin America received 0.02 cents per dollar. Yet 220 million people in the region live in or near poverty.

The Mexican cavefish kept its eye genes for over a million years after the eyes themselves disappeared. Something similar happens to companies once they achieve success.

Imitation has become the sincerest form of strategy.

The surest way to ruin an engineering team is to believe it will survive whatever you do to it.

Nothing reveals an organization’s philosophy of product quite like giving someone the title “product manager” while denying them a product.

Corporate wisdom assumes everyone has the same amount to lose.

We do not need LLM-powered industrial sabotage. With humans in the loop, we can self-sabotage much more efficiently.

When Anthropic proved to be a liability, I replaced Claude Code with OpenCode.