Hic Sunt Dracones
2025 was the year AI became inevitable. Does anyone else feel like Sam Altman’s weekly reminders that “AGI is coming” was a lifetime ago? We’ve all become a lot less enthusiastic about what LLMs can and can’t do since then, even if we’re still navigating the societal shift the dumber, shittier version of AM, JARVIS or Skynet has brought on. Dumb as it is, GPT and its similar cohort of general purpose agents are changing society, and it seems all but irreversible that we’ll soon be living in a...
Hic Sunt Dracones
2025 was the year AI became inevitable. Does anyone else feel like Sam Altman’s weekly reminders that “AGI is coming” was a lifetime ago? We’ve all become a lot less enthusiastic about what LLMs can and can’t do since then, even if we’re still navigating the societal shift the dumber, shittier version of AM, JARVIS or Skynet has brought on. Dumb as it is, GPT and its similar cohort of general purpose agents are changing society, and it seems all but irreversible that we’ll soon be living in a...
Why do Devs get so much free sh*t?
Let me begin by stating something I know in my heart of hearts to be true. **Being a nerd is the coolest thing in the world** With that said, I do think the word “nerd” has hijacked that amazing feeling of curiosity and passion, bordering on obsession, that you get when you try to understand anything deeply. I seriously believe the world would be a better place if people started chasing their curiosity without the constraints of being productive, getting rich, or even mastering anything. Half...
Why do Devs get so much free sh*t?
Let me begin by stating something I know in my heart of hearts to be true. **Being a nerd is the coolest thing in the world** With that said, I do think the word “nerd” has hijacked that amazing feeling of curiosity and passion, bordering on obsession, that you get when you try to understand anything deeply. I seriously believe the world would be a better place if people started chasing their curiosity without the constraints of being productive, getting rich, or even mastering anything. Half...
Anti/tech
I walked awkwardly into a sterile waiting room that would’ve been better suited for a travel agency or a dentist office than a “Career Optimization Lab”. 17-year old me didn’t quite understand how significant a moment that afternoon was about to be, just going through the motions to make my parents happy, get a college diploma, just biding my time while I figured things out for real. They tested and probed me. Aptitude quizzes, psych evaluations, EEG suction cups stuck to my temples as I answ...
Anti/tech
I walked awkwardly into a sterile waiting room that would’ve been better suited for a travel agency or a dentist office than a “Career Optimization Lab”. 17-year old me didn’t quite understand how significant a moment that afternoon was about to be, just going through the motions to make my parents happy, get a college diploma, just biding my time while I figured things out for real. They tested and probed me. Aptitude quizzes, psych evaluations, EEG suction cups stuck to my temples as I answ...
Techno-Feudalistic Quixote
It's common knowledge that the talk of town in the Bay Area, at least in terms of "The Future of Government", circles around technocracies and Network States (as presented by Balaji Srinivasan). Between Balaji's book of the same name, the holier-than-thou attitude of most tech people, and Elon Musk's bid for power earlier this year, I’d say there's a pattern we oughta look at. There are few things more dangerous in this world than a powerful individual believing they can do things better by t...
Techno-Feudalistic Quixote
It's common knowledge that the talk of town in the Bay Area, at least in terms of "The Future of Government", circles around technocracies and Network States (as presented by Balaji Srinivasan). Between Balaji's book of the same name, the holier-than-thou attitude of most tech people, and Elon Musk's bid for power earlier this year, I’d say there's a pattern we oughta look at. There are few things more dangerous in this world than a powerful individual believing they can do things better by t...
Re-learning to trust each other's voice
We like to blame the internet, or LLMs, or our failing education systems for our terrible communication skills. And while there’s certainly a component to that, the art of captivating an audience has measurably been in decline for generations before technology threw our storytelling decline into overdrive. You've probably noticed AI-generated writing online—those telltale "vibrant tapestries" and bullet-pointed posts with excessive em-dashes that flood LinkedIn, Instagram, and Twitter. But wh...
Re-learning to trust each other's voice
We like to blame the internet, or LLMs, or our failing education systems for our terrible communication skills. And while there’s certainly a component to that, the art of captivating an audience has measurably been in decline for generations before technology threw our storytelling decline into overdrive. You've probably noticed AI-generated writing online—those telltale "vibrant tapestries" and bullet-pointed posts with excessive em-dashes that flood LinkedIn, Instagram, and Twitter. But wh...
