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INDEX · 11 ENTRIES

Writing

Notes and essays, as they land.

01 / NOTES

  1. 01The World Is Not Logged. Real-world observability is the bottleneck for AIAI is limited less by intelligence than by observability: it can only reason about the parts of the world that leave a record. · Deep Tech→
  2. 02You Cannot Hear a Fake. Why voice deepfake detection fails, and what replaces itVoice deepfake detection is an arms race the detector loses, so the question has to change from “is this fake?” to “can this prove it is real?” · Speech→
  3. 03Clicking Is Solved. Agents now fail at spatial reasoning and long-horizon contextAgents can use a computer now; what they cannot do is hold a three-hour task in mind, or a room in mind at all. · Deep Tech→
  4. 04The Voice Came Loose. The state of speech AI: cloning, codecs and super-resolutionSpeech has become an editable medium, and a voice is now a parameter rather than a person. · Speech→
  5. 05Deconstruct to Be Reborn. Taking the self apart to find what is load-bearingThe self is a structure you can take apart, and taking it apart is how you find out what was load-bearing. · Philosophy→
  6. 06Problem Relativity. The size of a problem depends on where you standThere is no absolute size to a problem, only its size measured from where you stand. · Philosophy→
  7. 07The Issue Is the Primitive. Running companies of humans and agents on Linear’s modelThe best operating system for a company of humans and agents already exists, and it looks like an issue tracker. · Systems→
  8. 08The Curse of Knowledge. Why experts explain badly, and prompts fail the same wayOnce you know something you lose the ability to imagine not knowing it, and that quietly ruins how you teach, write and prompt. · Mind→
  9. 09The Story Is Not the Wall. What high agency is, and why AI makes it matter moreHigh agency is the habit of treating the limits other people describe as a story you are allowed to edit. · Agency→
  10. 10The Workplace AI Paradox. Why faster people don’t make faster companiesAI makes individuals faster almost at once and organisations faster almost never, at least at first. · Work→
  11. 11How Ideas Cross. Diffusion of innovation, and why better products still stallNew things spread through people, not through quality, and the hardest step is the jump from the curious few to the practical many. · Culture→