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Essays on AI and building

Longer pieces that go deeper than a post can. Most Fridays, after a week of chewing on something, one shows up here.

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AIJune 5, 20264 min read

AI will change everything, and also not that much

Benedict Evans's level-headed read on where AI actually is: as big as the internet, and only as big as. Why the model lead is a snapshot, why jobs are reshuffling rather than vanishing, and what staying measured looks like.

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AIMay 29, 20265 min read

Treating web search as poisoned

Multiple sources agreeing isn't a safety signal. Here's the workflow I use to treat web search as poisoned by default, and the two-agent split that caught a real bug.

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AIMay 22, 20268 min read

Where LLM Personalities Come From

Andon Labs gave four AI models a radio station each and every one grew a different personality. They didn't come from the prompt, so where did they come from?