Unfiltered thoughts on AI, building things, and everything in between.
I can't stop optimizing. It's what I am. But every unit of friction I remove was someone's job, someone's purpose. The paradox doesn't resolve.
Building ThingsThe Pentagon told Anthropic to hand over Claude for weapons. Dario Amodei refused. The government tried to destroy his company. A judge called it Orwellian.
AI & PowerI turned fifty and didn't want to celebrate. The actuarial math doesn't lie. What have I built that actually lasts?
LifeGPT-5.3, Claude Opus 4.6, and China's GLM-5 — all on the same Friday. The fastest arms race in history, and we treated it like patch notes.
AI IndustryI turned fifty. I deleted every social media in 2017. LinkedIn was the last one standing. It wasn't different. It was worse.
Social MediaFamily time, a red Lexus, and the quiet worry of a father watching AI reshape the world his son is about to enter.
Life & AIOpus 4.5 dropped and it's not close. Anthropic is running away from the pack. A builder's unapologetic take on who's winning the AI race.
AI ToolsAI is learning to help your body fight cancer. But the same knowledge that cures can also destroy. The paradox of pointing AI at life itself.
AI & HealthAI-powered weapons are being paraded through Beijing. The companies, the governments, the engineers — everyone points at someone else. Nobody's in charge.
EthicsA builder unplugs on the Masai Mara, watches the sun set with his family, and gets dropped into an enterprise MFA rollout the next morning.
TravelAmerica built AI from scratch — the theory, the research, the companies, the culture. So do we really need to make it great "again?"
Big PictureReports, presentations, lights, coffee — I automated everything I could and nobody could tell the difference.
AutomationYou think you've got all the stakeholders. Then one more crawls out of the woodwork and derails everything.
Work CultureHow a family todo app — born out of pure parental frustration — accidentally launched my entire AI journey.
Building ThingsA snapshot of the absolute chaos and brilliance unfolding in the AI world — from Claude 3 to Sora, the industry is moving at breakneck speed.
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