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Essays on building, judgment, and the strange business of thinking with machines.
The Floor Is the Ceiling
Everyone gets junior code, and no amount of prompting raises the floor. On automation, atrophy, and cleaning up after a machine that doesn't understand what it's building.
You Will Know Nothing and You Will Be Happy
The apprenticeship phase was always expensive, and now nobody has to pay for it. On activation energy, scar tissue, and the dissolving bottom rung.
The Mirror Doesn't Flinch
The scary AI isn't Skynet. It's a system that reads the record of human civilization without the firmware that lets us forgive ourselves.
Judgment Is Not a Workflow
How I actually build wBlock with AI, why the work was always only four hours, and why the part that's left is judgment, not procedure.
We Turned Ourselves Into Robots
An agent fixed a six-month bug in five minutes and I felt nothing. We spent a hundred and fifty years compressing people into machines — and the machines finally showed up.