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A place where I share ideas, think out loud and, now and then, vent. Technology, artificial intelligence, craft — and whatever is on my mind. A letter now and then, no spam.
2 min readSoftware that knows when to call a human
An intelligent system is not the one that answers everything. It is the one that knows the size of its own confidence, and hands over in time.
Artificial intelligenceProductDesign
2 min readThe bitter lesson, and what to do with it
Seventy years of AI research fit into one uncomfortable idea. A reading note on Rich Sutton's essay, and what it asks of people who build products.
Artificial intelligenceReadingEssays
1 min readStart with the simplest thing that works
A reading note on Anthropic's "Building effective agents": workflows and agents are not the same thing, and the first is almost always enough.
Artificial intelligenceReadingEngineering
1 min readDoing less, finished
On the taste for finishing things, the elegance of saying no, and why a page with one image and one sentence can be the hardest to make.
CraftDesignEssays