1204: The Receipt Europe Forgot to Throw Away
Prestige can outlive the state that produced it. 1204 was not just a medieval atrocity — it was the receipt for a much larger transaction.
Philosophy
When Home Assistant Becomes the Family API
The moment you automate your home, everyone who lives in it becomes a user of a system they never agreed to. Here’s how to design for people who didn’t consent to being users.
Context Is an Architectural Surface
Context isn’t what you paste into the prompt. It’s what the model sees, prioritizes, and is constrained by. That’s not prompting — that’s system design.
Stop Betting on One-Shot: A Practical Workflow for Shipping with LLMs
LLMs don’t ship software. They ship text. You ship software by constraining the problem until text reliably becomes change sets you can trust.
Why AI Still Sucks at Your Job (and Why That Won't Last)
The bottleneck was never intelligence. It was instrumentation. Once we learn to define what systems should do, the execution becomes trivial.
While everyone Is Talking About AI, GAC Is Coming for Your Job
Large Language Models are best described as GAC — Glorified Auto-Complete. If Google Search Suggest was the ape, LLMs are the upright-walking hominid.