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Where AI meets
anthropology

Thoughts on AI automation, business culture, and the patterns most people miss. No hype, no fear. Just honest observations from someone building at the intersection.

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Ai Transformation

The Flowchart

If Opus 4.7 needs instructions that explicit, it needs its own programming language. Because it's no longer interested in inferring what we have to say.

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Groundwork

The Fortress

Cloud AI fails. Power grids fail. Your client's deadline doesn't care about either one. So I built Krull AI, a complete offline solution.

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Ai Transformation

The Dose

Your developer is deciding how much to tell you about AI risk. That's not dishonest. It's rational. But the questions you're not asking are the ones that matter most.

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Ai Transformation

The Trojan Combine

The 2026 Farm Bill pays farmers 90 cents on the dollar to adopt AI they didn't ask for, to replace workers they didn't choose to lose. The conservation budget got cut to fund it.

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Why Anthropology?

The world is changing fast.
Culture is the steering wheel.

AI reshapes what we do. Anthropology reveals why we do it. Understanding the human patterns beneath the technology is how we build systems that actually serve people.

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