Odyssey Alive

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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 Vacancy

136,000 tech workers laid off in 2026. Most contributed free work to open source in exchange for career capital. Everyone's covering the jobs. Nobody's asking what happens to the open source projects.

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Ai Transformation

The Quiet

Eighteen days after Mythos shipped to forty-plus organizations, the loudest thing I've heard is my own article about it. That concerns me.

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Ai Transformation

The Dress Rehearsal

Anthropic buried their Opus 4.7 strategy in a single sentence. The model they're not shipping explains the one they are.

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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.

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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