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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

How AI Hacks Humans

Google changes your settings every week. So when a scam asked a specialist to log in and change one, it sounded like work.

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Ai Transformation

The Endorsement

The government banned Anthropic's AI for being too dangerous. Every competitor's model is still running. That's not the compliment it sounds like for the competition.

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Groundwork

Two Brains: Why Dynamic Model Routing Beats Picking One AI

The better your coding model gets at code, the worse it writes. I stopped picking favorites and started switching between them.

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Ai Transformation

Will AI Stall Itself?

We call it the cloud. It is a windowless metal shed in the desert, and it is drinking the town's water. The thing most likely to slow AI down is not a smarter rival. It is the body AI runs on.

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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.

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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