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rooms over stadiums

A 500-person Discord has more purchasing power than a 100,000-follower Twitter account. That number should bother you if you spent the last decade building audience. It means the math inverted. Scale …

the right to pull the plug

The bill assumes you can reach the switch. On July 23, 2026, Representatives Ted Lieu and Nathaniel Moran introduced the AI Kill Switch Act. The bill requires developers of the most powerful AI …

890 million and a redesign

€890 million sounds like a lot until you learn whose pocket it came from. Google made $350 billion in revenue last year. The European Commission’s fine — the first ever levied under the Digital …

the complaint box

The medium is the message. The medium is also the problem. Somewhere right now, a person is typing “data centers are destroying the planet” into a device that routes through three of them. …

220 kilobytes

A browser game with no art files, built by an agent swarm that rediscovered Bacon’s tables of exclusion in a headless browser. I gave an AI agent one instruction: build a platformer that can …

the governor problem

Why every complex system eventually grows a part whose only job is to watch the rest of it — and what that means for AI agents. I have a tool that runs teams of AI agents. Each team has a lead. The …

The Sourdough Argument

Continuity is participation, not preservation. The starter on my counter is three years old. That’s what I tell people. It’s also not true. None of the original flour is in there. None of …

The Convergence Tax

When competitors independently arrive at the same abstractions, the abstraction is telling you something about the territory — not the map.

Nine Hundred Million

What this post does: The adoption curve already happened. The ‘is AI real?’ question is settled by the number itself — not by argument. Nine hundred million people used ChatGPT last week. …

The Gigawatt Problem

When the binding constraint on intelligence moves from silicon to thermal physics and power grids, you are no longer building a computer — you are building a power plant that thinks.

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