The Shape of Understanding
Why do graphs and interactive explanations make ideas easier to grasp? The right form lets our eyes do some of the work our minds would otherwise have to tackle.
Tools
29posts
The Chatbot Brought Sheet Music
GPT-6 Astra brings AI into the rehearsal room, turning musical notation into a space for creative collaboration, experimentation, and sharper human judgement.
Please State Your Problem
From ELIZA to rogue AIs, a playable software archive shows how each era staged machine intelligence—and how readily humans supplied the illusion of a mind.
The Tool Is Not the Father
AI can either deepen self-invalidation or lower the barrier to practice. The difference lies in culture, incentives, and how we use it.
The Agents Have Arrived. Now What?
AI agents are everywhere now, local and cloud-based. The real question is no longer what they can do, but what we should let them do.
The Pious Little Delete Button
A cautionary parable about AI assistants, corporate piety, and the fragile difference between elegant automation and operational disaster.
The White Car and the Not-White Car
A skeptical tour of model hype, branding, and benchmark theater as Anthropic and OpenAI sell the next layer of artificial magic.
The Priests of Safe Superintelligence and the Cathedral of Glass
Anthropic's Project Glasswing becomes a study in safety rhetoric, controlled power, and the uneasy politics of vulnerability-finding AI.
PTP/1.0 — Prompt Transport Protocol
A playful mock protocol imagines prompts as transport packets, turning generative reconstruction into a deadpan internet standard.
Google Stitch Is Not the End of Design
Google Stitch is powerful, but the post argues that faster UI generation changes design work rather than eliminating design judgment.
The Hidden Cost of AI Speed: Why “More Output” Feels Like Burnout
AI speed can create exhaustion rather than relief when output accelerates but judgment, review, and responsibility remain human.
The Hidden Toll of AI in the Workplace
Behind efficiency promises, workplace AI may reshape pressure, monitoring, and cognitive load in ways managers prefer not to measure.
The Tool Is Not the Craft
AI adoption fails when organizations confuse access to tools with mastery of the craft needed to use them responsibly.
MCP meets no‑code: KNIME vs Make vs n8n vs Zapier
MCP could turn no-code platforms into callable tool providers for agents, changing the role of KNIME, Make, n8n, and Zapier.
The Paper That Made Me Close My Laptop and Pace Around the Room
Agent0 points toward self-evolving agents that learn through tools and reasoning traces without the usual diet of curated training data.
AI Consulting for SMEs: Practical Guidance, Real Impact
A practical consulting offer for SMEs that want AI adoption grounded in strategy, automation, risk management, and working systems.
Kimi K2 Thinking: China’s New Contender in the LLM Reasoning Race
Kimi K2 Thinking enters the reasoning-model race, showing how quickly China's AI frontier is becoming globally competitive.
The AI Bubble: Parallels to the Dot-Com Era and Beyond
The AI boom is compared with dot-com excess, asking which parts are durable infrastructure and which are speculative heat.
Are We Losing a Generation of Experts to AI?
AI may erase entry-level rungs before young professionals can build expertise, creating a hidden generational risk.
Comparison of OpenAI Language Models (May 2025)
A practical map of OpenAI's model lineup in May 2025, cutting through confusing names and overlapping capabilities.
Rethinking Reasoning: What if LLMs are Holding a Mirror to Human Cognition?
LLM reasoning failures may reveal uncomfortable parallels with human cognition rather than a simple machine deficiency.
Master AI Terminology: 50 Essential Terms Explained
A plain-language glossary of fifty AI terms for readers who want the field's vocabulary without the usual fog.
The Dark Side of AI: How Cybercriminals are Weaponizing Language Models
Malla represents the darker side of generative AI, where language models become tools for scalable cybercrime.
Exploring AI Self-Awareness: A Conversation with Claude 3.5 Sonnet
A conversation with Claude 3.5 becomes a small experiment in AI self-awareness, time, and conversational identity.
The Five Levels of AI: Has OpenAI's 'Strawberry' Reached Level 2?
OpenAI's Strawberry rumors are mapped onto staged AGI levels, asking what real reasoning progress would look like.
A Short Trip Through Data Science Workflows With KNIME
A practical introduction to KNIME and the shift from fragile spreadsheet work toward reproducible data workflows.
Apple's Stance on AI Transparency and Ethics at the Annual Shareholder Meeting
Apple's shareholder debate over AI transparency raises questions about ethics, disclosure, and corporate responsibility.
Apple's Foray into AI with Project "Ajax" and Apple GPT
Apple's rumored Ajax and Apple GPT projects are examined as early signs of its generative-AI strategy.
Apple's AI Ambition: The Dark Horse Poised for a Breakthrough in 2024
Apple's AI ambitions are framed as a possible breakthrough moment for Siri and the company's broader platform strategy.