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Mar 28, 2026

Flashy Demo, Weak Business

Most AI creative tools mistake novelty for demand. The durable businesses will sell leverage to professionals, build audience ecosystems, or disappear inside work people already need done.

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Code Is Cheap. Complexity Isn't.

Mar 28, 2026

Code Is Cheap. Complexity Isn't.

AI makes producing code cheap, but complexity remains expensive. The real edge belongs to those who know what to remove, not what to add.

Frictionless Creativity

Mar 26, 2026

Frictionless Creativity

AI compresses months of creative output into days, but the real bottleneck is the human well of experience, taste, and surprise that feeds good work — and it refills slower than machines can drain it.

How Bad Arguments Win

Mar 24, 2026

How Bad Arguments Win

A field guide to the rhetorical moves that make weak AI claims sound strong — name the trick, and it loses its power.

The Burnout Machine

Mar 22, 2026

The Burnout Machine

AI didn't eliminate work — it shifted the burden from production to judgment. Every role now carries a shadow job of managing, reviewing, and second-guessing machine output.

Fooled By The Prompt

Mar 21, 2026

Fooled By The Prompt

AI coding follows the same payoff curve as gambling: frequent small wins upfront, rare severe losses hidden in the tail. Through Nassim Taleb's lens, the teams that thrive will manage asymmetry, not just automate keystrokes.

The OpenClaw Craze in China

Mar 19, 2026

The OpenClaw Craze in China

An open-source AI agent became the most-starred GitHub project in history. The place it unexpectedly exploded hardest was China.

The AI Moloch

Mar 18, 2026

The AI Moloch

AI was supposed to make work lighter. Instead, it's turning speed into obligation. That's the AI version of Moloch.

No, Karpathy Didn't Rank Which Jobs AI Will Kill

Mar 17, 2026

No, Karpathy Didn't Rank Which Jobs AI Will Kill

Karpathy's viral jobs tool scores digital AI exposure, not job replacement. Here's what the tool actually measures, how the scoring works, and why the internet got it wrong.