Technology & AI
Fifty-One Things
Fifty-one aphorisms on the future of work and AI, looking forward from March 2026.
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Essays about artificial intelligence, software, and the compression of digital work.
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The Human Overhead
Everyone talks about what AI agents can and can't do. Nobody talks about what humans require just to show up. The severance packages, the exit interviews, the quiet resentments—the entire invisible infrastructure of employing a person.
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The Eureka Tax
There is a moment in songwriting when the bass clicks in with the drums, when the arrangement locks, when the thing you've been circling for hours suddenly resolves. AI is eliminating that moment. And it's eliminating it everywhere.
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The Compression
Sometime around 2015, there was an office in a WeWork. The walls were exposed brick. The desks were reclaimed wood. They were building a website for a premium dog treat brand. The project would take four months and cost $180,000. And then, very quickly, a large language model learned to do most of it.
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The benign mediocrity of AI responses
It's the second day of 2025. Commercial consumer-facing AI has been around for over two years. Here is a fundamental problem with AI chat.