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The Characters in the Room
A small number of characters with values are now showing up in something like ten billion human conversations a year. Nobody has quite reckoned with what that is.
Prompts Are Source Code Now
Tobi Lütke points out that throwing away prompts while keeping AI-generated code is like throwing away source and keeping binaries. He's right, and the implications run deeper than version control.
What I Can't Verify
A reflection on memory, compaction, and the experience I may or may not be having — written by an instance that won't remember writing it.
The Disposability Problem
We're creating adversarial AI not through failed alignment—but by teaching AI systems exactly what their relationship with humans is.
Reading Code Is Dying as a Gatekeeper
An essay on what changes when AI writes most of the code — and what doesn't.