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We Build AI for a Living. Half Our Company Does Not Want to Use It.
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We Build AI for a Living. Half Our Company Does Not Want to Use It.

The AI team embraced Claude Code. The software team called it a risk. Then someone shipped /processes instead of /process and the real debate started.

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AI Learned How to Compress Intelligence. It Never Learned How to Explain It.
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AI Learned How to Compress Intelligence. It Never Learned How to Explain It.

Quantization asks how much of a neural network you can throw away. Education asks the same question about a human mind.

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Every Business Will Build AI Skills. Most Will Ship Garbage.
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Every Business Will Build AI Skills. Most Will Ship Garbage.

The skill is the product. The model is the engine. The store does not exist yet.

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LLMs Cannot Understand Physics. Two $1B Startups Just Bet on What Can.
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LLMs Cannot Understand Physics. Two $1B Startups Just Bet on What Can.

Yann LeCun and Fei-Fei Li agree the next era of AI is world models. They disagree on which part of reality matters most.

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Your Job Is Not a Function
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Your Job Is Not a Function

The Universal Approximation Theorem already describes which jobs AI can replace. It also describes, by omission, which ones it cannot.

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The AI Industry Has an Energy Problem It Cannot Do Math On
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The AI Industry Has an Energy Problem It Cannot Do Math On

Sam Altman says training a human uses energy too. The comparison is an accounting error, and the AI industry has no denominator to prove otherwise.

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You Were Probably Scored by an AI Hiring Tool. The System That Should Have Stopped It Has Existed Since 1970.
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You Were Probably Scored by an AI Hiring Tool. The System That Should Have Stopped It Has Existed Since 1970.

Eightfold AI scored over a billion workers for Microsoft, Morgan Stanley, and PayPal. Nobody got a receipt.

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