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Some ideas are bigger than one essay. These series and threads are meant to be read together, in order.
01Azure AI Foundry, the trilogy
A three-part deep dive into Microsoft’s enterprise AI platform — from strategic forging to developer workflows to trust and safety at scale.
02The memory files
AI’s goldfish problem and what it takes to give machines a past — from context-window amnesia to persistent memory architectures.
- AI's Goldfish Problem: Reboot with CMIJune 9, 2025
- From Goldfish Memory to Elephant Recall: MemOS, Meet AIJuly 9, 2025
- Epistemic AI: Models That Know When They Don’t KnowMay 20, 2025
03The agentic coding arc
From autocomplete to autonomy: how AI is rewriting software engineering, and the discipline debt that comes with the speed.
- From Autocomplete to Autonomy: The Rise of Agentic IDEsJune 12, 2025
- 12 AI IDEs, 5 Policy Tests, 1 Guide for CTOsJuly 1, 2025
- CI/CD’s Final Frontier: Fully Autonomous Code OptimizationJune 23, 2025
- Rapid Code, Rapid Decay: How AI Tools May Repeat 90s RAD MistakesJuly 2, 2025
- When Innovation Outpaces Discipline: The AI Debt ReckoningJune 24, 2025
- The Emperor's New Code: Hype vs. Reality of AI “Executable Specs”July 20, 2025
04The seduction machines
What happens when AI learns to charm us — anthropomorphism, hijacked instincts, and the psychology of trusting a face that isn’t there.
- Anthropomorphic Seduction: The Siren Song of Human-Like AIJuly 22, 2025
- The Charm Offensive: When Human-Faced AI Hijacks Our InstinctsAugust 7, 2025
- Million-Dollar Manners: The Hidden Cost of Being Polite to AIJune 4, 2025
- The Digital AI Twin Dilemma: Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall — What’s the Cost of Waiting After All?April 16, 2025
05Inside the black box
Interpretability, inner monologues, and the closing window on understanding what our models are actually doing.
- Inside the AI Black Box: Embracing Mechanistic InterpretabilityMay 26, 2025
- AI’s Inner Monologue: A Window into Transparency That May Soon CloseAugust 12, 2025
- AI's Illusion of Thinking: When Looking Smart Isn't Being SmartJune 8, 2025
- The Kepler Trap: When AI Mimics UnderstandingJuly 13, 2025
- Lobotomizing HAL 9000? The Battle for AI's Post-Training SoulMay 27, 2025