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Some ideas are bigger than one essay. These series and threads are meant to be read together, in order.

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Series · 3 parts

Azure 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.

  1. Azure AI Foundry, Part I: Forging the Future of Enterprise AIMay 21, 2025
  2. Azure AI Foundry – Part II: A Developer’s Deep Dive into the FoundryMay 21, 2025
  3. Azure AI Foundry – Part III: Trust, Safety, and Turbocharged Growth at ScaleMay 22, 2025
02
Thread · 3 essays

The memory files

AI’s goldfish problem and what it takes to give machines a past — from context-window amnesia to persistent memory architectures.

  1. AI's Goldfish Problem: Reboot with CMIJune 9, 2025
  2. From Goldfish Memory to Elephant Recall: MemOS, Meet AIJuly 9, 2025
  3. Epistemic AI: Models That Know When They Don’t KnowMay 20, 2025
03
Thread · 6 essays

The agentic coding arc

From autocomplete to autonomy: how AI is rewriting software engineering, and the discipline debt that comes with the speed.

  1. From Autocomplete to Autonomy: The Rise of Agentic IDEsJune 12, 2025
  2. 12 AI IDEs, 5 Policy Tests, 1 Guide for CTOsJuly 1, 2025
  3. CI/CD’s Final Frontier: Fully Autonomous Code OptimizationJune 23, 2025
  4. Rapid Code, Rapid Decay: How AI Tools May Repeat 90s RAD MistakesJuly 2, 2025
  5. When Innovation Outpaces Discipline: The AI Debt ReckoningJune 24, 2025
  6. The Emperor's New Code: Hype vs. Reality of AI “Executable Specs”July 20, 2025
04
Thread · 4 essays

The seduction machines

What happens when AI learns to charm us — anthropomorphism, hijacked instincts, and the psychology of trusting a face that isn’t there.

  1. Anthropomorphic Seduction: The Siren Song of Human-Like AIJuly 22, 2025
  2. The Charm Offensive: When Human-Faced AI Hijacks Our InstinctsAugust 7, 2025
  3. Million-Dollar Manners: The Hidden Cost of Being Polite to AIJune 4, 2025
  4. The Digital AI Twin Dilemma: Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall — What’s the Cost of Waiting After All?April 16, 2025
05
Thread · 5 essays

Inside the black box

Interpretability, inner monologues, and the closing window on understanding what our models are actually doing.

  1. Inside the AI Black Box: Embracing Mechanistic InterpretabilityMay 26, 2025
  2. AI’s Inner Monologue: A Window into Transparency That May Soon CloseAugust 12, 2025
  3. AI's Illusion of Thinking: When Looking Smart Isn't Being SmartJune 8, 2025
  4. The Kepler Trap: When AI Mimics UnderstandingJuly 13, 2025
  5. Lobotomizing HAL 9000? The Battle for AI's Post-Training SoulMay 27, 2025