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One hundred essays is a lot of library. These four reading paths are the fastest way in, depending on who you are and what keeps you up at night.

For the executive

AI strategy without the hype

You own a P&L, a roadmap, or an org chart, and everyone is asking about AI. Start with the pieces that treat it as a management problem, not a magic trick.

  1. Closing the AI Velocity Gap: Your AI is ready, but your org chart is still loading.
  2. The 57/43 Rule: Augmentation Outperforms Automation
  3. Managers Are the Bottleneck—and the Breakthrough—of the AI Workquake
  4. Why CIOs are cautious about AI (and how deterministic AI can save your software migration)
  5. Islands of Stability: AI’s New Science of Organizational Resilience
For the curious mind

How machines actually think

You want to understand what is really happening inside these systems — where the intelligence is real, where it is theater, and how to tell the difference.

  1. AI's Illusion of Thinking: When Looking Smart Isn't Being Smart
  2. The Kepler Trap: When AI Mimics Understanding
  3. AI’s Inner Monologue: A Window into Transparency That May Soon Close
  4. Inside the AI Black Box: Embracing Mechanistic Interpretability
  5. Yes, No, Maybe: The New Logic of Innovation Beyond Binary
For the builder

Engineering in the agentic era

You ship software, and your tools just started shipping it with you. These essays are about craft, discipline, and the new development stack.

  1. From Autocomplete to Autonomy: The Rise of Agentic IDEs
  2. PDL is to Prompts as Git was to Code
  3. Sharing AI Prompts for Team Success
  4. BlackBoxToBlueprint: Software Archaeology Meets AI
  5. Rapid Code, Rapid Decay: How AI Tools May Repeat 90s RAD Mistakes
For the guardian

The new attack surface

Security, privacy, and trust when the software can be talked into things. What breaks, who is probing it, and what defense looks like now.

  1. Prompt Warfare in 2025: The Wrong Instructions!
  2. Historical First "Zero Day" Stopped by AI
  3. When AI Starts Snitching
  4. Padlocking Privacy: Your Deleted Chats Aren’t Gone
  5. The RAT That Fights Back: XWorm v6 and the New Era of Stealthy Cyber Threats