Essays

Long-form thinking on AI, technology, institutions, and what it means to be human in an age of intelligent machines.

Three Ways to Run Parallel Agents in Claude Code
Lessons from the Lab

Three Ways to Run Parallel Agents in Claude Code

By a solo builder who had to figure this out the hard way I am a product manager turned builder, working on an ambitious AI project. Coming from a background of managing teams, the concept of running an agent team comes naturally to me. But for a little while there, I couldn't quite figure out […]

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Voice Mode Comes to Claude Code
Thoughts

Voice Mode Comes to Claude Code

Voice mode is beginning to roll out in Claude Code. It's currently live for about 5% of users today and will be expanding over the coming weeks. It's simple and elegant to use – you hold down the space bar, speak and then release when you're done. The transcript streams directly at your cursor, allowing […]

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Abstraction – How AI is Changing Work
Thoughts

Abstraction – How AI is Changing Work

In order to understand how AI is impacting the world of work, you need to understand the concept of abstraction. Throughout the modern age, the impact of technology on work has largely been one of abstraction. Most early factory assembly lines involved human beings creating things with their hands and then passing them to the […]

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Vibe Coding is Dying
Thoughts

Vibe Coding is Dying

Vibe coding is dying, and it is being replaced by something far more radical. In February 2025, Andrej Karpathy coined the term 'vibe coding' to define the collaboration between a human and a chatbot to develop software. The term was named the Collins English Dictionary Word of the Year for 2025, but as we enter into 2026, I […]

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Could TikTok Be the Dark Horse in the Search War Between ChatGPT and Google?
Thoughts

Could TikTok Be the Dark Horse in the Search War Between ChatGPT and Google?

ChatGPT has been cited as a potential ‘Google-killer’ due to its ability to serve some of the jobs that many people previously looked to the world’s biggest search engine for. ChatGPT excels in providing contextual, sophisticated answers and outputs in a conversational form. Indeed, it is gradually extending to other forms, including tables and pdfs. […]

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Why Countries and Companies Are Banning Chat GPT
Thoughts

Why Countries and Companies Are Banning Chat GPT

Last month, Italy became the first company to restrict national access to ChatGPT. A number of companies such as Samsung, Amazon and JP Morgan have banned the use of ChatGPT by employees, in some cases after leaks of sensitive company information. These are partly a result of the novel and in some cases unknown nature […]

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AI Technology: The Stuff Dreams are Made Of
Thoughts

AI Technology: The Stuff Dreams are Made Of

The fact that none of these women are real scares some people. I admit, as with all technology, there is potential for the ability to create any image your mind can think of to be abused. However, I am excited by the creative potential of this technology. As someone who has never had the time […]

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How and Why Creators Decide to Distribute Content as NFTs
Borderlands

How and Why Creators Decide to Distribute Content as NFTs

TL;DR First a creator must create quality content. Then they must decide whether or not they want to sell that content, because there are benefits to be derived from merely sharing quality content (though selling and sharing are not mutually exclusive). Then, in the current context, the creator must decide whether their content is better […]

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Free NFTs: How they work today
Borderlands

Free NFTs: How they work today

Free NFTs are a fairly common feature of the NFT space. There is already a lot of diversity, but we can group the different types of free NFTs into two main categories, distinguished on the basis on who can obtain them: Open Access Free NFTs and Closed Access NFTs. Category Open Access Closed Access Category […]

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