Thoughts
Field notes.
Short pieces on AI, operators, and the laws of getting things done.
AI is only as good as the data underneath it.
May 2026 · 2 minWhatever shiny model you are looking at, the bottleneck is going to be the data layer underneath it.
What an LLM actually is.
May 2026 · 3 minI sat with a long Andrej Karpathy video until I could finally explain what is happening when I type into ChatGPT.
Stop asking what Claude can do for you.
April 2026 · 2 minI watched Erik Schluntz's vibe coding talk three times before the whole insight landed.
The seven-month doubling.
April 2026 · 2 minI do not use AI for where it is. I use it for where it will be in nine months.
Nothing compounds by accident.
April 2026 · 2 minWhat the second law of thermodynamics keeps teaching me about everything I care about.
AI tools are not AI agents.
March 2026 · 2 minI keep noticing people use the word 'AI' to mean two completely different things.
The pilot graveyard.
March 2026 · 2 minWhy a lot of enterprise AI pilots seem to ship and a lot of production rollouts seem to die.
Strategy without prototypes is theater.
February 2026 · 2 minI have started thinking that the fastest way to test an AI strategy is to build the smallest version of it before the deck gets approved.
What I was nodding along to.
January 2026 · 2 minI spent a year nodding along in AI meetings before admitting I did not actually know how a language model works.