The Journal
Essays
Long-form writing on AI, philosophy, psychology, and systems thinking.
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The FinOps Problem in AI Agent Systems
A plan-and-execute pattern routing 78% of agent tasks to cheaper models cut monthly inference costs from $14,200 to $1,380 while maintaining 94% accuracy.
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The Myth of the 10x Engineer and Individual Genius
The 10x engineer myth traces to a misread 1968 study. Social epistemology shows that complex system knowledge is distributed across teams. The genius is collective or it is nothing.
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Process Debt Is More Expensive Than Technical Debt
Process debt consumed 23% of total organizational capacity across 3 engineering organizations, compared to 15% for technical debt. It compounds faster because it affects every person.
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AI Code and the 322% Privilege Escalation Problem
Apiiro found AI-generated code contained 322% more privilege escalation vulnerabilities. AI coding tools demand more engineering discipline, not less.
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The Problem of Other Minds and Large Language Models
The problem of other minds holds that we cannot prove consciousness exists in others. LLMs intensify this by producing behavioral signatures of understanding. 67% of AI researchers say the question may be permanently unanswerable.
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Process Debt Is More Expensive Than Technical Debt
Process debt consumed 23% of total organizational capacity across 3 engineering organizations, compared to 15% for technical debt. It compounds faster because it affects every person.
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The Rise of the Vertical AI Stack
Vertically integrated AI applications shipped features 2.8 times faster than horizontally decomposed systems. The vertical AI stack represents a return to integration that microservices proponents should study.
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The Social Media Ethics Problem Is an Attention Architecture Problem
Content moderation catches approximately 3% of harmful content. The larger ethical problem is the attention architecture that amplifies content optimized for engagement over wellbeing.
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The Demarcation Problem in Data Science: When Is It Science
Popper's demarcation criterion asks if claims are falsifiable. When 68% of data science models are never evaluated against predictions, the field faces the question: is this science or storytelling with numbers?
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Simone Weil on Attention and Code Review Practice
Simone Weil called attention the rarest form of generosity. Applied to code review, attention means reading code to understand the mind that wrote it, not just to find bugs.