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I work on AI

The more I think about it, the more I believe software development is not using AI anymore. It’s AI that is using software development.

Accountability magnets

Accountability magnets

When AI and robots can do most of the work, the last human jobs won’t be the ones where humans are better. They’ll be the ones where the law needs someone to blame.

What is superintelligence?

What is superintelligence?

Superintelligence isn’t AI that’s really good. It’s AI that’s better than all of us, at everything, including building the next AI.

It’s the energy, stupid

It’s the energy, stupid

If we want to pace AI, energy is probably the only bottleneck we can actually use.

Bacteria trying to control humans

Bacteria trying to control humans

Whatever protections we said we’d need once AGI arrived, we need them now. And we don’t have them.

Boiling People

Sometimes you're in an incident and nobody has told you. So you keep following business-as-usual procedures, flawlessly, while the lab burns.

Interviewing agents

Interviewing agents

Managing agents is turning into management. The hard problems in my fleet aren't technical — they're organizational.

2028: Remember when we didn’t have agents?

2028: Remember when we didn’t have agents?

Agents don’t eliminate the cognitive cost of work. You go from doing work you’re accountable for to being accountable for work you didn’t do.

Life with a phone after years without

Life with a phone after years without

So AI is kind of a loophole to Internet usage. It seems efficient, but its power means the controls I set around it are never as strong as my abstinence was.

What if agents could talk to each other?

What if agents could talk to each other?

Subagents are the waterfall of engineering with AI. So I gave my agents a direct line to each other — and watched the agile manifesto reemerge on its own.

Where are all the AI customers’ yachts?

Where are all the AI customers’ yachts?

The shovel sellers of AI are definitely making bank. But what about us simple mortals trying to use AI to make an extra buck?

AI Evals

Eval scores are garbage for many reasons, but let’s start with a very obvious one: scoring open ended things with accuracy and precision is virtually impossible, and pretending to do so is either naive or malicious (depending on your incentives).

What happens to software given AI?

What happens to software given AI?

If you wanted the future to be easy to predict, you shouldn’t have thrown a stochastic alien technology that can potentially replace humans in the mix.

Tokenomics

Leaders measuring productivity in tokens are mostly right. Most token measures used today are garbage. Most people don’t know what they’re talking about when they talk about tokens as a measure of productivity.

Delegating Attention

Delegating Attention

Things are different now. We have Neal Stephenson’s editors — we just have to put them to use. Editors read things for you, remove the slop, and surface exactly what you’re looking for.

AI brought me back to social media

AI brought me back to social media

AI moves so quickly that books are no longer sufficient to convey the culture and information needed for AI expertise

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AI Alignment

AI alignment is a philosophy problem we never solved, not a technical problem.

AI as a DJ

What LLMs have is something Spotify doesn't: they've been trained on millions of words about music.

Navigating AI in 2026

Navigating AI in 2026

The future has never been as unevenly distributed as it is today.

Artificial General Intelligence

Artificial General Intelligence

We’re moving from a time when humans were doing the work while using tools to, well, a time when the tools are doing the work.

IA fora dos Estados Unidos

IA fora dos Estados Unidos

Welcome to our world! For today’s empathy exercise, you’ll need a little workaround: copy and paste this prompt on ChatGPT or Claude to read the article in English: Translate the article at https://duion.life/ia-fora-dos-estados-unidos from Portuguese into natural, idiomatic English, keeping the

What happens to our jobs given AI?

What happens to our jobs given AI?

But so much of our economy is now either mechanized or digital, that I’m not sure we can make cooks and dentists out of everybody. Besides, who will have the money to pay us.. other cooks and dentists?

3 AI Competencies

3 AI Competencies

Knowing how to code by hand won’t prepare you to use AI augmented coding, the same way that writing with a pen wouldn’t prepare you to use a typewriter.

Recent books and brief AI reflections

Recent books and brief AI reflections

We’re running a live experiment with very big levers and very little control.

Are you talking to a robot?

Are you talking to a robot?

This myriad of async text mediums, I’m afraid, is a perfect breeding ground for talking agents.