Prompts, Context, Tools, Statelessness… and a Parade of Fools
An AI Trilogy
For the most part, I’ve stayed quiet about AI.
That may seem strange given how completely it has occupied my mind… and my hands… for years now. But I wanted to think before I spoke. I wanted to watch what it was doing to me… to my work… to my sense of the future.
Last week I published the opening salvo. An essay about what learning AI is actually doing to my brain. Not the hype. Not the market. The personal rewiring.
After this begins the trilogy.
A trilogy in four parts 😉
The next piece, publishing right after this, is a retuning. A reframing of how we should be thinking about AI in the first place. We have spent decades trying to replicate the human brain… as if the human brain were some kind of gold standard intelligence.
It isn’t.
The brain is a biological control system. It evolved to run a fragile meat body using bargain-basement sensors. Narrow bandwidth vision. Crude audio. Chemical emotion. Constant survival pressure. It is extraordinary at keeping us alive long enough to reproduce.
That does not make it the ideal architecture for intelligence in a world with absurd instrumentation, planetary networks, and effectively infinite memory.
We are building minds for a universe our biology was never designed to inhabit.
That shift changes what intelligence is. It changes what work is. It changes what ambition is. It changes what it means to build something in public.
The third essay, coming this weekend, is the deep dive. My whole career under the pressure of AI… what it is breaking… what it is amplifying… where I see hope… and where I see a parade of fools walking confidently in the wrong direction.
AI has been with me a long time. I have scars. I have convictions. I have doubts.
Read all of it.
Then tell me where I’m wrong.
Yes… I said four parts.
There will be.
But that would be telling.