Technology & Education
We live in an extraordinary era. Technology transforms every aspect of our lives, and we are witnessing it firsthand.
Education rests on three foundations: what we teach, how we teach it, and the tools we use to teach and learn. Content. Pedagogy. Technology. Computers and the internet revolutionized content delivery — they made knowledge accessible, but left pedagogy untouched. We still teach largely as we did before screens arrived.
AI has the potential to change this. It can adapt to a learner's pace, give immediate feedback, and identify gaps in understanding that human instructors miss at scale. Most importantly, it makes one-on-one instruction economically viable for the first time in human history. The road is long and winding — but the work at this intersection matters now.
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The Slop Problem
AI produces "slop"—statistically average, fluent but hollow writing—not as a model failure but as an insight failure. Genuine originality requires standing at an uncrossed frontier that AI, trained entirely on the past, cannot structurally reach.
AI engineering has evolved through three compensatory phases — prompt, context, and harness — each addressing a failure the previous layer couldn't fix. Harness …
This essay argues that AI is reshaping software at an architectural level — moving from human-centered applications to a composable agentic ecosystem where …
E-learning has built a $300B industry around the least effective slice of the learning model — formal instruction — while neglecting the experiential and social …
The essay explores cinema's 'mysterious characters'—figures whose opacity resists even patient observation—arguing that withholding creates gaps that transform …
Why did developers abandon polished IDEs for a terminal tool? The answer is less about AI than about Unix—a 50-year-old design philosophy of composable text …
Two products born from the same codebase diverge in fundamental ways. Claude Code's local execution and CoWork's managed VM architecture shape not just …
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