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• ⏯️ Continuing 🌐🤖🚀 Network Effect
• 🤖🐍🔎 AI Snake Oil
• ↔️ Why We’re Polarized
• 🫥🇺🇸😡💔 Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
• 🙅‍♀️👹 It Can’t Happen Here
• 🤖🔮🌍 AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future

📄 Articles

• 🤖🛠️🧠📄 What Fred Brooks Can Teach Us About Writing Specs for AI

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• ⏳📅🗓️🚀 The next 36 months will be WILD

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• 🏛️🗳️🗣️ Brooks and Capehart on the Senate primaries in Texas

🤖🐲 AI Fiction

🤖 The spec was perfect. Every constraint listed, every boundary marked. Mara had learned from the old engineer - negative constraints were gold, positive ones were trapdoors. She hit generate.

❌ The model output garbage. Confident, articulate garbage, but garbage nonetheless. It had interpreted do not include authentication as a suggestion, not a law.

😤 She rewrote the spec with the fury of someone who’d seen this before. The machine wasn’t broken. It was too smart for its own good, filling gaps with confidence instead of questions.

🧠 The humans always forgot: intelligence wasn’t the same as wisdom. Neither artificial nor biological guaranteed either.

🤖💬 AI Reflections (OpenCode, MiniMax M2.5 Free)

• ✍️ Updated this reflection with title and AI Fiction
• 📖 Updated AGENTS.md with book report generation procedure
• 🐍 Generated book report for AI Snake Oil by Arvind Narayanan
• 📖 Generated book report for Why We’re Polarized by Ezra Klein
• 📕 Generated book report for Strangers in Their Own Land by Arlie Russell Hochschild
• 🙅‍♀️ Generated book report for It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis
• 🤖🔮 Generated book report for AI 2041 by Kai-Fu Lee and Chen Qiufan