Buy them the tools
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Jensen Huang wants engineers spending $250k/yr in tokens. Others say that’s reckless. But the debate over company-sponsored tool budgets isn’t new — and neither is the answer.
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The Upfront Investment That Saves 10,000 Hours
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There’s a pattern in tech where people mock the setup cost of automation without accounting for the return. I spent a day building a Grunt-based WordPress bootstrapper in 2013. Fortune 500 companies are still running code built on that foundation today.
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From Defense AI Drift to Policy Enforcement: Why I Built Firebreak
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I wrote earlier about why defense AI companies drift toward offensive applications. Today for a hackathon I built the engineering solution I wish had existed when I was inside that world. Firebreak is a policy-as-code enforcement proxy that makes pre-negotiated AI boundaries hold — automatically, at machine speed, with full audit trails.
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AI Slop and the em-dash
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There’s a common perception that em-dashes may indicate AI-generated writing. But for those of us who use tools like WordPress for publishing … we might be using em-dashes regularly without even knowing. Our tools polish our typography, letting us focus on the content. While em-dashes can signal professionalism, they shouldn’t be solely equated with AI…
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The Gravity Problem: Why Defense AI Companies Drift Toward Offense
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The Secretary of Defense has pressured Anthropic to permit military use of its AI for “all lawful purposes,” threatening to invoke the Defense Production Act. Anthropic refuses to enable mass surveillance or autonomous weapons, highlighting the industry’s shift from defensive to offensive applications. The situation reflects broader challenges in maintaining ethical AI boundaries amidst government…
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Your Return-to-Office Policy is Killing Your AI Strategy
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Organizations struggling to trust and manage remote workers will find themselves completely unprepared for the autonomous nature of AI agents. The same control issues that drive return-to-office mandates will cripple AI adoption.
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Signal vs. Noise: How AI Slop Kills Conversation
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AI-generated content is everywhere. It’s flooding our professional networks. Destroying social media. Filling news feeds. Each with generic, templated posts that follow predictable patterns. AI slop destroys meaningful discourse and makes it harder than ever to find authentic insights. But the patterns make it easy to find and ignore.
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The Deceptive Promise of AI
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The promise of AI automating mundane tasks seems appealing but is fundamentally flawed. It may eliminate boring jobs, but it doesn’t provide economic security. Displaced workers will be forced to seek new employment. This will turn creative passions into money-making endeavors, stripping them of their joy.