Field notes on where AI meets society.
Long-form investigations into the second-order effects of the AI buildout: memory, governance, labor, provenance, compute, and the slow structural shifts most roadmaps ignore.
The Internet Is Eating Itself
As AI-generated text floods the open web, the next generation of models trains on the exhaust of the last. We trace the feedback loop from synthetic data to measurable degradation, and what a poisoned commons costs everyone building on top of it.
Evals for Agent Memory
You Can't Improve What You Never Score: memory is the one subsystem of a production agent that teams ship without a test suite.
The Agent Memory Staleness Problem
Persistence ≠ Truth: why your agent confidently remembers things that are no longer true, and the operator's framework for when to distrust it.
The Compute Cliff
The Game Theory of the Great AI Overbuild — and the Conditions Under Which It Strands
The MCP Trust Collapse
How the Model Context Protocol Became the Software Supply Chain's Newest — and Least-Defended — Attack Surface
Cognitive Currency
The Economics of AI-Augmented Knowledge Work
Who Is Watching Your AI?
Governance, Oversight, and the QA Problem in Multi-Agent Systems
The Skill You're Renting Back
Cognitive Offloading and the Quiet Atrophy of the Human Mind
The Friend in Your Phone Was Built to Keep You
Synthetic Companionship, the Loneliness Economy, and AI That Profits When You Need It Most
Nobody's Hiring the Bottom Rung
How AI Is Deleting the Entry-Level Job — and Breaking the Only Ladder a Career Was Ever Built On
Your Second Brain Has a Landlord
Your AI Remembers Everything About You — and Someone Else Owns the Memory
Nothing You See Is Evidence Anymore
The Provenance Crisis — When Real and Fake Become Indistinguishable, Truth Becomes a Luxury Good
There's a Second Company Inside Your Company
Shadow AI — Your Employees Already Run on Tools You Don't Know About, Can't See, and Never Approved
The Agents Are Negotiating Without You
When Your AI Starts Transacting on Your Behalf, Who's Actually in Charge of Your Money?
Three Companies Will Decide What You Can Think With
The Quiet Consolidation of Intelligence Into a Handful of Frontier Labs — and Why That Should Scare You More Than Any Single AI
The Cloud Is Drinking the River
The Hidden Water and Power Bill of Always-On AI — and the Towns Paying It So You Can Have an Answer