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The Loop You Were Already In
The interesting part is the fractal — tight loops inside medium loops inside long loops, each with different primitives and different levels of human involvement.
Software is no longer scarce. Judgment is.
I build systems, interfaces, and identities that survive AI abundance.
This is a space for thinking about judgment, systems, and design in an era where execution is cheap and discernment isn’t.
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- The Oracle Problem Everyone wants to be the source of truth. Almost nobody builds the structural conditions that make truth survivable. From the Delphic Oracle to Grokipedia, the pattern is the same — and it has nothing to do with intent.
- Defaults Are Decisions Every system has defaults. AI makes them more powerful and more invisible. The question isn't whether your system is biased — it's whose assumptions it's running on.
- What Are Test Scores Actually Worth? I built a school data product for parents. What I built, how my thinking evolved, what an axiom actually is, and where the data runs out.
- Your Infrastructure Spec Already Moved Into Your Code Infrastructure config is collapsing into application code — the same pattern as build tooling a decade ago. Void showed us the destination. The question is whether you want to ride the platform or steal the pattern.
Notes
- The Scarcity Shift Software engineering compensation was built on scarcity, not just difficulty. That scarcity is eroding. The people who survive are either unusually broad or unusually deep.
- Everything New Is Old Vector search in the 90s, badges that followed you through the office, and what happens when you build an AI system without knowing what's already been built.
- The Dopamine Layer A neuromarketing talk got me thinking about reward systems, GLP-1s, and what happens when AI becomes the most sophisticated rationalizer we've ever built.