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.
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.
More Writing
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- 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.
- What's Left: Software Engineering in the Agent Era When anyone can spin up a coding agent and ship something workable, what actually matters? Not the word soup — the real answer.
Notes
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- 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.
- Kipple at Scale Large engineering orgs already solved coordination for thousands of humans. How much transfers to thousands of agents — and where does entropy win?
- The Fork in the Stack The agent era is splitting infrastructure into two camps: those building new primitives and those retrofitting old ones. The bet you make reveals what you think agents are.