Thinking
Thinking out loud about what's going on.
Opinions, musings, and news about people putting machines to work.
AI Glossary for Nonprofit Folks
Vendors walk in talking about agentic workflows and fine-tuned models. Here are the AI terms fundraisers, operations staff, consultants and boards actually run into, in plain English — and the ones you can safely skip.
I Built a Stealth-Model Detector
I was curious whether a stealth model could be identified rigorously — so I built a detection harness and pointed it at Ox Alpha. First run: it named the lab, placed the version, and called Z.AI's own words four days early.
The Shadow AI Myth
Shadow AI is sold as a security epidemic. Read the workplace data honestly — without blending stats from different studies — and the real story is quieter: adoption outpacing governance, and value that only shows up when work is redesigned.
The Hidden AI Tax
Per-token prices fell 67%; enterprise AI bills doubled and tripled anyway. The gap is a tax paid in wasted tokens — agentic loops, stuffed context, discovery prompts. Where it hides, and how to stop paying it.
Bot Sitting
AI was sold as autonomy. What you got is a high-maintenance intern — and the invisible labor of keeping it from becoming a liability with a nice interface.
Signal to System
How I catch quiet failures while they're still cheap — my method for reasoning through complex, adaptive problems.