Thinking
Thinking out loud about what's going on.
Opinions, musings, and news about people putting machines to work.
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.