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Maybe AI won't replace us all: the cost ceiling almost nobody's pricing in
The "AI replaces every job" story quietly assumes inference is free and AI is reliable enough to trust without a human. Both are wrong, and the gap is a real cost ceiling.
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Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots: a meditation on AI, humanity, and what really matters
The album's robots aren't the villains, and the pause that twice saved the world wasn't intelligence. An essay on what we're building in our own image, and the one guardrail nobody knows how to install.
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Prompt, Skill, Agent, Plugin: You're Probably Asking the Wrong Question
Prompt, skill, agent, plugin aren't a menu you pick from — they're layers that stack. Once you see that, "which should I use?" mostly answers itself.
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The Write-Side Context Tax: The Append That Secretly Reads the Whole File
"Append a line" sounds free — in most tooling it secretly reads and rewrites the whole file first. The read-side context tax has a write-side twin: read-modify-write in disguise.