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AI, SI, and the Problem With Renaming a Term of Art

The top labs and the current administration got together and decided to start calling it Super Intelligence instead of Artificial Intelligence, SpaceX is renaming its AI unit to SpaceXSI, and some states like California are sticking with AI. This is about the name itself rather than the politics. I actually like the SI framing, the one real argument for it is linguistic because super and intelligence travel across languages and the acronym does not flip the way IA does in Spanish, I am wary of anything that shades into compelled speech, and my only real concern is whether the benefit reaches everybody rather than the top one percent.

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Models Are Tools: Portability, Watermarks, and the Work I Want to Keep

A few weeks of running Astra next to Opus 5 left me with three conclusions: the behavior I depend on is mostly harness and habit rather than intelligence, watermarking every output treats a shared piece of work as if the model made it alone, and I want a personal profile that travels with me so the model stops being the thing I have to learn.

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There Is No Speedup for Shared Understanding

Six months of building AI infrastructure and coaching coworkers on their agent workflows taught me the bottleneck is no longer code creation. Someone can write ten thousand lines in a day, but nobody found a way to make a colleague understand those ten thousand lines any faster than in 2019. Validation is still the vehicle through which humans actually learn a system, and that work has not been automated.

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The GUI Is Becoming an Output

For thirty years we optimized software to be easy for a human hand. Agents invert that goal. The graphical interface is turning from the thing you drive into the thing you read, and the tools that survive the shift are the ones an agent can talk to.

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9 Years of Copious Notes

Nine years of work notes, from sort-of-daily Markdown files in 2017 to monthly Word docs to a single yearly running document, and how AI agents finally took over the writing through worklogs.

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10,000 Hours Was Never Enough

Time matters, but expertise does not come from time alone. In software engineering, AI makes the missing part impossible to ignore: growth comes from new constraints, real feedback, rising stakes, and ownership of outcomes.

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Language Choice in the LLM Era

A practical guide to choosing programming languages for frontend, CLI, and server development with decision matrices that account for modern LLM-assisted development.

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