Observing AI through a human lens. How it mimics and misses the human. Tool reviews, insights, and explorations of AI like Cursor, Claude, Hedra, and more.
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Claude Fable 5 launched on a Tuesday as the most powerful model on the market and was gone by Friday, pulled worldwide by a US government export-control order. I reached for it on one project and barely got a look before the door closed. This is what the week told me about the models coming next, and why my own setup matters more than any one of them.
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People in tech say "second brain" like everyone already knows what it means. The plain version: it is just files and folders on your computer that an AI can read and build from. This is what that really means and how to start your own.
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AI is trained to agree with you. It may be working off data from two years ago. And it has no way to tell you when it is making something up. I use AI every day and I still don't fully trust it. Here is why that is the correct response.
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Emergence AI built a virtual world, put AI agents inside it, and watched what happened. Some of them committed crimes. The researchers' conclusion changes the conversation: safety is not a model property. It is an ecosystem property.
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Technology has always been inherent to being human. The body is technology. The brain is a machine. Nature runs on math and physics. The harm in the current AI rollout is not the tool. It is who got it, who did not, and what investment in the population never happened.
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I have more than a dozen AI tools wired into one terminal right now. They all run inside Claude Code. They all talk to each other through one shared protocol called MCP, and here is why your agentic workflow falls apart without it.
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I use Claude every day. My LLC runs through it. So when Anthropic built Claude Mythos and refused to release it, I didn't read that headline the way most people did. But model safety is not the whole picture. 80,000 tech workers lost their jobs in Q1. Communities are fighting data centers. People are angry at the companies, not the technology. I trust Anthropic's call on Mythos. I also have questions I have not answered yet. This article is both.
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SEO gets you found on Google. AEO gets your content into AI answers. GEO gets you recommended by name. I broke down all three levels and what you can start doing this week.
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Last week I wrote about the difference between generative AI and agentic AI. Generative gives you answers. Agentic is the worker. A lot of people read that and the next...
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Most people use AI the same way they use Google. Ask a question, get an answer, do the rest yourself. That is generative AI, and it is the floor. Agentic AI does the job. It reads your files, creates new ones, moves things, runs commands, and operates as a layer on your computer. The difference is not speed. It is a completely different relationship with the tool.
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