log_24/24 Emerald Green A Collection of Short Stories 2026-05-25 log_23/24 I Finally Get It I used to find it baffling when friends my age said they were not going to vote for anyone, ever, full stop. The position seemed lazy to me, or affected, the kind of thing people say to look unbothered. I am not sure when exactly I stopped thinking that, but I have stopped. The longer I pay attention to American politics, the more I think the nihilists, and by extension, the broader young adult electorate, are the ones who are onto something. 2026-05-22 log_22/24 What Does It Mean To Be Alive? Current models aren't conscious. But the easy dismissal is lazy too. An essay on AI, rights, simulation, and what stays human when machines get good at imitating us. 2026-05-02 log_21/24 Why Language Models Struggle to Design What They Have Never Really Encountered 2026-04-04 log_20/24 On the Moral Imperative of Never Finishing Your Side Projects A rigorous, airtight, and logically impeccable defense of the most productive form of productivity: quitting. 2026-03-17 log_19/24 Nothing: Building a Language from Raw Assembly and Letting Claude Optimize It the first real experiment in the agentic-experiments series, and what it taught me about how an AI approaches performance work 2026-03-16 log_18/24 Agentic Experiments letting a coding agent try to fix itself, and seeing what happens 2026-03-13 log_17/24 Anthropic v. The United States: A Legal Breakdown This is the companion piece to My Thoughts on Anthropic v. The United States Government. That essay was about the structural failure that produced this standoff. This one is about the legal specifics of what is actually happening in court. 2026-03-10 log_16/24 My Thoughts On Anthropic v. The United States Government Who has the moral standing to set limits on the use of a capability they created? The government? Or Private Corporations that created them? 2026-03-10 log_15/24 Nobody Deserves Anything The concept of "deserving" is philosophically incoherent, and we have built entire civilizations on it 2026-03-06 log_14/24 On Writing, and Lurking how I ended up wanting to write a book I'll probably never show anyone. 2026-03-01 log_13/24 On the Free Market Principle of Government-Mandated Loyalty How the United States government blacklisted an American company for having terms of service, and what that means for the country you thought you lived in. 2026-02-28 log_12/24 What We Found When We Actually Ran the Experiment a follow-up, some corrections, and a new direction. 2026-02-20 log_11/24 What We Measure When We Measure Intelligence in Machines new benchmark? mayhaps... 2026-02-16 log_10/24 A Comfortable Proposal On the Merits of Total Observation A calm, logical case for why you should want to be watched at all times. You will agree with more of it than you are comfortable with. 2026-02-14 log_09/24 Why Biometric Verification on Social Media Is a Terrible Idea We built a surveillance machine and called it convenience. Now social media wants your face scan to 'protect kids.' I think that's a terrible idea, and here's why. 2026-02-11 log_08/24 GPT-5.3-Codex and Opus 4.6 My thoughts on GPT-5.3-Codex and Opus 4.6 by OpenAI and Anthropic 2026-02-09 log_07/24 The Long-Term Restructuring of Technical Labor in the Age of Artificial Intelligence 2026-02-07 log_06/24 A Critical Examination of Solipsism 2026-02-04 log_05/24 Trained on Everything, Understanding Nothing: Consciousness, Pattern Matching, and the Question We Keep Avoiding “What if the reason we deny consciousness to AI reveals we don’t understand our own?” A philosophical inquiry.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ 2026-02-03 log_04/24 Duck & Goose Duck is a programming language where every line of code needs to say "quack" or the interpreter refuses to run it. What started as a joke accidentally forced real decisions about parser design, error UX, and module systems, and now it can build Discord bots. 2026-01-02 log_03/24 The NVIDIA x Groq Situation A $20 billion dollar handshake that leaves competitors with nothing but ashes 2025-12-26 log_02/24 The Sacred Orb: A 5,000-Year Quest to Write Without Smudging Humanity burned soot, juiced squids, and accidentally corroded the Magna Carta. All so you could stand at a bank counter in 2025, scribbling angry circles in the margin because your free pen skipped on the "J." The ball in that pen is machined to tolerances smaller than a blood cell. You're still mad at it. Both of you are valid. 2025-12-24 log_01/24 Anthropic's Opus 4.5 Might Signal the End of the AI Arms Race as We Know It Anthropic's Opus 4.5 leads on benchmarks and enterprise revenue. But closed source tools, invisible engineers, and slow inference are leaving developer goodwill on the table. A call to open up. 2025-12-16