Tagged "system-design"
13 essays · All essays
Jev and the Renaissance of Classifiers
Jev, its open-source alternatives, and the emerging decision primitives that could automate parts of software development.
The Correctness Economy
AI made volume free; correctness became the binding constraint.
The Smooth Frontier
The jagged frontier that defined AI capability in 2023 was not an intelligence problem.
The 17% That Matters
AI reasoning and output operate as semi-independent processes: a model can identify the correct answer in its reasoning and then produce a recommendation that contradicts it.
Why These Models Fail Like Humans and Not Like Software
AI failures are not nonsense — they are near-sense, persuasive while subtly wrong.
AI Does Not Think Like Software
Language models are probabilistic systems being deployed where deterministic logic belongs.
A Reasoning Model Is a Simulator of Thought
Modern reasoning models simulate what reasoning looks like well enough to produce real reasoning behavior — but without the guarantees of formal reasoning.
Why the Best Model Depends on the Shape of the Work
Model selection still happens as if intelligence were one-dimensional: find the strongest score on a leaderboard, deploy it everywhere, optimize later.
Centralized Intelligence vs Orchestrated Intelligence: Why Your Model Choice Is Really a Systems Choice
Frontier models are not just different in quality — they express fundamentally different bets on how intelligence should be organized.
Want Some Python With Your Burrito?
Companies are stuffing general-purpose intelligence into single-purpose systems and calling it innovation.
Why Most No-Code Tools Are a Dead End
No-code tools abstracted syntax but not structure.
The Future Is Not Neural or Symbolic. It Is Both.
The neural-vs-symbolic debate is a false choice. The most effective AI systems are hybrid — neural for ambiguity and synthesis, symbolic for exactness and verification.
The System Is the Product
A framework for understanding why improving outcomes requires improving the system that generates them, and why AI makes system design the dominant factor in performance