Models
What AI models can do, how they differ, and what people are building with them.
8 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 Smooth Frontier
The jagged frontier that defined AI capability in 2023 was not an intelligence problem.
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.