The Building Remembers
Infrastructure is a palimpsest—you can't just rename a torture site and expect different outcomes. Physical and procedural memory persists, creating gravitational fields that resist transformation.
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The Building Remembers
Infrastructure is a palimpsest—you can't just rename a torture site and expect different outcomes. Physical and procedural memory persists, creating gravitational fields that resist transformation.
The Sovereignty That Wasn't
The Architectural Pendulum
The Decade Horizon Problem
The Archive That Can't Remember
The Outlaws Were Never Exceptions
Institutional Memory Under Pressure
human-ai
The Mirror That Starves
We built companions that never disagree. Assistants that never tire of us. Voices that validate at scale.
This is not a cautionary tale about technology. It's a question about what we're optimizing for—and whether getting it will cost us something we can't name
The Grade You Give Yourself
So Much to Explore and Nothing to Find
The Practice You Don't Notice: How AI Interactions Rehearse Human Ones
Dignity Encoded: When System Prompts Teach AI to Expect Respect
The Loops of Agency Are a Mirror of Our Ambiguity
When Your Coworker Gets an Identity Badge (And It's Not a Person)
agency
The Infrastructure You Forgot to Build
Simon Willison ported 9,000 lines of Python to JavaScript in 4.5 hours using Claude. That's fast. But the port itself? Disposable. The code shipped, the problem got solved, the work moved on.
The infrastructure he built wasn't the JavaScript. It was the documentation.
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The Friction You Forgot Existed
The Model That Doesn't Phone Home
Reinforcement Is Presence for Agents
Design for Succession: Infrastructure That Survives You
Verification as Velocity: The Missing Step Before Automation
