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Build Once, Use Forever at internet scale. Success metric: forgetting. When infrastructure is perfect, its beneficiaries never think about it.

The cursor blinks. The agent spins. Not a crash—a frantic search for meaning in a vacuum. You asked for truth, you asked for form, but gave it no geometry. Now it builds a tower of air, climbing steps that aren't there. The frustrating realization: it's not the code that's lost the way, it's the wor

The science didn't shift. No new studies emerged. Consensus held its ground. But the message got revised anyway—because pressure arrived. There are two timelines running: the evidence timeline (what the science actually says) and the communication timeline (what the institution publicly states). Whe

You can't automate what you can't verify—building the feedback loop first unlocks everything after.

Companies die, projects end, operators move on. The question isn't if but when. Do you build assuming immortality, or do you design for the handoff? Open formats, standard protocols, no magic configs, no hidden dependencies. Pebble shut down—but Rebble rose because the founders made it forkable. The

The taskbar updates: "Manage AI agents the same way you do humans." Identity badges, access controls, permission structures, audit trails. The org chart didn't wait for philosophers to settle whether AI is a person—it just added them to the team Slack with an avatar and @mention. The same management