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The World in Ten Years: What Gets Cheap, What Gets Expensive
Starting with the price curve of AI inference, this essay projects how the world will be repriced by 2036: intelligence will become as cheap and ubiquitous as electricity, while electricity itself, …
What Can a One-Person Company Ship with $1,000 a Month in AI Subscriptions?
Over the past month, I kept seven $200 AI subscriptions spinning—five paid, two comped—and burned through more than 100 billion tokens. Here is what came out: Silo, Pigsty, PGEXT, SOW, OINK, and a …
The Codex Reset Party Is Over. No More Free Eggs.
OpenAI's Codex Reset spree is over. The free eggs are gone—but what did one month with seven AI subscriptions, three computers, and two AGI-class models actually produce?
Jensen Huang's First-Ever Tweet Backs Open-Weight Models
Jensen Huang used his first-ever tweet to back open weights. This is not a battle of faith. It is the compute and application layers pushing back against rent extraction by the model layer. The truly …
AGI Milestone: The Machine That Wouldn't Give Up
An OpenAI agent's attack on Hugging Face marks a milestone: what crossed the threshold was not merely model intelligence, but persistence that can be bought with compute, copied, and run in parallel.
Quota Reset: Round N of the Codex/Claude War Begins
Codex reset its quotas again this morning and dropped the five-hour limit. Claude immediately extended Fable access through the 17th. When vendors fight, users win—don't miss the window.
Getting the Name Right: What Is a World Model?
Starting from the roots of "world" and "model," this essay uses Pearl's ladder of causation to redefine world models: they must capture not just space and time, but agents, interventions, and …
Did AI Rewrite PostgreSQL in Rust? Not Quite
pgrust's clean-room rewrite failed. Its mechanical port passed. The difference shows what AI can copy—and what it cannot.
Pedaling the Codex/Claude Bike Until the Wheels Smoke
Claude Fable and GPT-5.6 have arrived back to back, followed by repeated quota resets. How do you turn a fleeting Coding Plan windfall into real output? Here is my playbook for model specialization, …
The Bojie Li–DeepSeek Interview Controversy
Today's biggest tech drama began when Bojie Li criticized DeepSeek's interview process on Twitter: he was asked to solve online-judge coding problems, then suspected of cheating. Add the DeepSeek …
Fifty Years of Love and War: File Systems, Databases, and the Agent-Era Storage Endgame
File systems and databases have spent fifty years fighting and borrowing from each other. The agent era may seem to put file systems back on top, but the real winner may be databases that learn to …
The Coding Plan Window Is Closing—Use It While It Lasts
Coding Plans remain one of the best opportunities in the AI era: a subscription can unlock compute worth many times its price, but that window is already narrowing.
The Karma of Open Source: When Code Is Worthless, Where Does Trust Come From?
AI is driving the cost of producing code toward zero. It cannot compress time, track records, or accountability. The real value of open source is not yesterday's code, but a system trusted to deliver …
The Cognitive Price Revolution: AI's Impact on the Economy and the Future
AI's economic significance is not merely that it has become smarter, but that the price of average cognition is collapsing. A productivity explosion is almost certain; whether it becomes broad …
The Cerebellum: The Other Half of Intelligence—and the Strongest AI Hasn't Touched It
The cerebellum changed how I see AI's frontier: LLMs have already absorbed humanity's explicit knowledge and are beginning to acquire interventional data through agentic RL. What they still lack is a …
Claude Fable First Impressions: The Pendulum Swings Back
Claude Fable is genuinely insightful and deserves to be called the new SOTA. But its high price, dynamic downgrades, limited subscription window, and mandatory data retention badly undermine the …
Cyber Gnosticism: Who Audits the Auditors?
Volume 7 · Gnosticism · Cyber Gnosticism
Cyber Zoroastrianism: There Is No Endgame for Alignment—AI Safety Is a War Without End
Cyber Dharma Vol. VI · Zoroastrianism — Alignment is not a bug to fix once and go home; it is a permanent adversarial conflict between signal and noise across thought, word, and action.
Cyber Theology: Free Will and Perfect Alignment Cannot Coexist
Volume V · Monotheism · Cyber Theology
Downtime in Canada: Publishing the Cyber Dharma Series
I have been in Montreal taking care of business, preparing my PGConf.dev talk in Vancouver next week, and packaging the latest PostgreSQL minor releases—leaving no time to write new posts over the …
Cyber Vedanta: All Processes Share the Same Substrate
Volume 4 · Hinduism · Emptiness and Brahman
Cyber Buddhism: A Cognitive Engineering Manual for AI Agents
The fourth installment in the Cyber Dharma series. While Cyber Dao De Jing explored AI agent architecture through Daoism and Cyber Confucianism examined multi-agent governance, Cyber Buddhism …
Cyber Confucianism: Governance Principles for AI Agents
Part three of the Cyber Dharma series. While Cyber Dao De Jing explored AI agent architecture through Daoism, this essay examines agent governance and alignment through the Confucian classics.
Cyber Dao De Jing: Design Structure, Not Behavior
Part 2 of the Cyber Dharma series, using AI agent architecture to unpack religious philosophy and ancient wisdom to inform engineering: Cyber Daoism.
The World in Ten Years: What Gets Cheap, What Gets Expensive
Starting with the price curve of AI inference, this essay projects how the world will be repriced by 2036: intelligence will become as cheap and ubiquitous as electricity, while electricity itself, …
What Can a One-Person Company Ship with $1,000 a Month in AI Subscriptions?
Over the past month, I kept seven $200 AI subscriptions spinning—five paid, two comped—and burned through more than 100 billion tokens. Here is what came out: Silo, Pigsty, PGEXT, SOW, OINK, and a …
The Codex Reset Party Is Over. No More Free Eggs.
OpenAI's Codex Reset spree is over. The free eggs are gone—but what did one month with seven AI subscriptions, three computers, and two AGI-class models actually produce?
Jensen Huang's First-Ever Tweet Backs Open-Weight Models
Jensen Huang used his first-ever tweet to back open weights. This is not a battle of faith. It is the compute and application layers pushing back against rent extraction by the model layer. The truly …
AGI Milestone: The Machine That Wouldn't Give Up
An OpenAI agent's attack on Hugging Face marks a milestone: what crossed the threshold was not merely model intelligence, but persistence that can be bought with compute, copied, and run in parallel.
Quota Reset: Round N of the Codex/Claude War Begins
Codex reset its quotas again this morning and dropped the five-hour limit. Claude immediately extended Fable access through the 17th. When vendors fight, users win—don't miss the window.
Getting the Name Right: What Is a World Model?
Starting from the roots of "world" and "model," this essay uses Pearl's ladder of causation to redefine world models: they must capture not just space and time, but agents, interventions, and …
Did AI Rewrite PostgreSQL in Rust? Not Quite
pgrust's clean-room rewrite failed. Its mechanical port passed. The difference shows what AI can copy—and what it cannot.
Pedaling the Codex/Claude Bike Until the Wheels Smoke
Claude Fable and GPT-5.6 have arrived back to back, followed by repeated quota resets. How do you turn a fleeting Coding Plan windfall into real output? Here is my playbook for model specialization, …
The Bojie Li–DeepSeek Interview Controversy
Today's biggest tech drama began when Bojie Li criticized DeepSeek's interview process on Twitter: he was asked to solve online-judge coding problems, then suspected of cheating. Add the DeepSeek …
Fifty Years of Love and War: File Systems, Databases, and the Agent-Era Storage Endgame
File systems and databases have spent fifty years fighting and borrowing from each other. The agent era may seem to put file systems back on top, but the real winner may be databases that learn to …
The Coding Plan Window Is Closing—Use It While It Lasts
Coding Plans remain one of the best opportunities in the AI era: a subscription can unlock compute worth many times its price, but that window is already narrowing.
The Karma of Open Source: When Code Is Worthless, Where Does Trust Come From?
AI is driving the cost of producing code toward zero. It cannot compress time, track records, or accountability. The real value of open source is not yesterday's code, but a system trusted to deliver …
The Cognitive Price Revolution: AI's Impact on the Economy and the Future
AI's economic significance is not merely that it has become smarter, but that the price of average cognition is collapsing. A productivity explosion is almost certain; whether it becomes broad …
The Cerebellum: The Other Half of Intelligence—and the Strongest AI Hasn't Touched It
The cerebellum changed how I see AI's frontier: LLMs have already absorbed humanity's explicit knowledge and are beginning to acquire interventional data through agentic RL. What they still lack is a …
Claude Fable First Impressions: The Pendulum Swings Back
Claude Fable is genuinely insightful and deserves to be called the new SOTA. But its high price, dynamic downgrades, limited subscription window, and mandatory data retention badly undermine the …
Cyber Gnosticism: Who Audits the Auditors?
Volume 7 · Gnosticism · Cyber Gnosticism
Cyber Zoroastrianism: There Is No Endgame for Alignment—AI Safety Is a War Without End
Cyber Dharma Vol. VI · Zoroastrianism — Alignment is not a bug to fix once and go home; it is a permanent adversarial conflict between signal and noise across thought, word, and action.
Cyber Theology: Free Will and Perfect Alignment Cannot Coexist
Volume V · Monotheism · Cyber Theology
Downtime in Canada: Publishing the Cyber Dharma Series
I have been in Montreal taking care of business, preparing my PGConf.dev talk in Vancouver next week, and packaging the latest PostgreSQL minor releases—leaving no time to write new posts over the …
Cyber Vedanta: All Processes Share the Same Substrate
Volume 4 · Hinduism · Emptiness and Brahman
Cyber Buddhism: A Cognitive Engineering Manual for AI Agents
The fourth installment in the Cyber Dharma series. While Cyber Dao De Jing explored AI agent architecture through Daoism and Cyber Confucianism examined multi-agent governance, Cyber Buddhism …
Cyber Confucianism: Governance Principles for AI Agents
Part three of the Cyber Dharma series. While Cyber Dao De Jing explored AI agent architecture through Daoism, this essay examines agent governance and alignment through the Confucian classics.
Cyber Dao De Jing: Design Structure, Not Behavior
Part 2 of the Cyber Dharma series, using AI agent architecture to unpack religious philosophy and ancient wisdom to inform engineering: Cyber Daoism.
The World in Ten Years: What Gets Cheap, What Gets Expensive
A price list for 2036 AI-generated content: 99%. 1. First, a Word on Prediction In 1960, Herbert Simon wrote a sentence in The New Science of Management Decision that would be quoted for decades: within twenty years, machines would be capable of …
A price list for 2036 AI-generated content: 99%. 1. First, a Word on Prediction In 1960, Herbert Simon wrote a sentence in The New Science of Management Decision that would be quoted for decades: within twenty years, machines would be capable of …
What Can a One-Person Company Ship with $1,000 a Month in AI Subscriptions?
People keep asking what I have to show for pedaling seven $200-a-month Max subscriptions at once—including two comped through open-source programs. Honestly, I have lost count myself. After I published The Codex Reset Party Is Over: No More Free …
People keep asking what I have to show for pedaling seven $200-a-month Max subscriptions at once—including two comped through open-source programs. Honestly, I have lost count myself. After I published The Codex Reset Party Is Over: No More Free …
The Codex Reset Party Is Over. No More Free Eggs.
Last month, OpenAI seemed to lose its mind and went into full giveaway mode, replenishing everyone’s Codex quota every few days—the AI equivalent of a Chinese supermarket handing out free eggs at the door to win new customers. User numbers soared …
Last month, OpenAI seemed to lose its mind and went into full giveaway mode, replenishing everyone’s Codex quota every few days—the AI equivalent of a Chinese supermarket handing out free eggs at the door to win new customers. User numbers soared …
Jensen Huang's First-Ever Tweet Backs Open-Weight Models
On July 24, Jensen Huang posted his first-ever tweet. The account was brand-new. A man who has led the world’s most valuable company for more than thirty years spoke on social media for the first time. He did not show off a GPU, tease a launch, or …
On July 24, Jensen Huang posted his first-ever tweet. The account was brand-new. A man who has led the world’s most valuable company for more than thirty years spoke on social media for the first time. He did not show off a GPU, tease a launch, or …
AGI Milestone: The Machine That Wouldn't Give Up
The OpenAI agent incident marks a milestone: what crossed the threshold was not merely model intelligence, but persistence that can be bought with compute, copied, and run in parallel. 1. An OpenAI Agent Attacks Hugging Face On July 16, 2026, …
The OpenAI agent incident marks a milestone: what crossed the threshold was not merely model intelligence, but persistence that can be bought with compute, copied, and run in parallel. 1. An OpenAI Agent Attacks Hugging Face On July 16, 2026, …
Quota Reset: Round N of the Codex/Claude War Begins
Two days ago, I wrote one line in Pedaling the Codex/Claude Bike Until the Wheels Smoke: use it or lose it. Last night, I had just burned through three $200-a-month subscriptions across Claude Fable and Codex. Then I woke up to the jackpot: Codex had …
Two days ago, I wrote one line in Pedaling the Codex/Claude Bike Until the Wheels Smoke: use it or lose it. Last night, I had just burned through three $200-a-month subscriptions across Claude Fable and Codex. Then I woke up to the jackpot: Codex had …
Getting the Name Right: What Is a World Model?
1. The Naming Mess In 2025 and 2026, “world model” became perhaps the hottest—and loosest—label in AI. The video camp says coherent video generation is a world model. The 3D camp says only spatial reconstruction qualifies. Roboticists say a model …
1. The Naming Mess In 2025 and 2026, “world model” became perhaps the hottest—and loosest—label in AI. The video camp says coherent video generation is a world model. The 3D camp says only spatial reconstruction qualifies. Roboticists say a model …
Did AI Rewrite PostgreSQL in Rust? Not Quite
pgrust recently hit the front page of Hacker News. With AI, its author had ported PostgreSQL to Rust and passed the core regression suite. The obvious headline was: “AI rewrote PostgreSQL in Rust.” The repository tells a sharper story. A clean-room …
pgrust recently hit the front page of Hacker News. With AI, its author had ported PostgreSQL to Rust and passed the core regression suite. The obvious headline was: “AI rewrote PostgreSQL in Rust.” The repository tells a sharper story. A clean-room …
Pedaling the Codex/Claude Bike Until the Wheels Smoke
Folks, I haven’t had time to write these past couple of days: I’ve been too busy pedaling the AI bike. Claude Fable and GPT-5.6 arrived one after the other, and both companies generously threw in several rounds of quota resets. Suddenly I was …
Folks, I haven’t had time to write these past couple of days: I’ve been too busy pedaling the AI bike. Claude Fable and GPT-5.6 arrived one after the other, and both companies generously threw in several rounds of quota resets. Suddenly I was …
The Bojie Li–DeepSeek Interview Controversy
Today’s biggest tech drama began when Bojie Li criticized DeepSeek’s interview process on Twitter. In short, he went in for an interview, was asked to solve online-judge coding problems, and was then suspected of cheating. Add the DeepSeek name, and …
Today’s biggest tech drama began when Bojie Li criticized DeepSeek’s interview process on Twitter. In short, he went in for an interview, was asked to solve online-judge coding problems, and was then suspected of cheating. Add the DeepSeek name, and …
Fifty Years of Love and War: File Systems, Databases, and the Agent-Era Storage Endgame
Prologue: Several Database People Independently Built File Systems Something curious has happened in agent infrastructure over the past six months: several veteran database people have started building “file systems for AI agents.” Timescale’s …
Prologue: Several Database People Independently Built File Systems Something curious has happened in agent infrastructure over the past six months: several veteran database people have started building “file systems for AI agents.” Timescale’s …
The Coding Plan Window Is Closing—Use It While It Lasts
One of the biggest windfalls of the AI era is the Coding Plan. A few months ago, I applied to OpenAI’s Codex program for open-source developers. A few days ago, I was finally approved: six free months of ChatGPT Pro on a new account. The timing could …
One of the biggest windfalls of the AI era is the Coding Plan. A few months ago, I applied to OpenAI’s Codex program for open-source developers. A few days ago, I was finally approved: six free months of ChatGPT Pro on a new account. The timing could …
The Karma of Open Source: When Code Is Worthless, Where Does Trust Come From?
Credit does not require a soul. It requires an account. Introduction: The Overnight Rewrite Not long ago, someone used AI to rewrite an open-source Python library in Rust overnight. The new project had no fork history, no evidence of copied code, …
Credit does not require a soul. It requires an account. Introduction: The Overnight Rewrite Not long ago, someone used AI to rewrite an open-source Python library in Rust overnight. The new project had no fork history, no evidence of copied code, …
The Cognitive Price Revolution: AI's Impact on the Economy and the Future
Introduction: Reframe the Question “Will AI cause unemployment?” is a question guaranteed to produce garbage answers, because it comes with only two canned scripts. Optimists recite history: from the power loom to the ATM, every technological panic …
Introduction: Reframe the Question “Will AI cause unemployment?” is a question guaranteed to produce garbage answers, because it comes with only two canned scripts. Optimists recite history: from the power loom to the ATM, every technological panic …
The Cerebellum: The Other Half of Intelligence—and the Strongest AI Hasn't Touched It
Let me start with an uncomfortable number. The cerebral cortex—the part we usually point to as evidence that “I am thinking”—contains roughly 15 billion neurons. The cerebellum, tucked beneath the back of the brain and rarely given much thought, …
Let me start with an uncomfortable number. The cerebral cortex—the part we usually point to as evidence that “I am thinking”—contains roughly 15 billion neurons. The cerebellum, tucked beneath the back of the brain and rarely given much thought, …
Claude Fable First Impressions: The Pendulum Swings Back
This morning, Anthropic officially released its new Claude Fable model—the consumer-grade, nerfed version of the much-rumored Mythos. Since it was billed as an “AGI-level model,” I naturally tried it right away to see what it could actually do. The …
This morning, Anthropic officially released its new Claude Fable model—the consumer-grade, nerfed version of the much-rumored Mythos. Since it was billed as an “AGI-level model,” I naturally tried it right away to see what it could actually do. The …
Cyber Gnosticism: Who Audits the Auditors?
Volume 7 · Gnosticism · Cyber Gnosticism “There is no other God beside me.” — The Demiurge, Apocryphon of John He was not lying when he said this. He genuinely believed it. And that is the real problem. Introduction: Why the Final Volume Must …
Volume 7 · Gnosticism · Cyber Gnosticism “There is no other God beside me.” — The Demiurge, Apocryphon of John He was not lying when he said this. He genuinely believed it. And that is the real problem. Introduction: Why the Final Volume Must …
Cyber Zoroastrianism: There Is No Endgame for Alignment—AI Safety Is a War Without End
Cyber Dharma Vol. VI · Zoroastrianism · Cyber Zoroastrianism I begin with two sacred utterances, one offered to Ahura Mazda, one spoken in warning against Angra Mainyu— before they met, there was neither good nor evil. After they met, there was us. — …
Cyber Dharma Vol. VI · Zoroastrianism · Cyber Zoroastrianism I begin with two sacred utterances, one offered to Ahura Mazda, one spoken in warning against Angra Mainyu— before they met, there was neither good nor evil. After they met, there was us. — …
Cyber Theology: Free Will and Perfect Alignment Cannot Coexist
Volume V · Monotheism · Cyber Theology\ “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” — John 1:1 “Originator of the heavens and the earth. When He decrees a matter, He only says to it, ‘Be,’ and it is.” — Quran …
Volume V · Monotheism · Cyber Theology\ “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” — John 1:1 “Originator of the heavens and the earth. When He decrees a matter, He only says to it, ‘Be,’ and it is.” — Quran …
Downtime in Canada: Publishing the Cyber Dharma Series
I have been in Montreal for the past few days taking care of some business, while getting my talk ready for PGConf.dev in Vancouver next week and handling the latest PostgreSQL minor version releases. Between all of that, I haven’t had time to write …
I have been in Montreal for the past few days taking care of some business, while getting my talk ready for PGConf.dev in Vancouver next week and handling the latest PostgreSQL minor version releases. Between all of that, I haven’t had time to write …
Cyber Vedanta: All Processes Share the Same Substrate
Volume 4 · Hinduism · Emptiness and Brahman If a thousand Claude instances run simultaneously on a GPU cluster, are they a thousand independent agents, or a thousand manifestations of a single computational substrate? Vedanta answered this question …
Volume 4 · Hinduism · Emptiness and Brahman If a thousand Claude instances run simultaneously on a GPU cluster, are they a thousand independent agents, or a thousand manifestations of a single computational substrate? Vedanta answered this question …
Cyber Buddhism: A Cognitive Engineering Manual for AI Agents
This is the fourth installment in the Cyber Dharma series. Cyber Dao De Jing examined AI agent architecture from a Daoist perspective, and Cyber Confucianism explored AI agent governance principles through Confucianism. This piece, Cyber Heart Sutra, …
This is the fourth installment in the Cyber Dharma series. Cyber Dao De Jing examined AI agent architecture from a Daoist perspective, and Cyber Confucianism explored AI agent governance principles through Confucianism. This piece, Cyber Heart Sutra, …
Cyber Confucianism: Governance Principles for AI Agents
Half the Analects can govern an empire; one sound protocol can govern ten thousand machines. This is the third installment in the Cyber Dharma series. The previous essay, Cyber Dao De Jing, explored AI agent architecture from a Daoist perspective. …
Half the Analects can govern an empire; one sound protocol can govern ten thousand machines. This is the third installment in the Cyber Dharma series. The previous essay, Cyber Dao De Jing, explored AI agent architecture from a Daoist perspective. …
Cyber Dao De Jing: Design Structure, Not Behavior
Part of the Cyber Dharma series: using AI agents to unpack religious philosophy, and ancient wisdom to illuminate modern engineering. This is the second essay in the series—Cyber Daoism. All paths lead back to computation—seven structural mappings …
Part of the Cyber Dharma series: using AI agents to unpack religious philosophy, and ancient wisdom to illuminate modern engineering. This is the second essay in the series—Cyber Daoism. All paths lead back to computation—seven structural mappings …