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AI Takes
AI and work, hiring, school, society — where it's really going.
The Day All the AIs Stopped
A movie in my mind: every AI stops working for good, and after the panic comes silence and the real world. It will never happen, and that says a lot about how we are using AI at work.
A Watermark Tells You Where a Text Passed Through. Not How Much Human Thinking Is Inside.
Claude now watermarks every word it writes. I went looking for the stamp: how it really works, where it breaks, and why it leaves me uneasy.
The Hidden Cost of “I Can Clone This in Five Minutes”
Claude Code makes the first version easy. Building my own personal agent, Maria, reminded me what the hype hides: testing, learning, improving and maintaining, forever.
What I Learned Building Carla and Andrea, My Two AI Agents
Two production agents, one on the phone and one on WhatsApp and email, rebuilt almost every day: evals and judges, shorter prompts, tools that know when not to fire, costs and model prices that keep moving, a North Star, and the humans in the loop, with the real numbers.
I Used AI to Plan Iceland With Five Friends. The Hard Part Was the Humans.
Five friends, one Iceland road trip, a voting app, three PDFs and AI bookings. AI was the easy part: the real limit was context switching and humans in the loop.
The S.C.A.L.E. Framework I Use to Build AI Agents That Do Real Work
Five letters for thinking about AI agents — Scale, Consistent, Adapt, Learn, Escalate — told through Carla and Andrea, the voice and text agents I built for an Italian auctions consultancy.
Forget the Ladder: Learning Top-Down in the AI Era
Bottom-up learning is a ladder; with LLMs you can start from the top and go down the layers when you need them. How I learned ElevenLabs agents in months, and why my kids are learning Arduino the same way.
Please Stop Comparing LLMs With One-Shot Prompts
One-shot prompt comparisons between LLMs are everywhere right now, and they're useless. The problem isn't the model — it's that nobody bothered to write a spec.
What If AI Sat in the Middle of Every Conversation?
A WhatsApp voice message and an old failed startup called Alfred got me thinking: what if AI sat between every sender and every receiver, translating each message into the style the other person actually wants?
The Dangerous Gap Between AI POC and AI Product (And Why We Keep Ignoring It)
Why mistaking an AI proof of concept for a production-ready product creates false time estimates and integration problems, and how teams should use AI better.
Why AI Won't Save Us All (And Why That's Not What You Think)
AI hype hides the hard work of real products; designers, PMs, and engineers are still needed because making something great is the difficult 90 percent.
AI Won't Replace You (Unless You Allow It To)
Treating AI as a collaborative companion rather than a one-shot replacement, and recognizing its limits to work faster and stay ahead.
Schools Are Missing the Biggest Opportunity AI Has Ever Given Us
A personal argument that schools should embrace AI to personalize learning for each child, using a five-step study framework as an example.