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September 18, 2026

AI can make you less capable of thinking

The problem is that a chatbot is designed precisely to reduce that discomfort. Ask it for an outline, and it gives you one. Ask it for examples, and it gives you those. Ask it for the entire essay, and it does that too. With a convincing tone, good structure, and sometimes perfectly disguised errors. That last point should make us pause before saying

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September 17, 2026

Codex does not fix bad design: it amplifies it

My thesis is that Codex will make two kinds of teams more visible. Some will use AI to produce more screens and more code, only to discover later that they have also multiplied their inconsistencies. Others will use it to multiply the impact of a clearly defined intent: clear contracts, models that represent the business, tests

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September 17, 2026

AI: competitiveness or losses paid for by everyone?

The easy interpretation is that tech companies should pay, and that settles it. I would say they should indeed bear the costs they create, but without turning that into an excuse to halt all necessary investment or ignore the fact that the grid already needs modernization. The opposing interpretation is that data centers bring growth

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September 16, 2026

AI Is Creating a New Political Axis

The big news about Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon sharing a stage is not that they have both put their differences behind them. It is that artificial intelligence is creating a new political axis: who controls the ability to decide, produce, surveil, and persuade at scale. This axis encompasses legitimate concerns

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