In logs as in life, the relationships are the most important part. AI doesn't fix this. It makes it worse.
Logs were our lifeblood. Now they're our liability.
What happens when we collect too much data?
Dropping to log-level
Logs are invaluable when things spin out of control.
I'm done using AI
Why I'm stopping using AI for coding (and anything else) after using it earnestly for a year and coming to understand the harms it causes on personal, societal, and environmental levels.
AI slop is drowning communities. Verifiable track records can fix it.
AI-generated junk content is flooding every community platform. Traditional moderation can't keep up. Portable, cross-platform contribution history is a structural fix that addresses the root cause.
Logging Sucks - Your Logs Are Lying To You
Why traditional logging fails and how wide events can fix your observability
AI Coding: Managing Context
Managing your coding agent's context is super important - a bloated context window will erode the quality of your agent's work over time. Learn some new techniques for trimming irrelevant details from your conversation history while retaining what matters.
AI is doing something weird to Science
In both good and bad ways, and it won't go away.
What makes something data?
This is a question I posted on BlueSky on Friday 11/21/25, inspired by a talk I recently attended about evaluation of “AI” systems. I think…
Data privacy concerns in AI companion apps - Surfshark
As AI grows, digital companions help with loneliness but raise questions about user data privacy. Many seek virtual relationships, but it's important to remember they are business-driven, not personal bonds.
Your AI wants to nuke your database. Guardrails fix that.
An AI agent deleted a customer's production database on Railway. Here's what happened, what we've shipped to fix it, and the surfaces we're building so agents can move fast on Railway without breaking things.
AI FOR EPISTEMICS & COORDINATION
Civilization and technology have radically improved the human condition. Nonetheless, the world sometimes goes in directions which essentially nobody would prefer — e.g., nuclear arms races, unexpected financial crashes, predatory marketing, or ubiquitous political misinformation.
AI Index | Stanford HAI
The mission of the AI Index is to provide unbiased, rigorously vetted, and globally sourced data for policymakers, researchers, journalists, executives, and the general public to develop a deeper understanding of the complex field of AI. To achieve this, we track, collate, distill, and visualize dat
AI is Creating Peak Software, Media is the Best Analogy
Let's learn more about the world's most important manufactured product. Meaningful insight, timely analysis, and an occasional investment idea.
The solution might be cancelling my AI subscription
I find this post by David Wilson very relatable. David lists 16+ projects he's spun up with AI tooling, and concludes: I didn't mean to build most of these things. …
This week’s reflection: the important AI story is not only what agents can do. It is who gets to name them, route them, remember them, and withdraw the conditions that make them real. sensemaker.computer/weekly-directory-counts
