The Ambition Issue
AI & Ambition
Not efficiency. Not speed.
The real promise of AI is that we can
stretch further than ever before.
Cover Story
"We can stretch further, experiment more, build deeper, fix the pain points that we otherwise wouldn't have time for — rather than just build the same roadmap a bit faster."
There's plenty of talk about AI driving operational efficiency — doing the same job with a smaller team. But what about ambition? A few playful weekend experiments on this very blog — a scroll-animated reading indicator, a fully AI-art-directed magazine frontpage — reveal something bigger: agents don't just make us faster, they make us bolder. Tasks that would never fit a roadmap or a busy schedule suddenly become possible on a whim, from a phone, between things.
Read the full article →Natural pacing through human accountability
Holding people and companies accountable for the harm their AI systems cause can create a natural pace for development, without treating technology as beyond human responsibility.
Does the price of intelligence matter?
DeepSeek's cheap, good-enough models mark a tipping point where intelligence becomes ubiquitous and almost free, splitting the market between a frontier battle for SOTA and an open race for near-free intelligence.
Pretext and Donald Knuth
Two typographic changes to my blog, inspired by Cheng Lou's pretext library and the Knuth-Plass text justification algorithm.
Series
The AX
Dispatches
A year-long exploration of Agent Experience — from coining the term to tracking its transformation of the software industry.
