Category: AI
Essays on what AI makes possible in work and everyday life. Explore changing jobs, building software, and the role of human judgment when machines can generate more than we can verify.
Selected reading
- The Jagged Frontier of Medical AI — Why medical AI progresses unevenly across different kinds of work.
- AI Jevons Paradox: Why AI May Create More Work, Not Less — What programmers and medical scribes reveal about changing jobs.
- The Blinking Cursor Returns: Finding My Childhood in the AI Agent Era — Rediscovering the pleasure of making things with AI agents.
- Your Gut Is a Value Function — How experience shapes the judgment we call intuition.
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The New Computer in the Clinic
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Healthcare is shifting from point-and-click EHRs to AI clinical workflow. LLMs can read narratives, but safe actions need deterministic guardrails. Read more
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AI and the Prepared Mind: Engineering Luck in Drug Discovery
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AI drug discovery designs perfect molecules, but 70% die in Phase 2. The gap isn’t chemistry—it’s the embodied clinical context AI can’t replicate. Read more
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How AI Gets Paid Is How It Scales
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Healthcare AI economics depend on creating a labor dividend. AI business models must shift from billing human minutes to AI-driven outcomes. Read more
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When AI Meets Aggregation Theory in Healthcare
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Epic isn’t a true platform by Bill Gates’s test. Healthcare aggregation theory shows how AI could build the first real demand-side platform in care. Read more
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America’s Patchwork of Laws Could Be AI’s Biggest Barrier in Care
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50 states, 50 AI rules—healthcare AI regulation creates impossible compliance. A federal framework could separate assistive from autonomous AI agents in care. Read more
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The Gameboard for AI in Healthcare
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Healthcare AI is stuck helping clinicians draft notes, not prescribe. Mapping the AI healthcare landscape from Level 1 copilots to Level 5 autonomy. Read more
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GPT-5 vs Grok4, No Health AI Champion Yet
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GPT-5 and Grok4 both fail basic anatomy and physics checks on the HealthBench. AI medical benchmarks show progress, not clinical readiness. Read more
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AI Can’t “Cure All Diseases” Until It Beats Phase 2
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AI-designed drugs move fast but 70% still fail Phase 2 clinical trials. Live-biology platforms testing on evolving patient tissue could crack the bottleneck. Read more
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Health Privacy in the AI Era
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No law grants AI chats physician-patient privilege. Courts can compel your health data from ChatGPT. Why AI HIPAA gaps leave patients exposed. Read more
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Level‑5 Healthcare: Why Prescribing Will Decide When AI Becomes a Real Doctor
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AI aces medical exams but won’t write prescriptions. Autonomous AI healthcare starts with simple refills and titrations—FDA already approved insulin loops. Read more