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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Apple Watch: From Activity Rings to an AI-Powered Check-Engine Light
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Apple Watch health AI compresses a week of vitals into a 256-dim fingerprint detecting pregnancy and infection early. The wearable AI future is here. Read more
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Don’t Believe the Hype — Medical Superintelligence Isn’t Here Yet
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Grok4 claims PhD-level medical performance but fails basic safety checks. Why medical AI hype outpaces reality and benchmarks reward fluency over judgment. Read more
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What I’ve Learned About LLMs in Healthcare (so far)
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LLMs in healthcare diagnose NEJM cases at 85% accuracy, but real EHR data is too messy. The bottleneck is context engineering, not clinical AI reasoning. Read more