Exploring AI, One Insight at a Time
I didn’t have a dramatic “this changes everything” moment with AI. It was more subtle than that. Back in 2018, I saw a model generate a paragraph that was… decent. Not great. A bit off in places. But a few…
The Myth of “Bigger Is Better” in AI There’s this habit in AI where people look at one number and decide everything from it. A new model comes out, the parameter count is huge, and that’s enough for people to…
There’s a moment that happens when you use AI long enough. You ask something simple, and the reply comes back… smooth. Not just correct-looking but well said. Like someone actually thought about how to phrase it. That’s usually where people…
Most people have the wrong mental model of what’s happening when they type something into an AI tool. It feels like you’re asking a system to “figure something out.” In reality, nothing like that is happening. What’s actually going on…
The strange thing about working with AI long enough is that you stop being impressed by the big stuff. Generating essays, solving equations, writing code—that part becomes normal pretty quickly. What doesn’t feel normal is when the same system trips…
The AI industry keeps asking the wrong question. Every week, another benchmark comparison floods social media: But the real production bottleneck in 2026 is no longer the model itself. It is orchestration. CTOs are spending months debating whether to deploy…
AI memory failures are not caused by hallucinations. The real problem is far more structural: modern AI systems still struggle to manage state reliably across complex workflows. The chatbot may appear intelligent in the moment, but underneath the interface, memory…
Chatbots Are Glorified Search Indexes A chatbot waits for a human to type a string. It is a strictly reactive system bound by the latency of your vector database and the context window of your chosen model. Indeed, the architecture…
Prompt engineering is dead. It was a zero-interest-rate hallucination. Indeed, the industry spent three years pretending that elegantly crafting an English sentence was a substitute for systems architecture. Now, the pivot is aggressively shifting toward autonomous agents. We are replacing…
“Black Box” Outputs Void Insurance Deployments Immediately The core failure mode during the recent underwriting assistant rollout was not a hallucinated policy limit, but a fundamental inability to satisfy the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) Model Bulletin requirements for…