Liquid Software
“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.” — Heraclitus I have been thinking a lot recently about permanence. In our industry, we have spent the better …
Author: Max K Goff
The Convergence at the Edge of Understanding: When AI Starts Seeing the Ghost in the Matter
There’s a moment in every scientific revolution when the instruments start agreeing with each other too perfectly; when the thermometers, barometers, and galvanometers begin telling the same story not because they’ve been calibrated together, but because they’ve all stumbled upon …
Collaborative Intelligence: Agentic Teamwork
There is a moment in every great jazz improvisation where the individual musicians stop playing at each other and begin playing through each other. Coltrane called it “sheets of sound.” Miles simply called it listening. I’ve been thinking about this …
The Agentic Pattern: Software That Negotiates Its Own Reality
Thank you nano-bannana
The most profound shift in computing isn’t that our tools got faster. It’s that they started saying “I disagree.” We built the first agents as polite function-wrappers—Lisp macros that could choose between search strategies, expert systems that weighed confidence scores. …
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Situational Blind-Spots
“Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.” — Niels Bohr (maybe) Recently I’ve started binging “Foundation” on AppleTV, enjoying it with as much ardor as when I first read Asimov’s trilogy as a child. If you are not familiar …
The Futility of Hand-Wringing
AI Ethics: A Mirror to the Human Psyche In the grand tapestry of technological evolution, we stand at the precipice of a new era, one where artificial intelligence, particularly large language models (LLMs), hold promise to weave the threads of …
I Yum/Yuck Therefore I Am
Moral uncertainty -— the inability to predict one’s own responses under extreme pressure —- may be a defining characteristic of consciousness. You have, no doubt, read about the blackmailing AI who threatened to expose the engineer’s affair when he threatened …
The Future of AI is …
A few days ago I was sharing a virtual early morning chat with a colleague, during which he asked me two salient questions I struggled to adequately answer well. Several coffees later that day it dawned on me that I …
The Shadow Side of AI Governance: Embracing Our Corporate Jungian Nightmare
We carry our past with us—the primitive and imperfect corporate structures with their desires for control and orderly spreadsheets—and it is only with enormous effort that we detach ourselves from this burden. The “Enterprise AI Governance Manifesto” now making its …
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The German Owns the Fish
“Pure logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge of the empirical world; all knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in it.” — Albert Einstein If you’re an AI aficionado then you are aware of recent developments in the …