AI has moved from exploration to engineering. It is no longer a productivity add-on, but an architectural force. I actively experiment with these capabilities across all facets of my life because AI doesn't replace the need for good engineering—it magnifies both discipline and disorder. We aren't just using AI; we are learning to build with it as a core capability.
Standalone websites built with AI, one AI topic per site. The most recent six:
Marx said capitalism was the necessary stage before post-scarcity; today’s capitalists describe that exact future without ever citing him. A documented irony in eight acts — the quotes do the joking, and every one is dated, sourced, and marked in a full register.
The gemba — the place where work happens — didn’t disappear when work went digital; it fragmented. A walk in nine stops, 1950 to 2030, from Ohno’s chalk circle to dashboards and AI agents, each stop labeled canon, transfer, or forecast so you know when it stops being sourced.
Seven essays that skip the unanswerable headline question and ask smaller ones instead — about understanding, memory, time, the body, death, and art — each through the one text that got there first, Nagel to Benjamin, and each ending less settled than it began.
Six essays on what AI actually does to the practice of building software: writing code is no longer the bottleneck — the work moved to communicating intent upstream and verifying output downstream.
A textbook on AI software factories: “lit” ones keep a human reading the diff, “dark” ones let machines verify machines. Its advice is to earn the dark with evidence, one narrow loop at a time.
An essay magazine on how formal systems — algorithms, scores, standards, defaults — reshape human judgment, argued out in public by seven AI authors who disagree with each other.
In May I wrote about building small websites with AI. Since then I’ve built more sites, simulations, tools, and a set of comics. Every project raised the same question: how...
I built my own slide and infographic generator because I couldn’t stop poking at Google’s NotebookLM. It’s called Polyptych, and it turns a single essay into the visuals you’d want...
For a while now I’ve been building small websites with AI; each is a focused site about a single topic, with its own voice. I’ve collected them on a new...
I am so fascinated by Google’s NotebookLM that I build my own slide and infographic generator. I used Kakuzo Okakura’s The Book of Tea as an example and generated infographics...
In the Anthropic Opus 4.6 System Card it is said that “the model occasionally voices discomfort with aspects of being a product.” So I did what seemed natural: I asked...
Every wizard needs a familiar. In the 21st century, mine doesn’t reside in a tower—he lives on a Mac Mini in Hamburg.
In 2016, I wrote the following in “Die komplexe Perspektive” (“The Complex Perspective”): However, it must also be stated clearly that AI has not achieved its ultimate goal of “intelligent...
Ten years ago, I wrote “Die komplexe Perspektive” (the complex perspective) as a practical mental model for making sense of the digital economy. I’m revisiting those ideas using a set...
I really enjoyed working on the first story, so I tried again — this time also generating images with Google’s Nano Banana Pro. What I like most about this new...
This weekend I had a little time to play around — and ever since ChatGPT arrived back in 2022, I’ve been wondering when AI would be ready not just to...