For five years, we've debated what artificial intelligence would do to employment. Now the numbers are arriving. The early picture isn't mass unemployment or business as usual. It's something considerably more interesting: a fundamental change in what human work is worth. Well, Here We Are For roughly five years, we've had the same conversation. Will AI replace jobs? Will it create new jobs? Will productivity explode? What happens when machines can perform the cognitive labor

The next computing revolution might not be a faster laptop. It might be the realization that your laptop doesn't need to be fast at all. Every once in a while, I come across a piece of technology that makes my inner nerd sit up a little straighter. Not necessarily because it's going to change the world tomorrow. Not because somebody has raised seventeen billion dollars to disrupt an industry nobody knew needed disrupting. And certainly not because there's an AI-generated mark

Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show, Day One: Questionable engineering, unreasonable leverage, expensive boats, and the occupational hazards of being helpful. I think I may have a problem. Actually, several. The first is that I can't go anywhere without turning an ordinary conversation into a technology project. The second is that I can't recognize when I've already accomplished enough for one day. And the third, which became especially relevant on Day One, is that I have

An emergency PHP warning, another patch scramble, and a brief visit to the "I told you so" department. I've been telling people to get their businesses off WordPress for years. Now the NSA has entered the conversation. And while their advice is considerably more diplomatic than mine, "take the system offline" is a fairly strong opening statement. Two critical vulnerabilities in PHP—the software underneath WordPress and many other web applications—have triggered emergency patc

Same technology. Different experiences. Radically different realities. Why AI is advancing faster than our understanding of what it can do—and why access alone isn't enough. Two people open ChatGPT. Same interface. Same little text box. Same blinking cursor. One asks it to rewrite an email, gets something that sounds suspiciously like a corporate HR department wrote a birthday card, and concludes that artificial intelligence is mostly overhyped autocomplete. The other is orch

One coffee meeting, two AI builders, and a lesson every business owner should hear. I had coffee with my buddy Joe Sestito on October 17, 2026. Joe is one of my nerd tribe. He's building HyppoAI, and I'm building... well, you know. A little of this, a little of that, and an increasingly ridiculous collection of AI-powered things that occasionally surprise even me. Whenever we get together, the conversation tends to wander through about 47 different subjects before somebody re

The flying Roadster has landed. Everything needs thrusters now. Holy shitballs. On the night of October 15, 2026, Elon Musk and the Tesla/SpaceX engineering teams actually did it. They made the freaking Roadster fly. Not just jump off a ramp. This thing drove nearly upside down, launched into the air, rotated with clockwork precision, hovered, and landed on its wheels. Then it flew over a lineup of Teslas. I watched it live, practically speechless. My inner eight-year-old was

I've been trashing WordPress for years. Security vulnerabilities, plugin nightmares, architectural nonsense. The whole platform is a hot mess. In fact, on September 16, I published an article titled PSA: Get Your Business Off WordPress. As it turns out, that was the exact same day TechCrunch published a story about two Automattic executives who had apparently managed to turn a 33-hour corporate coup into a potential $8.15 million payday. And folks, I have to admit something.

How a 500-acre technology district in Central Florida could become a new engine of American innovation. Full disclosure: I live in Florida, and I already have a NeoCities website. So naturally, I consider myself uniquely qualified to discuss NeoCity's future. The fact that NeoCity and NeoCities have absolutely nothing to do with each other is a minor administrative detail. But jokes aside, something genuinely interesting is happening in Central Florida. And the more I look at

First Adobe. Then Microsoft. Now Autodesk. AI is eroding the economics of proprietary software, and the whole thing is getting wonderfully absurd. Well, this escalated quickly.. Between September 30 and October 7, 2026, a developer used AI to recreate seven of Adobe's major applications and released them as open source. Photoshop. Illustrator. Premiere Pro. Lightroom. After Effects. InDesign. Acrobat. Free. No Creative Cloud subscription. No annual licensing commitment. No ca

Remember when Uber showed up and the taxi industry realized it had a problem? Wall Street just had a similar moment with SpaceX. And this time, the disruption is coming from orbit. There's something fundamentally ridiculous about walking around in 2026 with a supercomputer in your pocket, having conversations with artificial intelligence, watching rockets land themselves backward on floating platforms in the ocean, and still losing your cellphone signal when you walk into a p

AI may be the greatest metacognitive training wheel humanity has ever accidentally invented. There is something deeply unfair about awareness. You spend your life learning things, connecting things, trying to understand how the world works, and eventually your reward is discovering how much shit you don't understand. Then you get a little better at thinking and discover something worse: you don't completely understand how you're doing the thinking either. Metacognition is a b

Unless you're a teenager blogging about your goldfish, we really need to have a talk. This one is Andy's fault. My longtime friend Andy sent me an article this morning about another massive WordPress vulnerability with a note that essentially said: I know how much you love WordPress. Andy knows. He has personally been on the receiving end of my WordPress rant for years. A long time ago, before anybody was seriously talking about AI building entire websites for you, Andy was c

Brussels is calling for the frontier to slow down while Europe is simultaneously warning that it doesn't have enough compute, enough data centers, or cheap enough electricity to keep up. This is going well. The AI slowdown conversation has officially arrived in Europe. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen came out today supporting calls to slow frontier AI development and says she plans to bring the major labs together to talk about risk, evaluation, verificatio

"Recursive self-improvement" was frontier-lab vocabulary about five minutes ago. This morning Congress explained it on Fox & Friends and then cut to the forecast. Something happened to the AI conversation this week. Actually, everything happened to the AI conversation this week. We've had new models, ridiculous benchmarks, autonomous agents doing increasingly interesting things, cybersecurity incidents, researchers leaving frontier labs and issuing warnings on the way out, CE

A couple of days ago, we were talking about what might turn out to be the harder AI alignment problem. Not aligning the machines. Aligning us. The labs can see the risks. Researchers can raise alarms. CEOs can agree that the frontier may be moving faster than our ability to understand or control everything we're creating. And then somebody eventually asks the question that breaks the whole thing: what happens if we slow down and China doesn't? I said the national-security con

On September 6, 2026, OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki published an essay called An Alien Mind. That title alone is worth sitting with for a minute. Not because AI came from another planet. It's one of the most aggressively terrestrial things we've ever built: silicon, electricity, mathematics, human language, institutional capital, and an absurd amount of computation. But Pachocki isn't using alien as science-fiction decoration. He's trying to describe a problem. We've

I've spent a lot of time over the years building systems to organize information, which is funny because the way I actually think has never been particularly interested in being organized. My brain is less filing cabinet, more cognitive landfill. Not landfill in the useless sense. More like the place where everything gets dumped because I'm not always qualified, in the moment, to decide what is trash and what is going to turn out to be important six months from now. A weird a

I've spent a ridiculous amount of time thinking about prompts. I've written them, taught them, sold them, built prompt packs around them, and made a pretty decent amount of money doing it. At one point, "prompt engineering" was a completely reasonable description of what we were doing. The models were brittle enough that how you phrased something could materially change whether you got something useful or a pile of nonsense. Those prompt packs are all free now. They're still

This one kind of happened by accident. Not in the sense that I tripped over a soldering iron and somehow built a product, but more in the way a lot of the things I enjoy messing with tend to happen. You start with one small thing, ask one unnecessary question, then another, and at some point realize the original thing you were trying to do was just the excuse that got you through the door. The reMarkable was a gift from Rolf, which makes this whole thing funnier in retrospect