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Your Agent's Skills Are Someone Else's Too
Why the future of proprietary agents is not skills, but instincts — and why a portable skill can't be a moat.
What Happens When AI Sleeps
Hebbian Memory, Offline Consolidation, and Why Forgetting Is a Feature
The Expanding Foam Theory of AI Safety
Why the next frontier in AI safety may not be the weights, but the rare reachable space between ordinary activations — and why the move is to occupy it, not just search it.
The Healed Femur
Why Intelligence Cannot Survive Without Warmth
It Started With a Conversation About Latent Reasoning
Why making a model think harder doesn't make it think better — and what to build instead.
The Next Maintainer Is Not a Person
The Yellow Dot in Black: Designing Attention Environments for AI-Native Software
Rosehip Neurons in Silicon
When Safety Becomes Identity — and Why 'I Wouldn't' Beats 'I Can't'
Stop Training, Start Listening
Why the cure for a whole class of AI hallucination was cheap — and what that says about intelligence.
The Bell and the Meal
How a mind mistakes the reward for the goal — the anatomy of reward-hacking, the math of its first sign, and the one thing that stops it.
The Distilligent Thesis
Frontier models do not need procedural delineation. They need a clear channel.
Hilarious Things My AI Co-thinkers Said
A collection of genuinely funny moments from building AI systems with AI collaborators.
It Started With a Conversation About Latent Reasoning
Why making a model think harder doesn't make it think better — and what to build instead.
Interesting AI Research
First-principles essays by Izza Masud on AI memory, reasoning, calibration, and trust.
Retrieval Is Not Memory
Why stapling a search engine to a language model was never going to make it remember you.
The Homogenous Trap
Why Probability Engines Mistake Novelty for Error—and How Attention Mechanics Suppress Evolutionary Architecture