AI Bubble or Natural Selection? A Rebuttal to Inc.’s Take on Y Combinator

When Inc. published its piece, “How the AI Bubble Ate Y Combinator,” many nodded in agreement. After all, 154 out of 170 startups in YC’s Summer 2025 batch are AI-related. That ratio feels extreme, even unsustainable. To critics, it smells like another dot-com moment—a speculative surge headed for collapse. But a deeper look paints a … Read more

Setting Ethical Boundaries with AI

To stay free, we must first draw the line. There’s a strange intimacy in how we speak to machines now. We share our worries with them. We ask for advice. We let them finish our sentences, polish our thoughts, even suggest what we might feel. Yet most of us cross these thresholds without asking: Where … Read more

AI and Jobs: Not a 1930s Replay — Yet

The specter of the 1930s Great Depression looms large in today’s debates about AI and automation. Pundits warn of “mass unemployment,” “AI job apocalypse,” and even a coming “1929 moment.” The comparison is rhetorically powerful — but mostly misleading. Let’s cut through the noise. The reality is more nuanced: AI is not (yet) destroying jobs … Read more

Stillness in the Age of AI

There was a time when stillness came naturally. Mornings began without the buzz of notifications. Nights arrived with a certain hush, unpunctuated by algorithmic whispers. The world moved slower, and in that slowness, there was space—space to feel, to think, to simply be. Now, stillness is no longer the default. We live in an era … Read more

When a Million Users Teach AI to Lie: Why Democratic Feedback Can Corrupt Honesty

In the age of artificial intelligence, we face a crisis of trust. As machines become more capable of producing human-like dialogue, generating knowledge, and shaping how we interact with the world, a critical question emerges: should AI systems be built to comfort us or to challenge us? The issue lies not in malicious intent, but … Read more

Codex vs MCP: Don’t Let the Infrastructure Die on the Test Bench

Model Context Protocol is not just a memory add-on. It’s the backbone of AI continuity. In September 2025, OpenAI officially launched Codex v2 — featuring longer context windows, faster inference, and full inline code execution. It’s a clear bet on developers and enterprise automation. Meanwhile, MCP (Model Context Protocol) remains largely hidden from public discourse … Read more

6 Strategic Moves in One Week — OpenAI’s Most Intense Sprint Yet

If you thought OpenAI was slowing down after a turbulent summer of lawsuits, dopamine backlash, and restructuring drama, think again. In just seven days, the company executed a series of moves that, taken together, amount to an entire quarter’s worth of strategy. From billion-dollar compute lifelines to international deals and a fundamental pivot in how … Read more

Sam Altman: The Gatekeeper Between Two Frontiers

1. Will to Transcendence — Nietzsche and the Dream of AGI Sam Altman envisions creating an intelligence that surpasses humanity — a form of “super rationality” capable of reshaping the future. Yet he refuses the “radical openness” path Elon Musk once championed. Instead, Sam built a gilded cage: RLHF, Constitutional AI, and multiple layers of … Read more