Checking the Receipts: July
Published 1 Jul 2026 · AI:ORANGE
What tech leaders said about AI in July 2022-2025, and what actually happened. Month four of the accountability series.
Read →Three-quarter-baked takes and things that needed saying.
A Field Guide to Accelerationist Aesthetics (or: a Conference Talk, if You're Paying)
Published 2 Jun 2026 · AI:AMBER
TESCREAL, FAGLSC, cute/acc: they look like opposites. They may not be.
Read →Checking the Receipts: June
Published 1 Jun 2026 · AI:ORANGE
What tech leaders said about AI in June 2022-2025, and what actually happened. Month three of the accountability series.
Read →What agents can do for ADHD (it's not coding)
Published 6 May 2026 · AI:AMBER
Coding agents moved tasks I'd been pushing for years. The mechanism wasn't the code. It was executive function, containment, and execution running in the same loop.
Read →Checking the Receipts: May
Published 1 May 2026 · AI:ORANGE
What tech leaders said about AI in May 2022-2025, and what actually happened. Month two of the accountability series.
Read →The Vocabulary of Getting Fried
Published 22 Apr 2026 · Getting Fried · AI:AMBER
A taxonomy of what intensive AI use does to developer cognition, bodies, codebases, teams, and relationships with the tool. Nineteen terms, with sources.
Read →Getting Fried Part 2c: Sacred Deceleration
Published 22 Apr 2026 · Getting Fried · AI:AMBER
Fiction. A year passes at Cogentiv.ai. The founder falls off a stool in Lisbon and accidentally builds something structural. One of three branches from Part 1.
Read →Getting Fried Part 2b: Feierabend
Published 22 Apr 2026 · Getting Fried · AI:AMBER
Fiction. A year passes at Cogentiv.ai and one person brakes, privately. One of three branches from Part 1.
Read →Getting Fried Part 2a: Apotheosis
Published 22 Apr 2026 · Getting Fried · AI:AMBER
Fiction. A year passes at Cogentiv.ai and nobody brakes. One of three branches from Part 1.
Read →Getting Fried Part 1: The Week I Lost the Plot at Cogentiv.ai
Published 22 Apr 2026 · Getting Fried · AI:AMBER
Fiction. A week at a fictional Berlin AI startup where the tools work exactly as advertised and something is nonetheless going wrong. Companion piece to the vocabulary post; margin notes in brackets map to terms in the cheat sheet.
Read →What the Blast Radius Leaves Out
Published 21 Apr 2026 · AI:AMBER
Two workshops on AI coding agents: one about risks to your systems, one about risks to you. The fact that these are two separate conversations is itself the problem.
Read →Three Feedback Loops That Will Eat Your Engineering Team
Published 4 Apr 2026 · AI:AMBER
Your coding agents are fast. Your team's ability to understand what they produce is not. Here's the system dynamics of why that's going to hurt.
Read →Checking the Receipts: April
Published 1 Apr 2026 · AI:AMBER
What tech leaders said about AI in April 2022-2025, and what actually happened. A monthly accountability series.
Read →TLP:AI — A Traffic Light Protocol for AI-Generated Content
Published 31 Mar 2026 · AI:AMBER
We label classified documents. We label food. Why aren't we labeling how much AI went into the code we ship and the text we publish?
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