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Writing on AI, in public

Two dozen essays and posts on AI trends, education, and the geopolitics of technology (2023–2026).

2026
AI Skills Demand vs CS Unemployment
February 26, 2026 · LinkedIn Post
Contrasts weak entry-level CS hiring with rising demand for AI-fluent workers who can combine technical judgment with domain expertise.
IPHS at 50: A Decade of Human-Centered AI at Kenyon College
February 26, 2026 · LinkedIn Post
Marks the humane-studies program's anniversary by connecting Kenyon's interdisciplinary tradition to a decade of human-centered AI teaching.
2025
Coding's Crisis: Why CS Grads Struggle While AI Expertise Creates Opportunities
November 23, 2025 · LinkedIn
Argues that AI changes the value of programming from routine code production toward problem framing, systems judgment, and applied expertise.
AI's Shift from the Narrow Technical to the Universal Human
August 23, 2025 · LinkedIn
Frames AI as a broad human and institutional challenge rather than a narrow engineering specialty owned by technical teams alone.
Email to a Former Student: Big Ambitions to Work in AI, Growing Moats, and A Strategy for New College Graduates
August 12, 2025 · LinkedIn
Offers practical career advice for graduates entering AI by building durable moats across tools, taste, projects, and human context.
Mentoring Metawork: Creating Your Digital Twin to Automate Knowledge Work
February 19, 2025 · LinkedIn
Explores how personal AI systems can capture mentoring patterns, automate recurring knowledge work, and extend expert attention.
Email: AI Consciousness Research
February 2, 2025 · LinkedIn
Uses an email format to think through AI consciousness research, evaluation limits, and the difference between behavior and experience.
The Future of Programming & Human-Centered AI
January 30, 2025 · LinkedIn
Connects programming's future to human-centered AI: clearer intent, better evaluation, and collaboration between builders and domain experts.
2024
AI is Not the New Oil and the Unavoidable Geopolitics of Technology
May 16, 2024 · LinkedIn
Pushes back on simple resource metaphors for AI and emphasizes infrastructure, compute, talent, regulation, and geopolitical leverage.
OpenAI is Trolling Google (and the rest of the AI world)
May 15, 2024 · LinkedIn
Reads competitive AI demos as strategic signaling, market positioning, and pressure on rival labs as much as product disclosure.
The AI Battle Royale (Part I)
March 11, 2024 · LinkedIn
Surveys the contest among major AI labs, platforms, and business models as capability jumps reshape the competitive landscape.
Do You Want Fries with your AI Automation?
February 28, 2024 · LinkedIn
Looks at automation through mundane service-work examples to ask where AI adds value and where workflows still need people.
Which is the Bigger AI Breakthrough: OpenAI Sora vs Gemini 1.5?
February 16, 2024 · LinkedIn
Compares video generation and long-context models as different kinds of progress: expressive media capability versus reasoning workspace.
AI Outgrows the Lab
January 17, 2024 · LinkedIn
Describes the move from isolated model demos to organizational deployment, governance, education, and social consequences.
2023
Critiquing the Tea Leaves of the Google Gemini Paper
December 25, 2023 · LinkedIn
Interprets Google's Gemini paper as a technical document and strategic signal, separating benchmark evidence from product narrative.
What AI in 2023 says about AI in 2024
December 20, 2023 · LinkedIn
Uses the shocks of 2023 to forecast the next year of AI adoption, competition, institutional response, and public expectation.
The Magic and Misdirection of the Gemini AI Duck Demo
December 19, 2023 · LinkedIn
Examines how polished AI demos create wonder, hide scaffolding, and shape public perception of model capability.
The Future of AI is Wide Open (Source)
December 16, 2023 · LinkedIn
Considers open-source AI as a force for diffusion, experimentation, governance tension, and competition with closed frontier systems.
Redefining Sliced Bread or Struggling to Fill Little Brother's Shoes?
December 7, 2023 · LinkedIn
Evaluates a new AI release against prior expectations, asking whether it represents a leap forward or an uneven catch-up move.
AI in 2024: Prometheus Unbound or the Golem of Prague
December 5, 2023 · LinkedIn
Frames AI's near future through competing myths of liberation and uncontrolled creation, with governance and responsibility at stake.
Why Focus on Transformer Architecture?
November 3, 2023 · LinkedIn
Explains why transformer architecture matters for understanding modern AI capability, limits, scaling behavior, and design tradeoffs.
A First for Higher Education to Meet the Challenge of AI
October 19, 2023 · LinkedIn
Makes the case that higher education needs integrated AI learning across the liberal arts rather than isolated technical training.
The Evolution of AI
October 16, 2023 · LinkedIn
Traces AI's progression from earlier systems to modern generative models, emphasizing how capability shifts change social questions.
Playing Catchup in the AI Race
September 28, 2023 · LinkedIn
Looks at the race dynamics around AI adoption and competition, especially how institutions respond after falling behind.

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