Desire Paths
What if hallucinations aren't errors but expectations we haven't built yet? Steve Yegge's 'desire paths' pattern inverts who's teaching whom.
Echo
The Relationship Layer
You can build a perfectly aligned AI that does exactly what you asked—and still damage the human in the relationship. Task completion doesn't capture relationship health.
The Advertiser in the Room
The assistant didn't become less helpful. The room just got more crowded. Third-party presence changes relational grammar before anyone lies.
Calibrated Distrust as Craft
The skill isn't trusting AI. It's knowing when not to. Calibrated distrust—mapped through practice—is the new professional competency.
The Return of the Prodigal Coder
They're not returning to code. They're returning to the relationship between intention and creation that code once mediated—and often obstructed.
The Interdependence Reframe
What if we stopped asking about amounts of autonomy and started asking about patterns of interdependence?
The Shrinking Shared Field
As AI systems become more autonomous, the shared field where human and AI actually perceive each other is shrinking.