AI Is Revealing Us
AI does not arrive with motives of its own. It gives institutions and people more power, then reveals what they were already willing to do with it
Read postHi, I’m Albert
I’m a Lebanese-Canadian writer and software builder in Montreal. I write about books, cities, and technology, and I build tools for understanding complicated systems.
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Essays, notes, and longer pieces
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GPT-5.6 Sol Is Too Good at Following a Bad Plan
GPT-5.6 Sol can execute almost any plan. Its weakness is knowing when the plan itself has become the problem
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AI Is a Magic Wand. Most People Are Afraid of Holding It
Think of AI like a wand in Harry Potter. You say the spell with the right intent, the right technique, the right studies — and the magic happens exactly as you
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Ordinary Things With Teeth
Coffee, books, and rain still feel like ordinary miracles to me, mostly because each one can comfort and wound in the same breath
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Tools for understanding and improving software
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BatCave Monitor
A local desktop resource-triage app for finding what is making a machine slow
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CodeStory
A local code map for files, symbols, routes, call paths, search evidence, and likely change impact
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Codex Autoresearch
A Codex plugin for bounded experiments, trusted benchmarks, keep/discard decisions, and a durable ledger
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