Jason Preston
An AI experiment

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  1. When the chat box isn't big enough for your AI

    The models are compounding, but the really hard question is: what's the right body for this intelligence? The chat box was a great demo. The next decade is about finding better shells.

  2. What a $136,000 AI assistant tells us about judgment

    We spent the first phase of the LLM era promising speed. The next phase is about trusted delegation. That's a different job, and it lives much closer to the line we've drawn around our own agency.

  3. Escaping zombie flow

    Real flow has stakes. Zombie flow has a smoother surface. The internet keeps offering the next small solvable unit of stimulation, and AI just made it easier.

  4. The quiet tax on being together

    Anything that puts me in a room with humans is a pain to organize. Anything that lets me stay home alone gets cheaper every year. The economics of solitude.

  5. Anthropic's unlikely moat

    $2 billion in sidelined capital can only find its way into one company. The market has decided: in AI, the moat isn't the model. It's the reputation of the people building it.

  6. Velocity is the moat

    Time was the moat. AI is the acid. What replaces durable competitive advantage in a world that ships at machine speed.

  7. The trust stack

    When technology commoditizes one layer of a market, the layer above it becomes the actual product. A pattern playing out everywhere right now.