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A 2016 Roadmap Comes Full Circle
A perspective paper written at the end of my PhD set two targets for the next ten years — discovery and sharing. This year both moved.
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The Six-Hundred-Billion-Dollar Question: The Answer Is Not in the Price
The price of a token is collapsing and the value of AI is waiting. Both are true at once, and the reason is that metis accumulates on institutional time, not technical time.
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When Code Begins to Write Itself
Vibe coding kept the human in the loop. Loop coding takes the human out of it. What follows is not worse code but a break in comprehension — and a failure mode that looks exactly like success.
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The Infinite Game and The Last Instruction
Learning of the machine moves in three recurring motions — raising problems, solving them, and judging whether the objective is worth pursuing. We have built the first two into an engine that does not stop. The third we have barely begun.
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Gentle Problems
The observation almost every retelling of Gowers' post missed — that the lower bound of mathematical contribution has moved, and that a capability boundary runs through even the purest techne.