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This Essay was a One-off Bullshit Job for a Computer

Sub-Agents is Bullshit Jobs for Computers

22 hrs ago • Ben Mathes

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Fat Prompt, Thin Client, Joined Backend

How to avoid ending up renting your own expertise back from a vendor and your own data back from a database.

May 8 • Ben Mathes

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YOLO'ing Everything into AI is like Promiscuous Sex and May Hit an Applied Philosophy Wall

Garry Tan is out here releasing v0.10 of his “GBrain,” using simple text files for databases and letting OpenClaw sort of YOLO its way through figuring…

May 8 • Ben Mathes

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Values Guide Your Metrics.

What Moneyball and current tech layoffs teach you, in contrast

May 1 • Ben Mathes

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Meta-Modernism, from the word itself

most everything I've read out there is bollocks

Nov 14, 2025 • Ben Mathes

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In the Long Run, I Hope One of Keyne's Memes Would Die

There is a specific type of smugness that appears at dinner parties when the conversation turns to the future.

Nov 12, 2025 • Ben Mathes

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The Sticky Starter Shadow: How Reputation Becomes Reality in a Consensus Culture

And how any attempt to change will *also* be graded by that consensus will just further cement you.

Nov 3, 2025 • Ben Mathes

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October 2025

The Accidental Semiotics Shuffle

Unavoidable problem of using loaded human terms as shorthand for AI mechanics, creating a semantic trap where narrow tech definitions are later mistaken…

Oct 30, 2025 • Ben Mathes

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