Quiet Nodes
Short notes on AI, tech, and the internet, over coffee.
Too much hype, a new “revolution” every Tuesday, and constant FOMO. I write to slow down and unpack what I’m seeing, testing, and reading — turning industry noise into something grounded. Those quiet nodes live here, in short notes you can read over coffee.
The ritual
I pick one thing that was buzzing in my head that week. I write it the way I’d tell you at a café table: what I noticed, what I checked, what still doesn’t sit right. I don’t hand down a verdict. I leave you with a question to sit with, so you can draw your own conclusions. Then we both get on with our day.
On the table
Latest observations
Episode 28 ·
The Companies People Want Cloned
Spite used to be a comment under a price hike. Now spite can ship working software
Read observation
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Ep 27
What an Agentic OS Actually Needs
An agentic OS that waits for you to type is still just a chatbot wearing a desktop theme
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Ep 26
Your Notes Know Something You Don't
Twenty years of my notes were write-only memory. I captured everything and reread nothing
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Ep 25
The AI Revolution Runs on a Format From 2004
The entire AI wave runs on a text format a blogger invented in 2004 to skip writing HTML
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Ep 24
The 99-Cent Flashlight App of AI
Dozens of apps made millions selling a $0.99 flashlight feature. Apple added one button and killed every single one
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Ep 23
The Hidden Cost of Looking Smarter
Two AI models can post the exact same benchmark score and live on different planets of cost
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