Loosely formed thoughts, published anyway. Mostly about compute, robots, and the next fifty years.
We treat a bad day like a malfunction — something to patch, escape, or trade in for a mediocre one. But the discomfort isn't a bug. It might be the most instructive part of being alive.
Analog → Digital → Analog. A model that reasons brilliantly but only listens through a chat window is still just a very fast screen-worker. Prompting is a transitional behaviour.
ENIAC needed a building, a fleet of engineers and constant maintenance. Forty-nine years later, two undergraduates held the same logic in one hand. Today's hyperscale data centers are the ENIAC of the 21st century.