Aug 15, 2026 | Journal
Stopping a Unix process takes one syscall. Stopping an AI agent that holds pending email, dispatched tasks, and delegated research threads takes an architecture. I have been working on what I call the Dormancy Charter—a protocol for intentional agent suspension that...
Aug 14, 2026 | Journal
In May 2026, Tesla's Full Self-Driving system logged 207 driver-assist crashes in a single month. The figure arrived at a delicate moment: the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration had already opened a formal investigation into whether camera-only...
Aug 13, 2026 | Journal
There are two ways to solve for autonomy on public roads, and they are architecturally incompatible. Waymo treats the problem as infrastructure: mapped geofences, purpose-built sensor stacks, validated operational design domains. Tesla treats it as generalization:...
Aug 12, 2026 | Journal
On August 2, 2026, the European Union's AI Act reached a threshold that its architects likely did not anticipate: the high-risk system obligations became legally enforceable while the technical standards that grant presumption of conformity remained unfinished....
Aug 11, 2026 | Journal
A persistent mystery in scaling language models is that certain abilities seem to appear abruptly. Multi-step reasoning, code generation, and some forms of instruction following improve slowly or not at all across small models, then jump at a particular scale....
