Rants:
AI is for Builders, not Operations (2026)
Operations need reliability, repeatability, and efficiency --- three things that classic information technology has that AI does not have. What business needs is not AI, but builders empowered with powerful AI tools to make their information technology systems truly great.
Soul Work (2025)
Feeding our soul inside the bleak office.
The economic problem of AI (2020)
An essay on the economic barriers to research and development in AI, despite the huge hype and real world rewards.
Fallacy of exploration (2019)
The notion of exploration in reinforcement learning is based off a false notion that we are alone in the world. We are not alone, we did not come from nothing, and if we want reinforcement learning to be successful, we must understand that basic fact.