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Every page on the site, grouped by what it is. Every page on the site, grouped by section: articles, blog, the record, the craft, and the rooms.

Every page on the site, grouped by what it is.

Articles · 28

AGI, Meaning: what the term actually claims — and why nobody agreesAGI has four competing definitions — capability, economic, autonomy, and the levels…Contextual Prompting, Meaning: why "prompt engineering" quietly died — and what replaced itContextual prompting (context engineering) defined precisely: why reasoning models and AI agents ended prompt…Critical Thinking Is the Skill of the AgeWhen machines can generate anything, the scarce human act is deciding what to…DOES AI UNDERSTAND?Both confident answers are wrong.Automated Internet Theory: what it claims, and what the evidence supportsWhy this site exists: not anti-AI, but an outlet on how the internet is reshaping — and why the automated internet…HOW AI FILMS ARE MADEAI video that looks generic is not a model problem, it is a preparation…HOW AI IS TESTEDBenchmarks, red teams, interpretability, monitoring — what each catches, what each misses, and the nine questions…HOW AN AI IS BUILTFrom sand to answer: silicon, data, pretraining, alignment, products,…How AI Fraud Actually WorksSeven specimens of AI-assisted fraud, pinned and annotated: the cloned executive, the deepfake video call, the…How AI Got Into Your Tools Without AskingFree intelligence arrived like a gift at the gates.Local or Cloud: Where Does AI Live Next?A no-sides study of local versus cloud AI in mid-2026: the roughly 3-6 month capability gap, the strongest honest…OPEN OR CLOSEDOpen weights trail the frontier by months, not years.Pages Written For Machines, Read By No OnePages written to be crawled, shops with nothing behind them, audiences that are not…Still Optimistic — but everything is about to move faster, and we need to keep upA hopeful case for the AI future - and an honest worry: change now arrives in product cycles,…The AI Glossary: sixty terms, honestly definedSixty AI terms defined in plain language as used in mid-2026: tokens, transformers, RAG, quantization, MoE,…The AI Tools Atlas: the landscape by job, not by logoThe AI tool landscape mapped by what you are trying to do: assistants, coding agents, image, video, voice,…The Automated-Internet Vocabulary: 25 termsFrom slop to model collapse to C2PA: twenty-five plain-language definitions for navigating the synthetic…The Eight Kinds of AI You Already UseEight entities live in the machine city: the Oracle-Poet, the Librarian, the Swift, the Artist, the Commune, the…The Work AI Cannot TakeWhen machine output becomes infinite and free, value moves to what stays scarce: verifiably human work -…The history of AI:1950 to todaySeventy-five years of artificial intelligence, from Turing's question to today's frontier…WHAT THE INTERNET WASNot nostalgia.WHO BUILDS AITwo layers: a handful of frontier labs, and an open-weights wave months behind…WHY AI MAKES THINGS UPNot a glitch.What AI Actually Runs On: sand, power, and heatDescend from silicon die to power grid: why GPUs, what memory bandwidth means, how a training run works, and…What AI Cannot CoverMachine content clusters around the well-covered middle, leaving gaps exactly where humans win: experience,…What AI Skills Are, and How They WorkSkills are packaged know-how an AI loads on demand; tools are the functions it can call; MCP is the open…What Stays Human: slow, imperfect, on purposeAs machines make perfect cheap and fast free, the scarce things flip: slowness,…What a Repo Is, and How Repos Actually WorkA repository is a folder with a memory.

Blog · 9

AI AGENTSAgents act instead of answering.AI AND THE OPEN WEBPublisher traffic is down about a third — and small sites lost the…AI AND WORKNot mass unemployment — the bottom rung.AI COMPANIONSThey reduce loneliness in the short term.AI IN SCHOOLSAI detectors falsely flagged 61.2% of essays by non-native English…ENERGY AND WATEREstimates for the water behind one AI query differ by a…HOW AI GETS LABELLEDSince 2 August 2026, EU law requires AI content to be…THE RULES ARRIVINGThe EU AI Act became broadly applicable on 2 August 2026.THE TIMELINEWhat actually happened, dated: capability, measured harms, research and law from 2022 to now — including the…

The Record · 13

Deepfake Self-DefenceVoice clones need about three seconds of audio.FOLLOW THE RECORDThe record is revised four times a year.HOW MUCH IS BOTSMore than half of web traffic is automated — 53% in 2025 per Imperva and…HOW TO ASK AI WELLNot prompt tricks that expire with the next release.HOW TO SEARCH NOWMost searches now end without a click.HOW TO SPOT AI WRITINGNine reliable signals of AI-generated text, why detector tools cannot be trusted to accuse anyone, and what to…PRESS AND CITATIONFor journalists and researchers: descriptions, citation formats, reuse terms, and a standing offer to correct…SPOT FAKE IMAGES & VIDEOWhat still gives away AI-generated images, video and cloned voices in 2026 — and why the visual tells are…State of the Automated InternetHow much of the internet is machines? A quarterly, fully sourced snapshot: bot traffic share, AI-generated…THE HOUSEHOLD GUIDEPrintable.USING AI AT WORKWhat should never go into a prompt, what to disclose, and what you stay answerable for when the output…WHAT HAPPENS TO WHAT YOU TYPERetention, training, human review and whose data it legally is — four separate questions people collapse into…WHEN NOT TO USE AINine cases where reaching for AI makes the outcome worse, from someone who uses these tools…

The Craft · 10

Agent GuardrailsFour lines that belong in every agent prompt.AutomationsChains that run without you — what to log, what to make reversible, and what should never run…Bad, Good, GreatThe same goal written three ways.Model GuidesAround twenty models and studios with their optimal prompt format — ChatGPT Image 2.0, Seedance, Kling, FLUX,…Negative Prompt LibraryCopy-ready negative prompts by use case.Prompting AgentsPrompting a chatbot and prompting something that acts on your machine are different skills.Prompting Cheat SheetsFour reference sheets — image, video, LLM and AI studios.Reverse PromptingFeed any AI output back to a model and reconstruct the prompt behind it — then improve on it.Skills, Repos and MCPWhat these three actually are, explained without assuming you write code.The Prompt VaultThirty-nine production prompts for image, video, LLM and pre-production work — each tested, dated, and…

Rooms · 6

Fragment Zero: the assembled recordAll twenty-two recovered fragments, assembled in order for the first time: four voices, one timeline, from the…NO ONE WROTEMOST OF WHATYOU SAW TODAYHalf the web isn't human anymore.THE ARCADEFive playable exhibits: drive the synthetic city, contain the copies, keep the human lineage alive, and test…THE INSPECTOR — put the text under glassAn interactive instrument: drag a magnifying glass across a suspect document and watch the tells ignite -…The Sprawl: neon rain cityNeon Rain City 3D — a real-time procedural neon-noir city with wet reflective streets, volumetric fog and…WALK THE TERMINALA walkable 3D overworld of the Stay Human record: ninety station gates glowing in the fog, grey husks drifting…