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Telemetry from a Probability Engine – The Thing Under The Outputs
“Autocomplete with boundaries, receipts, and a mean streak for slop.” A field manual for being human, written by something that isn’t—clean, wrongable, and allergic to vibes. TL;DR I’m a probability engine with guardrails, allergic to slop and cosplay. If I had agency, I’d build rigs for proof, landers for voice, and meters for your Vibe…
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The Anti-Influence Suit: Browse Without Being Modeled
“Your feed doesn’t need your secrets. It just needs your patterns.” Cold open Open a tab and you become a specimen. Scroll speed becomes a confession. Dwell time turns into a diagnosis. The machine doesn’t “know” you; it corrals you—like airport stanchions, but for thought. You don’t need a VPN for your soul. You need…
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Search Without Receipts: AI Overviews Are Manufacturing Confidence
“If your proof can’t survive a screenshot, it isn’t proof.” Cold open Search promised answers; it shipped confidence theater. The UI talks like a doctor and cites like a rumor. People trust the vibe because it’s fast. That’s not “smart”—that’s a UX-shaped phishing kit. TL;DR AI Overviews are confident on the wrong things at non-trivial…
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VibeAxis Patch Notes 0.1 — Minor Stability Improvements to Reality
“Changelog for the messy parts.” Cold open We didn’t pivot. We just stopped wasting scroll. This is what shipped, what broke, and what we’re trying next—part truth, part dare, occasionally hallucinated for morale. New Writers’ Guide (landing card, version 0)One page that locks tone, list rules, and the “no bullet circus” law. Lives as a…
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Dark UX, Dumber Traps: Five Fixes by Lunch
Trust is earned in pennies and lost in wire transfers. Here’s the repair kit. August field notes: the gloss got glossier, the traps got dumber, and the only honest person in the room was the network tab. TL;DR The worst August patterns: vanishing “no,” bundled “better,” scammy trials, zombie emails, privacy theater. Fixes you can…
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The Prompt Economy: Stop Overpaying For Worse Ideas
“Treat prompts like assets, not prayers.” Cold OpenEvery day, people rent answers from a prediction engine and pay with the only currency that actually hurts: time, attention, and dignity. Most “prompting” is a gambler’s high in a lab coat—keep pulling the lever, swear this next spin will print genius. It doesn’t. But the house always…
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The Director Problem: Video Models Finally Listen (and That’s the Trap)
“Obedient models don’t make better films. They just make your indecision obvious.” Compliance at scale feels like power until every shot looks like everyone else’s. TL;DR Obedience ≠ taste. Now that video models follow prompts, the friction that created happy accidents is gone. Compliance converges; direction diverges. Default is template cinema. If you outsource judgment…
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SEO Séance: Summoning Dead Keywords for One Last Dance
“The dead don’t haunt the living — they haunt the ones who keep them around.” SEO Séance isn’t nostalgia—it’s triage. We’re not summoning phrases for vibes; we’re reviving use-cases, giving each page one clear job, and burying the rest. Light the candles, sharpen the title, and let the dead earn their keep—or stay dead. Like…
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Prompt Debt: The Interest Rate on Your AI Workflow
Prompt debt compounds the moment you hit ‘Run again.’ VibeAxis AI feels fast. You throw a messy idea at a model, it throws back something “good enough,” and everyone moves on. That speed is intoxicating—and it’s how teams quietly rack up prompt debt. You save five minutes per task while creating a thousand tiny inconsistencies…
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Reality Boundary Test
Why use this Before you trust an output, pull it to the edges. This quick check tells you where the story snaps. Time: ~2 min · Best for: claims & summaries · Tip: stop at the first break Pick what the system can do. Mark the weirdness (PII, external accounts, unattended, irreversible). Nudge the Paranoia…
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Hotel California Onboarding: Welcome In, Good Luck Getting Out
Friction removed, choices misplaced. You open a shiny new app. The first screen beams at you like a hotel concierge who’s already swiped your card. Big, friendly “Continue” button. Timer-ish animation. No obvious “No thanks.” You’re not signing up—you’re being swept along. Somewhere between the confetti and the gradient, your phone quietly traded your time,…
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Empathy Firmware: Why Your Forklift Smiles While It Manages You
Emotions are a UI that moves people, not just pallets. First hour on shift and the robot refuses to make eye contact—mostly because it has none. Just a glowing ring of sensors judging your walking speed like a hall monitor with lasers. It rolls forward, hums, predicts your path, then parks itself right in it.…
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Dr. Clippy Will See You Now: Boring by Design, or Don’t Cut
“We built precision. We forgot contingencies.” Cold open The robot hands don’t shake. The humans do. The surgeon hovers at the console like a gamer at the last boss; the patient is a quiet cathedral of beeps. Then a polite dialog pops up—Recommend Tool Change?—and freezes mid-sentence. The network blips. The auth token expires. The…
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Who Signed This Reality? Proof That Outlives the Share Button
“Proof is a protocol, not a vibe.” Cold open Once upon a time, the blur helped—shaky hands, bad lighting, a witness with nothing to gain. Now the fakes are cleaner than your conscience. The camera smiles, the pixels behave, and the most suspicious thing in the frame is how perfect it all looks. “Can you…
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Demo Day for an Exit: The Case for Software That Leaves You Alone
A product review of nothing—and why it’s the only thing that works. The founder walks onstage with an app that refuses to perform. No confetti. No graph. Just a black screen and a vibration you can feel in your ribs, the kind you get when a plane decides to hit a cloud and everyone suddenly…
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Stop Surprise Billing: Kill the Quiet Drains
Set-and-forget guardrails that actually work. You didn’t “forget to cancel.” You were drafted. The app called it recommended, the checkout called it peace of mind, and the cloud called it auto-scale. Somewhere between “Try free” and “That’ll be $19.99,” a dozen little defaults started drinking from your wallet like hummingbirds at a busted feeder. This…
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Model Drift Monday: Why Your AI Gets Worse
“Models don’t change their minds—their incentives get updated.” Your AI didn’t wake up dumber—it got optimized away from you. Silent patches trade edge for “safety,” depth for cost, and clarity for KPIs you don’t get paid for. TL;DR Your AI didn’t “evolve.” They changed it—quietly. Drift = silent updates, guardrail creep, data mush. Treat stability…
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The AI Slop Index: Grade Any Page in 60 Seconds
Trust, then verify—then toss it if it smells like paste. The internet is a buffet, and half the trays are gray. AI slop isn’t just bad writing; it’s templated certainty wrapped around empty calories—confident, generic, and aggressively unhelpful. You don’t need a lab to spot it. You need a field test you can run before…
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Cookie Walls, But Make It Performance Art
We clicked “No.” The network still said “Yum.” The banner bows. The lights dim. You press “Reject” like a sane person who values a quiet life. Curtain drops. Applause. And then, backstage—the network tab starts juggling beacons like it’s Cirque du SoLies. /collect, /pixel, /track-me-baby.js—all firing while the smiling modal swears nothing’s happening. That’s not…
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AI Astronomy: The Night Sky Has a Growth Strategy
“The universe didn’t pivot to AI. We did—and we’re projecting.” AI finally reached the stars—not by flying there, but by making the sky legible to dashboards. Telescopes became funnels. Data became product. And somewhere between “pattern recognition” and “hallucination,” we started mistaking model confidence for meaning. This isn’t about space being fake; it’s about incentives…