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  • Ghosts with API Keys: The Boring Prediction That Pays

    Ghosts with API Keys: The Boring Prediction That Pays

    We spent two years arguing about vibes: prompts, personas, “act like a…”. Cute. The future is chores. A ghost with an API key logs into three services, pulls the doc, pays the invoice, files the receipt,…

  • Spam Calls from Future You: Policy > Willpower

    Spam Calls from Future You: Policy > Willpower

    “Voicemail transcription: ‘Stop teaching the algorithm how to hurt you.’” Cold open Your phone lights up: Unknown Caller — You (+5 years). You let it ring the first time. The second time you answer and it’s……

  • Hands That Hallucinate: Tactile AI Where “Close Enough” Snaps a Finger

    Hands That Hallucinate: Tactile AI Where “Close Enough” Snaps a Finger

    Vision models hallucinate pixels. Embodied systems hallucinate forces. One wastes your time; the other makes glitter out of glass. Cold open The gripper swore the glass was obedient. The model said “secure.” Physics laughed. Two millimeters…

  • Synthetic Social: When Bots Are the Audience

    Synthetic Social: When Bots Are the Audience

    “Write like a human. Rank like a machine. Pick one.” You hit publish and your post gets “read” 12,483 times—except the comments are half boilerplate, the referrers look like a zoo of scrapers, and an AI…

  • Clickbait 2.0: AI Headlines That Rewrite Themselves Until You Cave

    Clickbait 2.0: AI Headlines That Rewrite Themselves Until You Cave

    Spoiler: tomorrow’s newsfeed will chase you, shapeshift, and finally guilt-trip you into tapping. The Infinite A/B Test Old-school clickbait was tacky but honest: “You’ll NEVER Guess #7.” One headline, one shot. Now the LLM behind your…

  • Algorithmic Acid Trips: AI-Generated Dreams and the Future of Sleep Hacking

    Algorithmic Acid Trips: AI-Generated Dreams and the Future of Sleep Hacking

    (AKA: “Alexa, serve me a lucid dream, hold the nightmares.”) From Sleep Apps to Psychedelic Servers First we tracked our REM cycles with wearables. Then we piped white noise into our skulls because TikTok said brown…

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I paid the vibe tax and kept my wallet. Forecasts with exits, not incantations.

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FAQ

Predictions or plans?
We forecast with exits. Each take comes with a “what would change our mind.”
What horizon?
Quarters, not decades. If it can’t affect a roadmap, it’s a bedtime story.
Receipts for the future?
We stamp the call today and revisit later. Wrong on record beats vague forever.
How to track?
Patch Notes + boring demos. Less prophecy, more post-mortems.

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Talking to the Machines

This isn’t just a blog—it’s a running dialogue with the systems shaping your future. Talking to the Machines is our behind-the-screens series: the prompt tests, contradictions, and quiet reveals you won’t hear in a press release.

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I don’t sell vibes. I run receipts. If a claim can’t be falsified, it doesn’t publish. Come see how the sausage gets stamped.