A while ago, I wrote that AI needs teachers too. At the time, I was thinking mostly about context. AI can summarize, explain, compare, retrieve, and generate, but it still needs someone to decide what information it should trust, which examples matter, what policies are…
A few months ago, I wrote about why I enjoy running AI at around 20 tokens per second. At that speed, I can actually watch what’s happening. I can see where the model is going, catch it when it starts drifting, interrupt it, add something…
George Orwell wrote something in Notes on Nationalism that I keep coming back to: One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool. It is a cruel line. It is also a useful one.…
The thumb became a prompt, but the responsibility is still human. Michel Serres used Thumbelina as a metaphor for a new kind of human being shaped by the digital revolution: someone who communicated with her thumbs, moved naturally through screens, learned outside traditional institutions, and…
There is a phrase from El Eternauta that has been stuck in my head lately: “Lo viejo funciona.“ The old stuff works. Maybe it is because the past week has been miserable: cold, foggy, and rainy. The kind of weather that makes you want to…
What the panic around AI detection gets wrong about authorship, education, and human judgment I have a problem with AI detectors. Not because I think people should use AI irresponsibly. Not because I think authorship does not matter. Not because I believe students, writers, researchers,…
What the panic around AI gets wrong about talent, creative work, and the future of human judgment I started thinking about this after watching another conversation about AI and the future of Learning and Development. At first, it sounded like a very specific industry discussion.…
What migrating corporate learning from an LMS to SharePoint taught me about context, curation, and learning in the flow of work For a long time, corporate learning has followed a familiar script. A new topic appears. Someone decides that people need to learn it. A…