Articles

• 6 min read

  For business

  The illusion of presence

  Field perspective · Part 3

  The most convincing thing about LLMs is also the most dangerous: they feel like they’re thinking. Decision-makers who confuse the illusion with the mechanism end up trusting the wrong things.

• 5 min read

  For business

  Most “good engineering” is now obsolete

  Field perspective · Part 2

  A specific category of engineering investment — the elaborate techniques built to compensate for code’s rigidity — has stopped paying for itself. Identifying which parts of a stack still need it, and which parts were over-built for flexibility that never arrived, is now one of the more valuable things a team can do.

• 5 min read

  For business

  What your company already knows

  Field perspective · Part 1

  Your company already records almost everything it says to itself. AI can now read all of it at once — and the organisations that move first will see themselves more clearly than their competitors can.