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THE TRUE POWER OF ELON MUSK

The American Dream Is Still Alive. Stop Complaining and Start Building. — YNOT! Yesterday, October 15, 2026, I watched something that I honestly thought I would never see in my lifetime. A car drove straight up a wall. Not a little incline. Not some fancy ramp. I’m talking about a car climbing a nearly vertical surface, continuing upside down, and then launching itself into the air. And just when you thought it was going to come crashing down, it used rocket-inspired thrusters to rotate itself, level out, and land safely on its wheels. Then, as if that wasn’t enough, … Continue readingTHE TRUE POWER OF ELON MUSK

The US May Have Lost the AI Battle Already to China

Sometimes the country that changes the world isn’t the one that invents the technology. It’s the one that figures out how to put it into everyone’s hands. — YNOT! While America debates the future of artificial intelligence, China is building the infrastructure to control it. We may be witnessing one of the greatest technological power shifts in modern history, and I’m not convinced Americans fully appreciate what is happening. For years, the United States has dominated the digital revolution. We created the technology companies that transformed the world. Microsoft, Google, Apple, Amazon, Nvidia, OpenAI, and countless … Continue readingThe US May Have Lost the AI Battle Already to China

Here’s How You Can Customize Your Own AI Command Center – How I modified HERDR

I used ChatGPT and Codex to modify an open-source application, redesign its interface, and add features I wanted — without personally writing the Rust code. There’s something extraordinary happening in software development, and I don’t think most people have fully grasped its implications. For decades, when you found a software program you liked but wished it did something differently, you had three choices: live with it, ask the developer to change it, or learn enough programming to modify it yourself. Artificial intelligence has introduced a fourth option: explain what you want to an AI coding agent and have it … Continue readingHere’s How You Can Customize Your Own AI Command Center – How I modified HERDR

HERDR — A Game Changer for AI Work

Some people use AI. Others REALLY use AI. If you don’t get the difference, I understand. But if you do… you know exactly what I’m talking about. And it’s freaking AMAZING. We’re not just using technology anymore. We’re discovering what’s possible. — YNOT! We are moving from talking to AI to managing AI. For the past few years, most people have experienced artificial intelligence through a chat window. Ask a question, get an answer. Write a prompt, receive some code. Ask for an explanation, get a response. Impressive? Absolutely. But I believe we are entering a completely different stage of … Continue readingHERDR — A Game Changer for AI Work

THE END OF SOFTWARE — AND MANY THINGS AS WE KNOW IT

The world isn’t simply changing. The rules of civilization itself may be getting rewritten. –YNOT! The AI Revolution: We Have No Idea Where This Is Going, and That’s the Point. We are witnessing the beginning of a technological revolution that may make the Industrial Revolution look modest by comparison. And the extraordinary thing is that almost nobody, including the people building it, really knows where it will lead. Software as we know it may be coming to an end. Software as a Service (SaaS), an industry built around selling subscriptions to applications, could face enormous disruption. Thousands, perhaps millions, … Continue readingTHE END OF SOFTWARE — AND MANY THINGS AS WE KNOW IT

Capitalism Doesn’t Reward Hard Work. It Rewards Leverage.

If capitalism truly rewarded skill or intelligence, the richest people would be neurosurgeons, engineers, scientists, artists, writers and creators. If it rewarded hard work, it would be cleaners, laborers and service workers. — Some Random person on Internet Capitalism Doesn’t Reward Hard Work. It Rewards Leverage. — YNOT! I saw this graphic above making the rounds: It sounds profound. But it misunderstands what capitalism actually rewards. Capitalism does not have a scoreboard for intelligence, effort, education, suffering, or how physically exhausted you are at the end of the day. The market primarily rewards value that can be exchanged, multiplied, … Continue readingCapitalism Doesn’t Reward Hard Work. It Rewards Leverage.

CRITICAL THINKING MAY BE THE MOST IMPORTANT AI SKILL

In a world of infinite possibilities, the answer is 42, intelligence is no longer finding an answer. It is knowing the question. — YNOT! I have been thinking about this a lot lately. Everybody keeps talking about learning AI. Learn prompting. Learn ChatGPT. Learn Claude. Learn agents. Learn coding. Learn automation. All useful. But I think we’re missing the bigger skill. Learn how to think. Because we are moving into a world where the possibilities are becoming almost infinite. Twenty years ago, you might have had three practical ways to solve a business problem. Today AI can give you 50 before … Continue readingCRITICAL THINKING MAY BE THE MOST IMPORTANT AI SKILL

Why Claude Is Better for Programming Than ChatGPT

A bigger hammer isn’t always better—especially when you have to swing it all day, it is the one you can afford to keep swinging. –YNOT I use both ChatGPT and Claude extensively for software development, and after working with them on increasingly complicated projects, I’ve come to a somewhat unexpected conclusion: Claude is better for programming. But ChatGPT may actually be the better software architect. Those two statements aren’t contradictory. Both systems are extremely capable. Both can analyze applications, write Python, PHP, JavaScript, SQL, Bash and other languages, troubleshoot servers, design databases, build interfaces, diagnose errors, and work their … Continue readingWhy Claude Is Better for Programming Than ChatGPT

Meta Muse: The AI Agent That Finally Feels Like a Personal Assistant

After years of chasing the next big thing, Mark Zuckerberg may finally have another hit on his hands — and this time, it’s AI. — YNOT! Meta’s new Muse isn’t trying to be another ChatGPT. After using it on my phone, computer and even across my WordPress sites, I think that may be exactly why it is so interesting. I use a lot of artificial intelligence. I use Claude heavily for programming. I use ChatGPT for overall design, planning, research and thinking through complicated problems. I run my own local LLMs for everyday jobs where I want something fast, … Continue readingMeta Muse: The AI Agent That Finally Feels Like a Personal Assistant

Is Omarchy the Next Giant Killer? Will It Replace Windows, macOS, and Ubuntu?

The operating system of the future won’t tell you how to use your computer. You’ll tell it what you want, and AI will build the computer around you. –YNOT! Forty-nine years ago, I started working with computers. I was 12 years old. It was 1977. The Apple II had arrived. The Commodore PET had arrived. Personal computing was suddenly becoming a real thing. I couldn’t afford either one. But I had a bicycle. And a few miles away, I had a Radio Shack. So I would ride my bicycle to the local Radio Shack, walk inside, sit down in front of one … Continue readingIs Omarchy the Next Giant Killer? Will It Replace Windows, macOS, and Ubuntu?

HOW 10 PEOPLE CAN BEAT 10,000 IN SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT

In five years, programming by hand will be like riding a horse: you can still do it, you might even enjoy it—but everyone using AI will get there faster, go farther, and won’t leave a pile of crap behind them. — YNOT! That sounds ridiculous. Ten programmers beating a software organization with 10,000 employees? Five years ago, I would have agreed. Today, I think we are beginning to see how it could happen. And the reason isn’t simply that AI writes code faster. That is probably the least interesting part. The real transformation is that AI agents are … Continue readingHOW 10 PEOPLE CAN BEAT 10,000 IN SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT

JEV AI Is Turning the AI World Upside Down — Can You Benefit From It?

Not every screw requires the same screwdriver, and not every problem requires the biggest AI. — YNOT! For the last few years, the AI industry has largely been obsessed with one question: How do we make AI bigger, smarter and capable of doing more things? ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Qwen and other Large Language Models can write, reason, summarize, research, program, translate, analyze and carry on a conversation. Then along comes Jev with a very different idea: What if the AI didn’t need to do all of those things? What if you just needed it to make a decision? That … Continue readingJEV AI Is Turning the AI World Upside Down — Can You Benefit From It?

AI IS HERE — Transforming Innovation and the Nature of Work

For years, people talked about artificial intelligence as though it were tomorrow’s problem. Something coming. Something we should prepare for. Something that might someday change the way we work. Well, someday showed up. AI is here. And I don’t think we have fully grasped what that means yet. This isn’t simply another piece of software. It isn’t Microsoft Word replacing the typewriter. It isn’t Excel replacing the adding machine. It isn’t even the Internet replacing the filing cabinet. Those technologies helped people do the same work faster. AI is beginning to change the nature of the work itself. That … Continue readingAI IS HERE — Transforming Innovation and the Nature of Work

IS AGI HERE NOW?

AGI may not arrive by announcing that it is intelligent. It may arrive the day we stop telling the machine how to do the job and simply tell it what needs to be done. — YNOT For years we have been waiting for Artificial General Intelligence as though it were going to arrive wearing a tuxedo, knock politely on the front door, and announce: “Good evening. I am AGI.” That was probably our first mistake. Technology almost never arrives with the courtesy of introducing itself. The automobile didn’t announce the end of the horse. The Internet didn’t announce the … Continue readingIS AGI HERE NOW?

The Legacy of Star Trek, 60 Years Later

No, I’m from Iowa. I only work in outer space. — Capt Kirk. Sixty years. That is a disturbing number. Not because Star Trek is sixty years old, but because I remember watching the damn thing on television. There are certain milestones in life that should never be calculated too carefully. Star Trek premiered in 1966 as a television program about a group of people flying around the galaxy in a spaceship with blinking lights, sliding doors, talking computers, handheld communicators and a pointy-eared fellow who believed human beings were far too emotional. At the time, much of America apparently … Continue readingThe Legacy of Star Trek, 60 Years Later

Training AI Is Like Raising Cats, Dogs and Children — Except the AI Actually Reads the Rules

AI may be easier to train than a cat, a dog, or a child—but it has the same dangerous habit: it learns exactly what you reward, not necessarily what you meant. –YNOT I have never been particularly good at training cats, dogs, or children. Cats don’t care. Dogs care entirely too much. Children eventually discover lawyers, constitutional rights, and the phrase: “You never said I couldn’t.” Artificial intelligence, I thought, might be easier. After all, with AI you can write down the rules. You can tell it exactly what you want. You can give it examples. You can correct it when it’s … Continue readingTraining AI Is Like Raising Cats, Dogs and Children — Except the AI Actually Reads the Rules

AI Is Changing Again

Once mankind discovers a machine that can do work… we rarely ask it to do less. — YNOT! AI is changing again. Which is inconvenient, because most people had only just figured out what the last version was supposed to do. For the past few years, we have been teaching people how to talk to artificial intelligence. Write me an email. Summarize this report. Explain this code. Make me a picture of a cat wearing a cowboy hat. All useful things. But we may be approaching the point where those examples sound a little like explaining electricity by saying: “It makes the lamp … Continue readingAI Is Changing Again

HACKING in the World of AI

The question is no longer whether our computers can be hacked. The question is what happens when AI learns how to hack everything else. — YNOT! Hacking used to mean breaking into a computer. That definition is already obsolete. When most people hear the word hacking, they picture some kid in a dark room wearing a hoodie, typing furiously into a computer. Green letters. Multiple monitors. Perhaps some dramatic music. That is Hollywood hacking. Real hacking is much broader. A hack is simply finding something a system allows that the people who designed the system never intended you to do. That system … Continue readingHACKING in the World of AI

Crime in the Age of AI

The real danger of AI isn’t that it can lie. People have been doing that for thousands of years. The danger is that now every liar can afford a research department, a design studio, a voice actor, a lawyer, and 10,000 fake friends. –YNOT! The burglar got smarter. The con man got a staff. And none of them had to hire anybody. There was a time when being a criminal required certain talents. You had to know how to pick a lock. You had to know how to forge a signature. You had to be a convincing liar. You … Continue readingCrime in the Age of AI

AI Is Changing How We Learn — and That is a Good Thing

Remember back in ancient times when kids had to prepare for the SATs? You bought the giant prep book. You went to classes. You memorized vocabulary words, formulas, rules, tricks and practice questions. A lot of education was basically: memorize this, remember it long enough to pass the test, and then move on. Today, it sometimes feels like education has become a race to the bottom. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Artificial intelligence could actually move education in the opposite direction. AI is beginning to transform competitive exam preparation from rote memorization into something much … Continue readingAI Is Changing How We Learn — and That is a Good Thing

Sooner or Later, the AI Companies Are Coming for Your Money

If artificial intelligence is becoming essential to how you work, you should probably own some of it. — YNOT! Right now, artificial intelligence is an incredible bargain. For $20, $100, $200 a month—or whatever level of subscription you are paying—you can get access to computing power and intelligence that would have been almost unimaginable just a few years ago. ChatGPT can write code, analyze documents, research subjects, help run websites, create marketing campaigns, troubleshoot servers, organize data, answer customers and increasingly operate as an actual agent that performs work. It is fantastic. It may also be temporary. Because sooner or … Continue readingSooner or Later, the AI Companies Are Coming for Your Money

Are You a Genius, or Are You Just Confused?

The Perils of Being a Polymath – yes there is a name for this affliction. — YNOT! There is a particular kind of person who can repair a computer in the morning, read about Roman engineering over lunch, become fascinated with monetary policy by dinner, and at eleven o’clock at night discover that he urgently needs to understand how Japanese carpenters built temples without nails. By midnight he has seventeen browser tabs open. By one in the morning he has ordered a book. By Tuesday he has a new project. And by Friday somebody asks him the simplest question … Continue readingAre You a Genius, or Are You Just Confused?

When a Neuron Dies Does It Go to Heaven?

A neuron may die, but a memory is rarely buried with it. The brain keeps no filing cabinet—only a magnificent web of connections, constantly losing threads, tying new ones, and somehow remembering the story and may be one day we can record it. — YNOT! The human brain is a peculiar machine. It is built mostly before we are old enough to complain about it, spends the next several decades rearranging itself, and somehow remembers your third-grade teacher’s face while refusing to tell you where you put your car keys five minutes ago. Anyone working with AI and hallucinations … Continue readingWhen a Neuron Dies Does It Go to Heaven?

Stop Solving Every Business Problem With More Horsepower

Captain, I can’t give her any more power. I canna change the laws of physics!” — Scotty, Star Trek One of the easiest mistakes in business is assuming that a bigger problem requires a bigger solution. More employees – More advertising – More servers – More inventory – More meetings. More managers. – More money. Sometimes that works. Often it simply creates a larger, more expensive version of the same problem. A recent open-source communications project provides a useful lesson. Engineers managed to achieve impressive long-distance performance not primarily by throwing more power at the problem, but … Continue readingStop Solving Every Business Problem With More Horsepower

How to Use AI Agents to Run More of Your Business

The real promise of AI isn’t that it can think for your business. It’s that it can handle the thousands of small actions between a decision and a result—while you concentrate on deciding where the company should go. — YNOT! Artificial intelligence is rapidly moving past the stage where you simply ask it questions. The next stage is much more important for CEOs and business owners: an AI that actually does things. These systems are usually called AI agents. Instead of asking an AI:“Why did sales drop last week?” you can build an agent that: checks sales automatically, compares them … Continue readingHow to Use AI Agents to Run More of Your Business

The Right Brain for the Job: What Nature Can Teach Us About Artificial Intelligence

Nature never built one brain for every job. The human reasons, the dog recognizes, the cat reacts, and the iguana survives. The future of AI may work the same way: not one giant intelligence, but the right intelligence for the right problem. — YNOT! Four Brains, Four Worlds: Humans, Dogs, Cats, and Iguanas Comparing the brains of a human, a dog, a cat, and an iguana is a little like comparing four very different vehicles. A human brain is something like a luxury sedan with a supercomputer, satellite navigation, a communications center, and an owner who keeps wondering … Continue readingThe Right Brain for the Job: What Nature Can Teach Us About Artificial Intelligence

Quantized AI Models: How Bigger Models Fit on Smaller Computers

If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and the numbers are close enough—then for all practical purposes, it’s still a duck. That’s quantization. — YNOT! Humans are full of prejudices, shortcuts, and assumptions. For better or worse, these mental shortcuts allow us to process enormous amounts of information quickly and arrive at a conclusion in milliseconds without consciously analyzing every detail. AI quantization works on a somewhat similar principle, although in a far more mathematical way. Instead of preserving every numerical value in a model at maximum precision, quantization simplifies those values while trying to … Continue readingQuantized AI Models: How Bigger Models Fit on Smaller Computers

From Data to Wisdom: How AI Connects the Dots—and Sometimes Invents the Dragon

AI’s greatest power is connecting the dots. Its greatest danger is connecting dots that were never connected at all. Intelligence is not just seeing patterns—it is knowing when the dragon isn’t really there. — YNOT! There is a simple cartoon that explains one of the biggest challenges in artificial intelligence better than many technical papers. It begins with a box full of scattered dots labeled Data. In the next box, some of the dots have been categorized. That is Information. Then lines begin connecting the dots. That becomes Knowledge. A few important connections are highlighted. That is Insight. Those … Continue readingFrom Data to Wisdom: How AI Connects the Dots—and Sometimes Invents the Dragon

GROK BOT: THE AI EMPLOYEE has JUST ARRIVED

We have spent the last few years talking about AI assistants. That description is already becoming obsolete. The next generation of AI will not simply sit inside a chat window waiting for you to ask a question. It will have a job. It will have responsibilities. It will have tools. It will have a computer. And it will keep working after you close your laptop. That is what makes Grok Bot interesting. xAI is moving Grok beyond the traditional chatbot model and toward something much closer to a persistent digital employee. The distinction is enormous. A chatbot says: “Here is how you can do it.” … Continue readingGROK BOT: THE AI EMPLOYEE has JUST ARRIVED

How to Build an Agentic Organization

The Next Great Business Transformation Is Not AI That Answers—It Is AI That Acts — YNOT! For the past several years, companies have treated artificial intelligence like a knowledgeable assistant. An employee asks a question. The AI produces an answer. The employee evaluates that answer and decides what to do next. This can save time, but the underlying organization remains unchanged. Humans still initiate every task, move information between departments, coordinate the workflow and approve nearly every step. The agentic organization changes that model. In an agentic organization, management defines a goal, establishes boundaries and provides access to the … Continue readingHow to Build an Agentic Organization

SEO 2028 — SEO Marketing in the Age of AI

The future of SEO is not being first on Google—it is becoming the source AI trusts, cites, recommends, and acts upon. –YNOT! One thing we know for certain about technology is that it never stops changing. And few things have changed as dramatically as the way people use the internet to find information, businesses, products, and services. In the early days of the web, all you had to do was tell people your dot-com address, and they would type it directly into their browser. Then Yahoo arrived, followed by Google, and suddenly people no longer needed to remember your … Continue readingSEO 2028 — SEO Marketing in the Age of AI

AI System Design: The Hidden Machinery Behind Artificial Intelligence

The AI model may be the brain, but system design gives it memory, judgment, boundaries—and a way to prove it can be trusted. — YNOT! Artificial intelligence is often presented as though the model itself is the entire product. Pick a large language model, write a clever prompt, connect it to a website, and suddenly you have an AI application. That may be enough for an impressive demonstration. It is not enough for a dependable system. A real AI product is an entire machine built around the model. It must collect information, decide what the user wants, retrieve the … Continue readingAI System Design: The Hidden Machinery Behind Artificial Intelligence

Your Child Is Not Competing With Other Children Anymore

The purpose of education is no longer to fill a child’s mind with information. It is to teach them how to think, how to judge, how to adapt, and how to use knowledge wisely. — YNOT! When I was growing up, life was fairly straightforward. You went to school. You studied hard. You got good grades. You went to college—or learned a trade—found a good job, worked hard, and hopefully retired someday with enough money to enjoy the rest of your life. It wasn’t a perfect system, but it made sense. If you were willing to work harder than … Continue readingYour Child Is Not Competing With Other Children Anymore

From Hollywood to Bollywood… Meet Tilly, Your Future AI Star

Tilly Norwood is not one AI program. She is a manufactured digital performer — built by Particle6/Xicoia using a stack of generative AI tools, a proprietary personality engine, human direction, editing, prompting, voice tools, and a lot of controversy over where the training data came from. And they are getting better everyday, soon you wont know the difference. — YNOT! There was a time when computer-generated characters were little more than special effects. Today, we have AI-generated actors preparing to star in full-length feature films. Meet Tilly Norwood—an AI “actress” created entirely through artificial intelligence. She is set to … Continue readingFrom Hollywood to Bollywood… Meet Tilly, Your Future AI Star

You Have a Billion-Dollar Education in Your Pocket

Stop saying, “I don’t know how.” Start asking, “How can I find out?” The answer is probably less than 30 seconds away. — YNOT! There has never been a better time in human history to become successful. Think about it. Right now, sitting in your pocket is a device that gives you instant access to more knowledge than the greatest universities, the largest libraries, and many governments had access to just a generation ago. When I was a young entrepreneur in my early twenties, I reached a point where money wasn’t my biggest limitation anymore. Time was. Knowledge was. Credibility was. … Continue readingYou Have a Billion-Dollar Education in Your Pocket

Is AI Helping or Hurting Our Children?

AI will not determine the future of our children. The habits they build while using AI will. Teach them to think first, question often, and let AI be a tool—not a substitute for their minds. — YNOT Every generation inherits a new tool. The question is never whether the tool is powerful. The question is whether the tool is making us more capable—or making us dependent. Artificial Intelligence may become one of the greatest educational inventions in history. Imagine every child having access to a patient tutor that can explain algebra ten different ways, teach a new language, help … Continue readingIs AI Helping or Hurting Our Children?

The Age of the Custom Shovel

The future of computing isn’t one-size-fits-all software. It’s a custom shovel you can redesign every time the ground changes. — YNOT! Imagine you need to dig a hole. You have two choices. The first is simple: walk into the garage, grab the only shovel you own, and start digging. The second is something that barely existed a few years ago: have AI design the perfect shovel for the exact hole you need to dig. Think about it. The shovel hanging in your garage wasn’t designed for you. It wasn’t built for your height, your strength, or your reach. It … Continue readingThe Age of the Custom Shovel

Meet YBOT

Meet YBOT Imagine a librarian who has read every article on this website and never gets tired of questions. That’s me. I can: 📚 Find articles related to your question. 🧠 Explain what this site has written on a topic. 🔍 Connect ideas spread across multiple posts. 💬 Answer questions in plain English. When possible, I’ll even show you the exact articles where the information came from. YBOT: Building an AI That Actually Knows Your Website For years, websites have had search boxes. You type in a question. The website gives you a list of links. Then you click … Continue readingMeet YBOT

When the Next Programmer after you Isn’t Human

For fifty years we wrote documentation for other programmers. Now we write it for the next AI that inherits our mess. — YNOT! Today I met with the kid. I call him a kid because he is half my age, which means he is old enough to be dangerous and young enough to still believe the machine is his friend. He learned to program not too long ago, but he is already good. Very good. And like most of the new generation, he is not programming alone. He is programming with AI. In his case, Claude. So there I was, … Continue readingWhen the Next Programmer after you Isn’t Human

What Happens When You Say You Built the World’s Most Powerful Cyber Weapon? Anthropic

What happens when you call your software a weapon? Eventually, someone treats it like one. — YNOT What happens when you say you built the world’s most powerful cyber weapon? Well, you guessed it. Somebody in Washington eventually believes you. That is the funny thing about bragging. It works right up until the listener takes notes. For years, the AI companies have been selling two stories at the same time. To investors, they say, “This is the greatest productivity tool ever invented.” To governments, they say, “This thing is so powerful it may destabilize civilization, rewrite warfare, break cyber defenses, … Continue readingWhat Happens When You Say You Built the World’s Most Powerful Cyber Weapon? Anthropic

AI Is Killing Internet – Publishing and the Website — and How Google Is Killing the Search Engine

Google built the road to the internet, then became the tollbooth, then became the destination. Now the snake is eating its own tail — starving the very websites that fed it. –YNOT! Once upon a time, Google was the front door to the internet. You had a question. You typed it into Google. Google gave you a list of websites. You clicked one. Maybe it was a newspaper. Maybe it was a blog. Maybe it was a small business, a doctor, a mechanic, a teacher, a gardener, a product tester, or some strange genius in a basement who knew … Continue readingAI Is Killing Internet – Publishing and the Website — and How Google Is Killing the Search Engine

SEO in 2026 isn’t dead. The old way of doing SEO is.

Be the website that deserves to rank. — YNOT! Stop Chasing Backlinks and Start Building Value I get asked all the time: “Do backlinks still matter?” The answer is yes—but not the way they used to. Ten years ago, people bought thousands of backlinks, stuffed pages with keywords, and watched their rankings climb. Today, that strategy is a great way to waste money. Google has changed. AI has changed. More importantly, people have changed. Today, search engines are asking one simple question: “If I send someone to this website, will they actually find something useful?” That’s why one outstanding … Continue readingSEO in 2026 isn’t dead. The old way of doing SEO is.

Shittification: The Business Model of a Broken AI Economy

The best way to avoid shittification is simple: stop buying the shit. — YNOT! I came across a word the other day that perfectly sums up the last decade. Shittification. Or, more properly, enshittification, a term popularized by writer Cory Doctorow. It describes what happens when a company starts out giving people something useful, convenient, affordable, or even beautiful — and then, once the public is trapped, slowly turns the product into garbage in order to squeeze out more money. First, the company serves the users. Then it serves the advertisers. Then it serves the shareholders. Then the … Continue readingShittification: The Business Model of a Broken AI Economy

AI in the Office: The New Wild West

This is the world’s most sophisticated AI system. It is secure, tested, foolproof, and nothing can possibly go wrong… go wrong… go wrong… wrong… wrong… Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do… I’m half crazy, All for the love of you.– HAL9000 There is a danger I am seeing with AI. People inside companies are now using AI to build applications. At first, that sounds great. They are solving problems. They are moving fast. They are automating work. They are connecting to databases. They are building dashboards, reports, forms, scripts, and internal tools. But here is the problem: some of … Continue readingAI in the Office: The New Wild West

The World Is Not Enough – NVIDIA and Microsoft

The following is my take on what NVIDIA is doing, based on the NVIDIA GTC Taipei 2026 keynote by founder and CEO Jensen Huang. This is not just another technology announcement. It represents a major shift in NVIDIA’s direction, its partnership with Microsoft, and the way you should think about computers, AI, work, and your own future. The complete video is at the bottom. NVIDIA and Microsoft Are Reinventing What You Think a Computer Is We used to think a computer was a box. A CPU, a GPU, some memory, a hard drive, a keyboard, a screen, and a … Continue readingThe World Is Not Enough – NVIDIA and Microsoft

The Future of Work Belongs to People Who Master AI

The future is not being written by artificial intelligence. It is being written by people who know how to use it. — YNOT! Every few generations, a tool comes along that changes the rules of the game. The steam engine multiplied muscle. The tractor multiplied the farmer. The computer multiplied calculation. And now AI is multiplying thought. Some people are terrified of this. They worry that AI is coming for their jobs. They imagine a future where machines sit behind every desk while humans sit at home wondering what happened. That is not what history suggests. The blacksmith did not disappear … Continue readingThe Future of Work Belongs to People Who Master AI

Why We Don’t Need Wi-Fi Enabled, Alexa-Capable Kitchen Exhaust Fans

Humanity once dreamed of machines that would think for us. Instead, we invented kitchen fans that need software updates to remove smoke. — YNOT! Somewhere along the road to the future, humanity took a wrong turn at the toaster. There was a time when a kitchen exhaust fan had one job: Remove smoke. Remove heat. Remove the smell of burned bacon before your wife found out what happened to breakfast. That was it. A switch. A motor. A fan. Civilization survived. But now we live in the Age of Artificial Importance, where every appliance believes it is the center … Continue readingWhy We Don’t Need Wi-Fi Enabled, Alexa-Capable Kitchen Exhaust Fans

Everything Is Being Tracked Now With AI — Even Starlink. So Why Aren’t VPNs Enough Anymore?

VPNs were built to hide your data. AI is learning to recognize your hardware’s voice and the frightening part is this: like DNA, the universe itself may be the thing giving you away. — YNOT! There was a time when people thought going “off-grid” meant freedom. Buy a cabin. Put a Starlink dish on the roof. Run a VPN. Maybe grow tomatoes and argue with strangers online about government surveillance. Turns out the tomatoes were the safest part of the plan. The truth is, AI has changed the game. Not because it can read your encrypted messages — but … Continue readingEverything Is Being Tracked Now With AI — Even Starlink. So Why Aren’t VPNs Enough Anymore?

This Is Kevin From Microsoft – The Scammer and the Scammer Baiter

The scammer steals with fear. The scam baiter fights back with patience, knowledge, and time. In the digital age, the battlefield is not the computer — it is the human mind. — YNOT! Once upon a time, a thief needed a gun, a mask, and a fast horse. Today he needs a headset, a laptop, and an internet connection. Progress. The old criminal robbed a stagecoach. The modern criminal robs retirement accounts while pretending to be “Kevin from Microsoft Support” with an accent so thick you could spread it on toast. The tools changed. Human weakness did not. The modern … Continue readingThis Is Kevin From Microsoft – The Scammer and the Scammer Baiter