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AI:GREEN I haven’t posted anything for a few months - lots going on with the money job, vacation, art projects etc. - but the main reason was that I was unhappy with the format; I’d describe the format as “blog post ghostwritten by Claude”, and it felt un…

Round four.

This is a shitpost if you have any issue with it, and a proposal for a conference talk if you’re willing to pay at least travel expenses and a bottle of champagne.

Round three.

Disclosure first: I am not diagnosed with ADHD.

Back for round two.

This is the companion piece to a short story about losing the plot at a fictional Berlin AI startup.

In which a year passes and the founder, for the wrong reasons, does some of the right things.

In which a year passes and the narrator does not, in any dramatic sense, escape.

In which a year passes and the narrator does not, in any meaningful sense, refuse.

The espresso machine at Cogentiv.ai is a twelve-thousand-euro Slayer with a custom brass drip tray that Malte had engraved with the company mission statement.

In March and April I gave a two-part workshop on AI coding agents for a German software and security firm.

I’ve been writing a policy for AI-assisted development at an open-source project, and somewhere between “who’s responsible for code nobody read line by line” and “what happens when review capacity can’t keep up with production,” I realized I wasn’t writing

There’s a genre of tech journalism that Karl Bode calls “CEO said a thing journalism”: a CEO makes a prediction, the press reports it as news, and nobody comes back twelve months later to check whether it was true.

I’ve been working on an AI policy for a client’s software project recently, and I needed a way to express something that kept coming up in conversations: not whether AI was involved in producing something, but how much human judgment went into the result.