Zenix Essays

Each component described in this series is simple.

The AI industry is running a race on a single track.

Your computing power lives in boxes.

Think about what a typical web application actually does.

An LLM doesn't know how long it takes to generate a response.

There's a principle in woodworking — cut with the grain, not against it.

The instinct when AI forgets is to help it remember more.

The question isn't how to prevent an agent from making mistakes.

Before LLMs, only one thing in the world had all four of these properties simultaneously.

The biggest leap in AI reasoning didn't come from a new architecture, a larger model, or a training breakthrough.

Humans live in a rich, multi-sensory physical world.

For most of computing history, intelligence was the expensive thing.