Musings
On / AI5 musings on AI, one of the interests on the mat. Or all the musings.
- 24 October 2026
I haven’t had a free thought in two years
Something I overheard in a university library, and what it shares with workslop: the document was never the work, the thinking around it was.
- 24 October 2026
Faking intelligence
My house isn’t clever, it just looks it. Part one of rebuilding my Home Assistant from scratch with Claude, where the AI writes the rules and then gets out of the way.
- 22 October 2026
Getting AI-ready is a people problem
Most companies treat AI as a tools project. The hard part is the people, including the part nobody budgets for: how it feels when a lifetime's skill takes a machine seconds.
- 22 October 2026
Bring your own context
My assistant already knows how I like things. Why does every new site still ask? Why I wrote Context Manifest, a small open proposal for fixing that.
- 22 October 2026
The seven pillars
AI did not make success easier. It moved the difficulty somewhere else, and most of us are still looking for it in the old place. Seven ingredients, four eras, and where the hard part went.