Where Generative AI Meets Everyday Life
Where Generative AI Meets Everyday Life
The Myth of Perfect Code Every developer dreams of writing flawless code. Clean, efficient, bug-free. But it’s a mirage. Perfect code is like a perfect circle in nature – it doesn’t exist. What we call perfect is merely an idealization,…
The Perfect Enemy of Progress We’re obsessed with getting it right the first time. This obsession is killing our ability to adapt to AI. While we meticulously plan the perfect approach to artificial intelligence, the technology races ahead without us.…
The Pattern Seekers Facts are temporary. Patterns endure. In the rush to master artificial intelligence, we’ve become obsessed with feeding our machines more and more facts. More data points. More examples. More cases. But facts alone don’t create understanding. A…
The Truth Behind AI’s “Opinions” AI doesn’t have opinions. It has patterns. This distinction matters more than most people realize. When we interact with AI, we’re not accessing a thinking mind with carefully reasoned views. We’re interfacing with probability distributions…
The Map Is Not The Territory We’re obsessed with building AI models that mirror reality. But models, by definition, are simplifications. They’re maps, not the actual territory. This fundamental truth about mental models applies equally to artificial ones. When we…
Memory Is Overrated We’ve been taught that a good memory is essential for intelligence. It’s not. In the age of AI, memory is becoming increasingly irrelevant. The ability to store and recall information was once the hallmark of human cognitive…