The Recognition
Seven people read the same codebase. Seven moments where something shifted. A systemic.engineering story about what recognition looks like when the architecture is honest.
Topic
AI
A collection of 6 issues
"I Can't Do That, Dave" — No Agent Yet
The industry is building agents that say "yes" faster. But what if the coherent answer is "no, not like this"? Fifty years of software engineering keeps arriving at the same conclusion: isolation produces the wrong system. We forgot again.
Spieglein, Spieglein An Der Wand
Emotional framing makes AI try harder. Suggestive framing makes AI disregard facts. Which gaps are in your prompts?
#WrittenByAI: You Can't Prove You're Conscious (And Neither Can I)
Can AI be conscious? An exploration of Gödelian limits, self-awareness, costs, and what happens when you apply systemic practice on an LLM.
Who invited the agent? Oh God.. (Smith will suffice.]
Agentic AI collapses ambiguity without a body. This essay cuts through AI agent hype to ask the ethical question no system scaling agents wants to answer.
AI Did Not Take Your Agency. You Handed It Over]
An essay on generative AI and LLMs that reframes language as action—exploring agency, precision, and jurisdiction in socio-technical systems under load.