One company built a product by taking other people’s work without asking. The same company, in the same stretch of headlines, is furious that someone took its work without asking. A federal judge gave final approval to Anthropic’s $1.5 billion settlement, the largest known copyright settlement in United States history, brought by authors who said […]

I ran a task through Microsoft Copilot Cowork last week that cost me $13. I was shocked. What did I asked Cowork to do? At Creaspark, we use the EOS business management framework, as each quarter we host a quarterly business review (QBR). Our QBR’s run about eight hours, and we capture the whole thing […]

I have spent twenty-eight years building things on computers, and I have watched the “this is the end of developers” headline come around more than once. So when the latest round of articles proposing the end of developers because of AI started landing, I read them, and continue to read them, with interest rather than […]

Why the Real Danger Has Nothing to Do With AI Waking Up If you’ve been following along with parts one and two of this series, here’s the quick recap. Part one: tl;dr; AI is not conscious. It’s a brain in a jar surrounded by plumbing. It lacks the substrate, continuity, stakes, and emergence that seem […]

A Better Way to Talk About What AI Actually Is, and Where the Trajectory Might Lead If you missed part one of this series, I’d encourage you to start there. tl;dr; I made the case that AI is not conscious. Not because AI is dumb (it isn’t), but because it lacks the substrate, continuity, stakes, and […]