The Battle for the Borders: How AI and Cyber Intelligence Are Reshaping Statecraft

From Tel Aviv to Silicon Valley, a new generation of AI-driven intelligence platforms is redefining how states secure their borders. Borders are increasingly engineered systems rather than fixed geographic constraints. In practice, they now function as distributed decision environments where data ingestion, signal processing, and human judgment are tightly coupled under time pressure. The contemporary … Read more

AEO (Answer Engine Optimization): The New Entry Point of the eCommerce Buying Funnel

For years, the eCommerce funnel thrived on search engine optimization, but the era of AI discovery has ushered in a new funnel. It used to be that shoppers would put their queries into Google, browse several sites, and check multiple products as they narrowed down their choices. Today, shoppers are turning to answer engines like … Read more

Production Environment: Where AI Agent Demos Go To Die

If you’ve been anywhere near the tech world lately, you’ve felt it  –  the electric hum of the AI agent revolution. The demos are everywhere. Agents that flawlessly handle complex customer service threads, manage executive calendars across three time zones, write and debug production code. They’re slick. They’re impressive. And the money chasing them? Astronomical. … Read more

Stop Parsing Nightmares: Prompting LLMs to Return Clean, Parseable JSON

If you’re using large language models in real products, “the model gave a sensible answer” is not enough. What you actually need is: The model gave a sensible answer in a strict JSON structure that my code can json.loads() without exploding. This article walks through a practical framework for turning messy, natural-language LLM outputs into … Read more

The “Stochastic Parrot” Narrative Is Dead. Physics Killed It.

Researchers found LLMs satisfy laws from thermodynamics. That changes everything. For years, “stochastic parrot” was the intellectual high ground. Say it at a dinner party and you’d sound appropriately skeptical. Sophisticated. Not fooled by the hype. I used it constantly. It was my armor against the AI evangelists flooding LinkedIn with breathless proclamations about artificial … Read more

The Interpretation Gap: Why Capability Is Outpacing Trust, and Valuation Is Paying the Price

A systems view of how interpretation failures quietly erode trust, slow adoption and compress valuation before performance breaks. Every major AI failure story right now shares the same misunderstanding. The systems work. n The investment is real. n The talent is capable. But adoption stalls. Trust erodes. Valuations lag. What’s breaking isn’t technology. It’s interpretation. … Read more

Ranked on Google, Invisible to AI

What decision-makers need to change today to build an ecosystem of authority that holds. For years, SEO was a mostly straightforward playbook with a few tricks sprinkled in. Companies optimized their sites, adjusted metadata, and then, hopefully, climbed Google’s rankings. That approach rewarded those who knew how to tune for the algorithm. The environment has … Read more

How Astro Made My Portfolio 82% Faster to Build

I didn’t wake up one day hating Next.js. This wasn’t a rage rewrite. It was more like that quiet feeling you get when something that used to fit no longer does. My portfolio site had been on Next.js for about three years. It looked great. Custom UI, iOS-inspired design, bought-from-Figma kind of polished. But over … Read more