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This is a place to understand how modern AI actually works — the machinery, not the hype. The flagship series, Under the Hood, is built to be read in sequence: each piece lands one idea in plain English, with the real mechanics waiting right below for the curious. Four are live; three more are coming.
01
Stop polishing the engine
The model was never the bottleneck. The harness around it was. Start here — it frames everything else.
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02
The genius and the desk
Why working memory, not intelligence, is the real limit — and how to manage it.
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03
Tell it who to be
How a persona quietly changes every answer you get — the cheapest lever there is.
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04
Why code got solved first
AI got good at code because code keeps score. Most things don't — and that reorders everything.
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Parts 05–07 in progress · see the full series →