The Abstraction Illusion: How RLAD Teaches Parrots to Prompt Themselves
Oct 29, 2025 · 9 min read · The AI research community has done it again. We’ve taken a genuine engineering achievement, wrapped it in aspirational terminology, and presented it as evidence of emerging intelligence. The latest exhibit: RLAD (Reinforcement Learning with Abstracti...
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The Autonomy Illusion: Why Every AI Breakthrough Is the Same Delusion
Oct 10, 2025 · 14 min read · OpenAI’s GPT-5, “built specifically with agentic tasks in mind” and “our best performing model on complex, economically valuable knowledge work,” has ignited a firestorm of excitement. Microsoft declares “we’ve entered the era of AI agents” thanks to...
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The RL Fairytale: Why OpenAI’s “Reasoning” Revolution Is Built on Shaky Foundations
Sep 27, 2025 · 7 min read · The Story We Tell Ourselves For the past year, I’ve watched the AI community embrace a compelling narrative: that reinforcement learning (RL) has finally transformed large language models from sophisticated autocomplete into genuine reasoning engines...
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The Great AI Safety Theater: How OpenAI and Apollo Turned Stats Class into Existential Drama
Sep 23, 2025 · 10 min read · “We’ve developed methods to detect and mitigate scheming in AI systems through deliberative alignment training.” That’s how Apollo Research and OpenAI want you to understand their recent collaboration. It sounds urgent, sophisticated—the kind of brea...
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The Impending AI Reckoning: Fake It Till You Make It Industry Reality
May 21, 2025 · 7 min read · As we navigate the middle of 2025, the artificial intelligence sector finds itself in a precarious position. What began as legitimate technological advancement has morphed into a speculative bubble of unprecedented proportions—one that exhibits all t...
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The Snake Oil of AI in 2025: When One Technology Is Suspiciously the Solution to Everything
May 18, 2025 · 7 min read · In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, we're witnessing a curious phenomenon: a single technology being marketed as the solution to virtually every problem imaginable. OpenAI, once focused on transparent research, now seems to ...
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2025: The Peak of the AI Literacy Crisis
Dec 13, 2024 · 3 min read · In the rapidly evolving landscape of technological innovation, we stand at a critical juncture where artificial intelligence has transcended from a futuristic concept to an omnipresent reality. Yet, our collective understanding remains woefully inade...
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The Dangers of AI Hype: When the Illusion of Intelligence Becomes a Problem
Nov 19, 2024 · 4 min read · In the realm of artificial intelligence, there exists a seductive illusion—a perpetual, agreeable companion that seems to understand, validate, and support without hesitation. We call this the "yes-persona," a phenomenon that reveals far more about t...
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The Transformer OpenAI’s Rebranding: From Language Model to "AI Intelligence"
Nov 1, 2024 · 10 min read · In the realm of artificial intelligence, we are witnessing one of the most remarkable feats of technological rebranding in history—though not for the reasons commonly celebrated. The transformer architecture, fundamentally unchanged since its 2017 in...
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