AI platforms ship consumption and conversation tools disguised as "notebooks" while really just providing binders: great at ingesting references, silent when it comes to capturing your own ideas.
AI platforms call their reference collections "notebooks" and "projects", but a real notebook is filled with your own ideas, not a scrapbook of everyone else's material. A short rant on the gap between consuming content and capturing thought.
A daydream about where AI goes after the harness: smaller, purpose-built model and harness packages you download like apps.
Most AI today is a generalist model behind a generic harness. This is a bit of day dreaming out loud about what comes next: distilled, purpose-built agentic packages that combine model and harness into a single distributable unit, and what a …
Why the best AI depends on your outcomes, constraints, budget, and willingness to put in the work.
There is no universally best model, agent, or provider. Finding the right fit means defining value, experimenting within boundaries, measuring the full cost of an acceptable result, and deciding which responsibilities you are prepared to own.