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My site has a human.json file

I remember the early days of blogging as a time where blogs were connectors between people so I was interested to see Corey Snipe's post Add a ‘human.json' file to a Publii Website - coreysnipes.com . The human.json protocol is lightweight protocol for humans to assert authorship of their website content and vouch for the humanity of others. Setup was simple. I created a human.json file in accordance with the instructions given., added it to The Quantum Garden Website and installed the browser add-on. When it detects a human.json is present it reads the files and checks for humanity in all dir

The Quantum Garden · EN

My photo editing syllabus

A list of software transferrable photo editing skills I want to master. Masking in order to precisely control the application of adjustments Gradients are a form of masking that keeps eluding me Dodge is the process of lightening an area Burn is the process of darkening an area Brush use as a more flexible form of masking Colour grading to correct colours in old photos Tone mapping for HDR images Blend modes for altering the direction of adjustments There are multiple ways to attack any edit and I never know which, if any, I should be choosing and trust a list to work to will help. My training

The Quantum Garden · EN

Turning Problem-Explaining into Solutions

Explaining a problem to your manager is only half a solution. How to complete the circle, identify solutions, and show cost, benefits and delivery timelines.

Phroneses.com · EN

Why Agentic Coding Needs Extra Staff to Stay Stable

Agentic systems generate far more code but also around 1.2 production defects per day, requiring extra fix capacity to stay stable.

Phroneses.com · EN

AI: the reality

LLMs excel at generating new artefacts but fail when asked to interpret and safely update existing ones. Their value lies in text creation tasks (research, summary, explanation, deep dives), not system modification.

Phroneses.com · EN

The International AI Race May Not Be Won by the Smartest AI

The AI race may not be won by the smartest model, but by whoever can embed enough intelligence into the physical economy at the greatest scale.

Phroneses.com · EN

Estimates do not give you what you want

Estimates are poor tools for managing uncertainty and humans are poor at generating them.

Phroneses.com · EN

The Rogue Agent Myth: Why AI Agents Need Boundaries More Than Goals

Recent reports of AI going rogue are misleading and sensationalist. The AI is not rogue: agentic systems pursue objectives literally, making explicit boundaries, constraints, and escalation paths as important as the goals themselves.

Phroneses.com · EN

A Model of Human Cognition: From Observation to Theory

Humans do not merely recognize patterns. They construct progressively richer representations from their observations. This article proposes a typed model of cognition in which learning is the creation of higher-order representational objects and thinking is the recursive manipulation of those objects.

Phroneses.com · EN

Testing Distributed Systems

Testing distributed systems is hard due to scale and changing the system's environment can affect how the system performs. Sampling and observability offer ways forward.

Phroneses.com · EN

Where is the Puck Skating to?

Last month, Meta showed off Orion , which I can only describe as a concept car version of augmented reality (AR) glasses. Orion is a pair of AR glasses that come with a compute puck, that is wirelessly connected to the glasses, and a neural wristband that tracks hand movements. Orion, or some future version of it, is purported to be the device/platform that will replace smartphones. The idea of strapping a computer to your face and seeing the world through it not new, and has been attempted in many forms in the past, most recently, Apple Vision Pro. What past attempts have in common, though, i

Often Wrong · EN

Why Apple Intelligence Ads Miss the Mark

Apple's ads have a storied history of excellent branding and messaging, which made their latest Apple Intelligence ads feel strangely off to me. These ads, when contrasted with their older ones, reveal a kind of cognitive dissonance. Apple, a company known for its deliberate and thoughtful storytelling, seems to be rushing into this huge category – a decades-long arc according to them . This haste might explain why the ads feel disjointed, and lack the cohesion of their predecessors. Let's look at the ads to try and unpack this uneasiness. Apple's Ad Legacy Apple's ads have near-mythical statu

Often Wrong · EN

Thoughts on Personalized Podcasts

Podcasts have exploded in popularity ( About half of Americans have listened to a podcast in the past year ). What started as a niche medium has become a platform for everyone from celebrities to politicians to business leaders. We're even seeing podcasts dig into deep technical content, including scientific papers. Recently, we have seen tools such as NotebookLM and Eleven Labs Reader that let you make podcast episodes out of pieces of text, using AI. Despite this innovation, the core experience of listening to a podcast episode, regardless of how it was generated, remains static. Once the ho

Often Wrong · EN

The AI Compute Currency Problem

While strides are being made in model efficiency, model complexity is outpacing efficiency gains. Recent comments by industry leaders suggest that this is going to be the status quo for the time being. Newer models, with o3, o4-mini, 2.5 Pro are getting smarter, and handling increasingly complex tasks (Deep Research, agentic workflows, etc.). That means charging $20/mo even with usage limits does not cut it, because the limits would be too low for frontier models. Naturally, AI service providers are introducing higher limit tiers for their latest and greatest models. OpenAI and Anthropic seem

Often Wrong · EN

Are We Looking at the First iPhone Built for AI?

The iPhone design cycle seemed to have shifted from two years to three in the recent years. But with the 17 Pro, Apple has completely redesigned the chassis and used a new material, after a brief two year stint with titanium. Is this an intentional move to switch back to a two year design cycle as Ben Thompson speculates ? Or did something else cause this change? A bit of context for those that are not obsessively tracking internal details about iPhones (I am aware of my problem). Apple had gone from using stainless steel to titanium for their Pro phones in 2023, touting the many benefits of t

Often Wrong · EN

Power User Feature Requests for AI

Photo by Yuma Nozaki on Unsplash I thought it might be fun to jot down a few features I wish AI chatbots had, things that fit better with the way I think and use them. I'm keeping this as a living scorecard to see what I get right vs. what actually ships. Also, it just so happens that towards the end of 2025, Your Year with ChatGPT told me I was in the top 1% of users by usage. Obviously, given this elite status, my thoughts are so valuable that they needed to be shared (/s in case it was not clear). On Memory Memory is one of my favorite features of ChatGPT, and I was surprised it took as lon

Often Wrong · EN

Status Games and the Future of Social Networks

There seem to be more and more services popping up that let you generate fake vacation pictures with AI, as covered by The Verge here . At first I thought, "why would anyone want to use this?" But then when I saw Adam Mosseri's end-of-year thoughts about Instagram (also summarized by PetaPixel ), it made sense to me. In this post, I want to go through the things I agree with Adam about, and one important bit that I disagree with. The death of the feed First, a brief aside about Instagram. The main feed has been in decline over the past few years. This has been covered by many tech outlets, and

Often Wrong · EN

Responses Won't Always Be Perfect

Spotify recently announced an AI chatbot, called " Talk to Spotify ", that does what you'd expect. Users can ask questions in natural language and it answers. I admit I have not tried it, but reading the announcement made me groan more than excited. This is my way of putting that groan into words. At the bottom of the article there is a disclaimer saying, "...the responses won't always be perfect". Now, I'm not picking on Spotify specifically here. Most, if not all, the companies launching AI chatbots tack on the same disclaimer. Snap's My AI and Microsoft Copilot's disclaimers I feel like par

Often Wrong · EN

Desert Bike

Well this was unexpected. I pulled over at this random spot in the desert to take pictures, and I see a blue glint in a bush — I look closer and it’s a bike — With this message scribbled on it: “June 18, 2026: I will return for this bike, leave it here!” Now I’m […] The post Desert Bike appeared first on Nick Carr / Location Scout .