Writing on product, engineering, AI, and the messy work of building things.https://brushedsteel.com/https://brushedsteel.com/blog/creating-ai-with-ai/https://brushedsteel.com/blog/creating-ai-with-ai/AI is the new interface—not a chatbot in a sidebar, but the layer that drives what you see and what gets built. The TUI analogy is imperfect, but the direction is clear: applications that assemble themselves on the fly.Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://brushedsteel.com/blog/ai-harness/https://brushedsteel.com/blog/ai-harness/The model gets the headlines. The harness does the work—tools, context, verification, and the boring connective tissue that turns a fluent text generator into something you can actually run.Sat, 06 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://brushedsteel.com/blog/power-and-control-in-ancient-history/https://brushedsteel.com/blog/power-and-control-in-ancient-history/Empires did not survive on swords alone. Grain, roads, ritual, and record-keeping were the quiet machinery of control—and we still live inside versions of it.Sat, 06 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://brushedsteel.com/blog/squishy-thinking/https://brushedsteel.com/blog/squishy-thinking/Algorithms paid the bills, but biology is how I actually think. On LLMs, LeCun's world models, JEPA, and why the harness—not the model alone—is the spine of the system.Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://brushedsteel.com/blog/working-with-ai/https://brushedsteel.com/blog/working-with-ai/Most advice on AI is either boosterism or panic. The useful territory is narrower: treat it like a sharp but erratic colleague, and learn when to hand it the keyboard.Sat, 09 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://brushedsteel.com/blog/inhumane-society/https://brushedsteel.com/blog/inhumane-society/We grant our oldest companions a gentle exit at the vet. We deny many humans the same mercy—and then we caricature those who tried to give it.Sun, 23 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT