essays on ai, agentic systems & building the future
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Mark Coleran designed the fictional interfaces that shaped how real technology looks today. He coined the term FUI, built screens for Bourne and Children of Men, and quietly influenced an entire industry. He died in June 2024. Most people never learned his name.
Read more →Apprenticeship is how software used to survive. Not scale. Survive. AI now sits where the senior used to sit. It answers instantly, patches over confusion, fills the gaps before the junior even knows there was a gap. We are short circuiting the only path that ever produced judgment.
Read more →I do not let my son outsource thinking to a machine. He uses Claude Code to write C++ in Unreal Engine. That part is fine. What changed is how often the model started driving instead of assisting. So we put a PR process in place.
Read more →My son writes C++ that leaves me stunned. He still gets screened out by people who can barely parse their own script. The industry lost the ability to measure raw talent and replaced it with buzzword bingo.
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