August 2025

What Ants Teach Us About AI Alignment

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about a species of carpenter ant that lives in the mountains around Jerusalem. These tiny insects might just hold the key to one of…

AI’s Swiss Cheese

Last month, I spoke with Matthew Prince, cofounder and CEO of Cloudflare, as part of my ongoing series of public conversations, Live with Tim O’Reilly. Cloudflare made waves with its…

The Abstractions, They Are A-Changing

Since ChatGPT appeared on the scene, we’ve known that big changes were coming to computing. But it’s taken a few years for us to understand what they were. Now, we’re…

Taming the Delightful Chaos

If you want to make the most of The Field We Now Call AI, look to trading. Specifically, the tech-driven sort. People who’ve read my other work, or who have…