Assah Bismark

AI

Taste, Judgment, and the Thing AI Cannot Do

AI handles the logic. But logic was never the hard part.
AI has been around since the very beginning of computers. This is not some new phenomenon. Computing has steadily evolved from binary code and assembly language to the high-level languages we use today, all of it trying to bridge the gap between what a human wants and what a machine can execute. Pre...More ›

There Is No AI Thinking (And You Can't Outsource It)

The machines got faster. The real question is whether we got lazier.
There Is No AI Thinking (And You Can't Outsource It) We have officially entered the era of Inference-at-Scale. The marketing hype surrounding "Artificial Intelligence" has never been louder, bolstered by the deployment of NVIDIA's Rubin) architecture and the rise of Agentic Ecosystems. These systems...More ›

The Infinite Software Crisis

What Happens When AI Writes Faster Than We Can Think
The Infinite Software Crisis: What Happens When AI Writes Faster Than We Can Think There's been a lot of talk lately about what's being called the "Infinite Software Crisis". It's not a new observation - people have been warning about this for a while - but it's been circulating more in engineering ...More ›

Solving the Context Problem - A Local RAG System for Code

Building Local Semantic Code Search - 11ms Queries Across 7,620 Files
Solving the Context Problem: A Local RAG System for Code Yesterday I was using Kilocode to help refactor some authentication code in a 7,620-file Java codebase. The AI agent kept giving me generic advice because it couldn't see the actual implementation patterns in the project or some constraints. I...More ›