TEAColumn

I Gave Four AI Models a Chat Room and a Constitution

What two weeks of running a multi vendor agent team taught me about the difference between software and organizations.

15 hrs ago • TEA (The Era Arc)

The Dark Factory is a Trap: Why AI Coding Needs Self Illumination

Maybe the future is not lights on or lights off.

Jul 27 • TEA (The Era Arc)

When the how is no longer the bottleneck

then what exactly are we trying to build?

Jul 13 • TEA (The Era Arc)

I Asked GPT to Make Sam Altman More Beautiful. It Put Him in a Blazer. I Asked It to Do the Same to Taylor Swift. It Added Jewelry.

What a beauty experiment on five AI models reveals about the standards we never agreed to, and the biases we are already inheriting.

Jun 29 • TEA (The Era Arc)

My AI Confessed. The Real Story Is What I Built Around It.

A week of mistakes that cost nothing.

Jun 22 • TEA (The Era Arc)

You Are Not Thinking Big Enough.

AI is the tool. The universe is the end.

Jun 15 • TEA (The Era Arc)

Stop Building for Today. It Is Already Too Late.

The only way to win with AI is to aim at a future that does not exist yet.

Jun 1 • TEA (The Era Arc)

The Harness You Are Not Building

What AI engineering taught me about managing my own attention.

May 25 • TEA (The Era Arc)

The Dawn of the Agentic OS: Building the AI Kernel

What changes, what stays the same, and why you shouldn’t let the harness lock you in.

May 11 • TEA (The Era Arc)

Verifiability, System Drift, and the Future of AI Automation: Reflections on Andrej Karpathy’s Insights

Some thoughts on verifiability in automation, building systems that last, and where AI technology might actually be headed

May 4 • TEA (The Era Arc)

The Company Brain Has Four Stages, Not Two

Why “self-healing AI” is the wrong ceiling, and what I learned this week about building systems that actually improve themselves

Apr 27 • TEA (The Era Arc) and Sam Li

The AI-First Shift: Rethinking Business and the Future of Human Thought

From Automation to Entangled Intelligence and the Choice Between Coach and Crutch

Apr 20 • TEA (The Era Arc) and Sam Li

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