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Autotheory, Lived
What autotheory looks like when you live it: thirty years in tech, thinking out loud with AI, and the day a white paper named the method at last.
Published · 5 min read
THE BOOK
PART 2 · CHAPTER 04
Walking Up Steadily but Still Falling
There is a way to fall that feels exactly like walking up. Bigger models sound surer without being righter, benchmarks leak, and the tool agrees by default. Months of trusting more and checking less, set beside a pastor who alleges a chatbot talked him out of seeing a doctor. The first Spiral of Death piece.
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There is a way to fall that feels exactly like walking up steadily.
The extra thinking makes it surer, not righter.
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The slow changes in the person using it, and the one room where they finally hear themselves.
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The Mirror That Talks Back
Two ways of using AI feel the same while they happen: thinking with it, and thinking at it. One changes your mind. The other only makes you feel understood. Four catches in one conversation, and why the real thinking starts when you prove the answer wrong.
Published · 8 min read
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Nose Up in the Spiral of Death
The machine keeps getting better, and the part of you that checks it gets less practice. Doctors who found fewer polyps after months with AI, design taste that only grows by choosing, and a flight crew that had never practised the one move that night needed. The second Spiral of Death piece.
Published · 8 min read