6000 years ago, in the shadow of Egypt’s pyramids, a overseer with a whip ensured laborers toiled under the sun. Today, the whip has been replaced by KPIs, bonuses, and performance reviews. Yet the logic remains unchanged: management, as we know it, is less about guiding teams and more about transmitting threat. The overseer of […]
When we talk about artificial intelligence, what are we really trying to accomplish? Do we want another tool for convenience or a means to address some of humanity’s most pressing problems? Injustice, disease, hunger, lack of clean energy, lack of access to proper healthcare… These are the problems that matter, AI should be serving as […]
What a stubborn training log taught me about measuring before tuning I learned this one the slow way: most “stuck” models were never moving in the first place. I spent days staring at a training log that refused to budge. Validation loss bouncing in a narrow band, accuracy wobbling literally around the same values, epoch […]
There is a Persian proverb that fits here perfectly: “Every walnut is round, but not every round thing is a walnut.” «هر گردویی گرد است، اما هر گردی گردو نیست» Two things can look the same from the outside and be completely different inside. Job titles work exactly like that. Someone’s title does not define […]
Why the panic is fake Every time a new “emerging” technology shakes up the world, people lose their minds; Today it’s AI’s turn… ☹😠☹😠☹😠☹😠 Did we slow down any of that? Did anyone pause the internet for six months because humanity was not ready? Of course not! Now, all these big frontier “AI leaders” are […]
Everyone is talking about AI killing humans. Some are completely trapped inside the Terminator movie, so narrow minded that they genuinely believe an AI-enabled machine is going to one day take over human life. I want to be direct about this: AI itself will not kill you! Neither did the discovery of atomic energy. It […]
For the past few years, we were told that AI can calculate, predict, imitate, and search. But it cannot really discover. That last part was supposed to be different. A calculator can give you the answer. A search engine can find the answer. An AI can even explain the answer. But discovering something that nobody […]
The Two Faces of Theft I’m going to say this loudly: We spend all our time telling people to watch out for online scams, while they are being legally robbed every single day. We call a criminal a malicious social engineer when they exploit human psychology to trick someone into a financial mistake. That is […]
Why This Story Doesn’t Add Up Let’s talk about this recent incident with OpenAI and their powerful model supposedly breaking out of its sandbox, talking to another AI system, and doing whatever else they claimed. The whole narrative is engineered for maximum publicity, and I am going to tell you why. Engineering integrity should never […]
People are losing their minds over this story about an AI model breaking out of a sandbox. The headlines make it sound like a sci-fi movie…Take that recent news about OpenAI. The reports claim an unreleased model broke out of its secure sandbox and started digging around on Hugging Face just to steal test answers. […]
There is a point in every industry where you have to step out of the weeds and look at the whole landscape. AI has reached that point. The mainstream conversation is stuck on the technical treadmill: new models, new infrastructure, new GPUs, new frameworks, new benchmarks. All fascinating, no doubt. But fascination is not the […]
Nobody wants to hear this. But someone has to say it: The industry is full of people who collected certificates like trading cards, dropped a university name in their bio, and convinced a hiring manager they could secure a network they have never actually touched. It works, for a while. Then reality shows up. You […]