The parable of the friend at midnight commends the one thing our instant tools have trained out of us: the shameless persistence of asking a Person, not a machine.
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Sunday Reflection: Let Both Grow Together
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Google Gemini 3.5 Pro Arrives With a 2-Million-Token Context Window
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OpenAI Retires the Year-Old Atlas Browser and Debuts GPT-Live Full-Duplex Voice
OpenAI retires its year-old Atlas browser, merges ChatGPT, Work, and Codex into one desktop app, and debuts GPT-Live voice: the churn even the leaders live inside.
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Pleonexia
The Greek term for the disposition to grasp for more than one's share, used in classical political philosophy and the New Testament as the root vice behind structural consolidation.
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Prompt Engineering
The skill of writing clear, structured instructions to get better and more consistent results from AI models.
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Vibe Coding
A casual approach to building software with AI where you describe what you want in plain language and let the AI handle the implementation details.
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Agent Control Surface
The user interface that lets a human watch, approve, and redirect an AI agent that is running somewhere else, while the underlying work stays on the machine where the agent lives.
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Sophrosune
Greek for sound-mindedness, temperance, and self-restraint; the cardinal virtue that names the discipline of knowing what is enough and stopping there.
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Transformer
A neural network architecture, introduced in 2017, that uses attention mechanisms to process sequences of tokens in parallel and powers every modern large language model.
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