Artificial Intelligence
Apple Intelligence is good at privacy, but bad at thinking. To save the iPhone upgrade cycle, Apple just outsourced its brain to Google. (This post, like many others, was originally posted in 2025, before I migrated this site from WordPress to Ghost infrastructure). Inspiration: Realizing that “Siri” is still dumb
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We finally have a tool that can simulate the planet faster than the planet can change. This isn't just a weather forecast; it's a survival engine. Inspiration: Watching the Google WeatherNext 2 announcement and realizing it was tagged “Climate Change” for a reason. We usually talk
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The cookie is dead. Long live the conversation. Why the next generation of ads won't just know what you clicked—they'll know who you are. Inspiration: Realizing that AI assistant knows more about your son’s development milestones than his pediatrician does. For the last 20
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You can buy Nvidia H100s, but you can't buy a culture of innovation. The "Giga-Projects" are beautiful, expensive distractions from the real work. Inspiration: The news that NEOM is being scaled back (after burning billions) and the realization that “Humain” is a venture capital firm disguised
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The resume is dead. The future of hiring is your AI agent talking to their AI agent while you sleep. Inspiration: Seeing brilliant friends stuck in mediocre jobs simply because they are bad at “self-marketing,” and realizing that the best candidates are rarely the ones actively applying. The current recruiting
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Stop treating AI like a search engine. Start treating it like a mirror that remembers everything you forget. Inspiration: The moment I asked my AI to roast my life choices, and it gave better advice than my therapist. For years, my relationship with AI was transactional. “Hi, I’m Barbaros.
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The "China Threat" isn't just a geopolitical reality. It is the single most effective slide in a Silicon Valley pitch deck. Inspiration: Jensen Huang and Sam Altman on every news channel, and the peculiar reason why China bans Google. Let’s look at the scoreboard. In
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The tools finally caught up to the hype. This year, we didn't just "play" with AI; we built our entire Black Friday strategy on it. Inspiration: Early performance surprises and the realization that I could generate 50 high-quality ad variants in the time it used to
"Googling" is dying. To survive the Agentic Age, the world's biggest search engine needs to stop being a search engine. Inspiration: The confusion of explaining “Gemini for Workspace” to my mom, and the sheer brilliance of Mark Zuckerberg’s “Meta” pivot. Remember when Facebook became Meta?
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We worried that Millennials were glued to screens. We worried Gen Z was addicted to TikTok. Now, we should worry if we can keep up with the generation that treats intelligence as a utility. Inspiration: The “Intern” who runs the corporate Twitter account, and the 12-year-olds building Python apps without
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The barrier to entry just dropped to zero. If you have an idea and a keyboard, you are now a creative agency. Inspiration: The death of the $500 web banner and my friends becoming video game characters. Let’s have an honest conversation about the first wave of AI image
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Why the real news from Meta Connect isn't just a camera. It's the beginning of the real-world Iron Man UI. Inspiration: World of Warcraft addons, Iron Man’s Jarvis, and the Anduril EagleEye military targeting system. So, Meta Connect just happened. Everyone is talking about the