The Heroism Tax
The difference between a high-stakes operation and a fragile one isn't effort — it's whether the procedure is a suggestion or a gate.
ESSAYS
The Arguments
Each essay stands alone. Together they build the case for why structure beats intelligence, why authored beats inferred, and why six primitives are all you need.
The Foundations
Agents Are the Wrong Abstraction
The AI industry is converging on 'agents' as the default abstraction for automating operations. This is the wrong level of abstraction.
Why Six
The origin story of the six primitives framework — how it started with three concepts and grew to six through contact with real operations.
Your AI Doesn't Need to Think. It Needs to See.
A rules engine needs structured input. The real world is unstructured. AI bridges that gap — not by thinking, but by seeing.