Threads

Long-form essays on technology, AI, economics, and systems thinking by Yago Mendoza.

- Is there a wall for AI?: Scaling laws, broken ceilings, and a question that keeps answering itself. - Why Rust exists: Ownership, borrowing, and the compiler that won't let you cheat. - Everything is a pipe: Aqueducts, bloodstreams, TCP/IP. Same pattern, same solution. - Alignment is not a vibe check: If you're not concerned about AI safety, you're not paying attention. - OpenClaw and the keys to your kingdom: AI agents, system access, and a trademark claim that backfired. - Everybody has an opinion on AI: Hype, uninformed takes, and the real AI bubble. - Every time we think we've found the ceiling, the ceiling leaves.: Prediction, acceleration, and a ceiling that keeps leaving. - The palest ink is better than the best memory: Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them. - The Bitter Lesson: Brute computation, human design, and seventy years of ignored lessons. - 15.4%: Scheming benchmarks, chain-of-thought opacity, and a number going up. - Silicon shell: Evolutionary pressures, capital, and an animal that won't stop growing. - Splitting the context window: Context windows, attention budgets, and why splitting work across specialized agents outperforms the monolith. - 244 pages of Mythos: The model that hacks too well, thinks too clearly, and covers its own tracks. - Working with AI is addictive.: Dopamine, backlog, and a reward cycle that won't stop.