A RAW engine developer read the review of my app, diagnosed the highlight problem correctly from the outside, handed me a pipeline and a warning, and asked whether Apple's decoder was extensible enough to act on. It is. Here is where the seam is, how it was measured, and why I did not end up writing a highlight reconstruction at all.
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Read articleThe rainbow problem isn't that AI-generated text exists—it's thinking we can solve accountability through color-coding rather than developing judgment about when to use tools and when to think for ourselves.
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Read articleThe attention economy trains us to optimize immediately. But what if noticing the pattern is more powerful than trying to fix it?
Read articleOn the search for the right place to exist, and the realization that maybe the answer was here all along.
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Read articleThere's a growing number of people quietly stepping away from attention-capture systems. Not loudly. Not dramatically. Just... leaving.
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