AI and the Golden Era of Instant Gratification

marshmallow test AI

In the late 1960s, a Stanford psychologist named Walter Mischel put preschoolers in a room with a marshmallow. The rules were simple: eat it now, or wait fifteen minutes and get two. Some kids ate immediately. Others waited. Mischel tracked them for decades. Turned out that the ones who waited had better SAT scores, lower … Read more

POV: You Accidentally Injected Agent Smith Into The Matrix

agent smith into the matrix

I found the agentic hype incredibly ironic. AI agents can do this, AI agents can do that, everywhere agents. And if you’ve been around for a while, you probably know why I find this hype ironic. But if you don’t, stick around. More than 2 decades ago, a prophetic movie, The Matrix, was released. It … Read more