Archive - Life in the Singularity

Don't Tax the Robots!

"Tax the Robots" is the dumbest idea I've heard Mark Cuban utter.

Dec 25 • Matt McDonagh

In a recent post on a related site, Wealth Systems, I made the case AI agents will spend (and save) in Bitcoin.

Dec 23 • Matt McDonagh

Intelligence and Energy Too Cheap to Meter

Moving from Science to Simulation

Dec 20 • Matt McDonagh

LLMs Are Bootloading AGI

I’ve been saying LLMs aren’t AGI for longer than Yann LeCun..

Dec 19 • Matt McDonagh

Thermodynamic Security

The Post-Truth Stack

Dec 18 • Matt McDonagh

AI Has Changed Software Engineering

And the Smart Engineers Couldn't Be Happier

Dec 14 • Matt McDonagh

Monolithic Architecture Dominance in the Age of AI

For ten years, you have been sold a lie.

Dec 13 • Matt McDonagh

Blueprint for the Convexity Engine

Hope is not a strategy.

Dec 10 • Matt McDonagh

AI Is Our Global Nervous System

The Second Current

Dec 6 • Matt McDonagh

November 2025

Vibe Engineering, Part II

In the first part of this series, we laid the foundation.

Nov 29 • Matt McDonagh

Deep Learning Is an Illusion: The Google Research That Just Rewrote the Rules of Scale

RIP Transformers: Why the Next Trillion-Dollar AI Won’t Be "Deep"

Nov 23 • Matt McDonagh

The Invention of the Singularity Drive

We have spent the last three hundred years chopping reality into little pieces.

Nov 22 • Matt McDonagh

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