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Notes from the Fault Lines
A monthly-ish column — my own thinking as it develops, ahead of anything more polished. Written here first, argued properly later.
From FLOPS to Intelligence per Watt
There is no working, adopted way to measure intelligence delivered per watt today. I think that gap — not any single architecture choice — is the one most worth closing first.
What Changed in Twelve Months
Capability, scale, energy, and the fraction of a model that actually does the work — the pace argument, told in hard, sourced numbers before any of it gets opinionated.
Design Space Exploration or Design Space Denial?
For a decade, AI silicon design converged on one comfortable target. Agentic and physical AI are breaking that convergence — and it's worth asking honestly whether we're still exploring the design space, or just getting good at exploring the same corner of it.
Why I'm starting here
On the comfortable corner of the design space, why five commitments beat one mission statement, and what this column is actually for.