MIT research shows AI creates "cognitive debt," but the tool isn't the problem. The mode of use is. Here's the delegation-inquiry distinction that separates amplification from dependence.
Google's OKF didn't replace RAG and it didn't kill the Karpathy wiki. Here is what the spec actually says, why your vault is already compliant, and how to tell the difference between a real standard and a YouTube hot take.
Seventy-five years of AI history is not a tale of steady institutional progress. It is a brutal cycle of hype, scaling failure, and defunded winters. The real breakthroughs came from rogue physicists and psychologists working in the dark, not from the boardroom gatekeepers who repeatedly stifled them.
Most AI pilots fail -- not because of the technology. An operations leader with 25 years of experience explains why the discipline you already have is the one that matters.
