Writing
Writing and talks
I've been working out what language models mean for work since before it was my job. The earliest notes here are from February 2026, and the dates are in a public Git history.
- The Pareto-optimal kitchen tap On optimising things, Wittgenstein, and the day I first talked to a machine.
- AI and entry-level jobs A public talk at Altrincham Town Hall: straight lines on graphs, what AI can now do, and what it means for the first rung of the career ladder.
- Are AI-exposed jobs losing young UK workers? The first chart said yes. The checks said not yet.
- The new era Notes for a board talk: Wittgenstein and how language models learn, agents, METR’s task horizons, alignment and Moloch traps.
- How long a task will AI agents finish by the end of 2026? A curve fitted to METR’s data, with a correction I made a few weeks later.