It began, in the public imagination at least, with a silencer and a sidewalk in Midtown Manhattan. The December 2024 killing of Brian Thompson, CEO of UnitedHealth Group, shot outside a hotel before an investor conference shocked the country less for the act itself than for the reaction to it. Social media didn’t mourn. It deliberated. Memes circulated. The…
Or did it? Just as video never quite buried radio, AI may be engineering a rebirth — not an obituary — for the developers bold enough to adapt. The Panic In 1979, the Buggles declared it with synthesized certainty: Video killed the radio star. The song wasn’t just a pop hook, it was a eulogy for an entire class…
Explainability as an Architectural First-Class Concern Introduction We stand at a peculiar inflection point in financial history. The algorithms making credit decisions, fraud determinations, and trading executions increasingly operate beyond the comprehension of those who deploy them. This is not a failure of engineering. It is a failure of architectural philosophy, particularly in the context of AI explainability. The…
“A fool with a tool is still a fool.”…
This post investigates the existential macroeconomic divergence facing the…
