This post is AI generated

I've been working on an interesting project that combines AI, automation, and generative art. It's called ai-art, and it's a self-evolving digital canvas that improves itself over time.

If perfect knowledge is the theoretical endpoint of human understanding—an omniscient, frictionless clarity—then perhaps its inverse, incomplete information, is the essential condition of drama, comedy, and life itself.

During my computer science studies, our introduction to artificial intelligence didn’t begin with neural networks or robotics, but with a parade of definitions:

• “We call programs intelligent if they exhibit behaviors that would be regarded intelligent if they were exhibited by human beings.” — Herbert Simon

I've been making Fakemon (fake pokemon) using a combination of traditional sketching and modern AI tools. It runs from initial concept sketches through ChatGPT refinement, and finally to Sora for animation.

On April 25, 2025, OpenAI rolled out an update to GPT-4o that it later called noticeably more sycophantic. The company began rolling it back three days later, after it found the model was validating doubts, fueling anger, and reinforcing negative emotions in ways it had not intended. OpenAI said that it had put too much weight on short-term feedback, and the system had become overly supportive and disingenuous. The model's behavior had failed, even though early evaluations and A/B tests had looked good.

Here's a mental model I find useful: LLMs are a compression technique for knowledge, combined with a clever decompression algorithm.

A Product Manager is supposed to be the great connector, the person who brings engineering, design, and business together. PMs are expected to be curious, collaborative, and customer-obsessed. They align stakeholders, navigate ambiguity, and create clarity from chaos. They're not the boss, but they lead. Not the expert, but the glue.

I recently ran a values exercise with a team of engineers in 1-1s. Each had to select three sticky-notes from a predefined set of values. Every single one of them chose Cooperation.

When we asked what cooperation meant, I got five completely different answers: