Devin Baker

Because that’s the essential nature of a borderland: for all the disorientation, it’s also a frontier. It’s the space where the old rules break down and the new ones get written. It’s a moment of pure creation.

• Cognition refers to the role of intelligence as the primary input of production and social organisation.The one thing no machine could do was exercise general judgement: to reason flexibly, across domains, in the face of novelty. That boundary is now dissolving, and with it the assumption that human intelligence is the irreducible input of

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Change is the permanent condition of history but stability and stasis are not the same thing. A structure can absorb enormous disruption while its foundations remain intact. What is rare, and what we are now encountering, is when the foundations move.

Look out to see in. Introspection with yourself as the object is a trap. You’re incompressible anyway. Make yourself the subject. Nick Cave and Rick Rubin don’t ask "Who am I?" They just notice. Ask what this song wants to be, right here. Attend to the world outside and you discover the person paying attention inside.

I think of this as switchboarding , trying to get the right information to the right person. Someone’s got an empty seat/someone needs a ride. You’re getting into the history of plumbing/I know exactly the book you should read. Your cousin is moving to San Diego and doesn’t know anyone/my former rugby teammate lives there, maybe they can be... See more

We are building the most powerful tools we have ever had. Our temptation is a very American one: to engineer immediately. To ask of every new capability: What can I build with this? How do I deploy it? What can I do with it? How can I change creation with it? These are all necessary questions, but they are second questions. They are Genesis 2:15... See more

Webster, although he was a deeply religious man himself, reversed the order. He tended before he named. He decided what American English should be, and he built it. The result was efficient and clean and much faster. But this is what happens when you engineer before you discover. You get a useful product, but you lose the life and the weight of the... See more

We are entering an era where the vast majority of language produced will not have come from or been originated by human hands. These are often seen as words without lives — fluid, grammatically impeccable words that are efficient. But they are words that were never spoken, often about nothing, and for transient reasons. The model does not attend.... See more

New software companies emerged, too. Built on AI-native architectures with radically lower cost structures, they offered capabilities that didn’t exist in the prior generation. Enterprise software spending didn’t shrink for long; it got reallocated. By Q3 2027, total enterprise tech spending had recovered to 2025 levels but the composition was... See more