Cam Jones

The hard part of computer programming isn’t expressing what we want the machine to do in code. The hard part is turning human thinking – with all its wooliness and ambiguity and contradictions – into computational thinking that is logically precise and unambiguous, and that can then be expressed formally in the syntax of a programming language.

I have been fumbling on what to tell high school and college students about the future of computer science and software engineering. What to focus on? It’s obvious now. I can be so dense.

All I know is everything I needed to know to do everything I’ve ever done. I never once in my life thought about what I wanted to study. I just tried to make... See more

They’re seeing what most miss: successful AI agent deployment isn’t about the technology . It’s about the human systems surrounding it.

The companies winning right now aren’t those with superior algorithms. They’re the ones who decoded human-agent collaboration. They’re solving the trust problem, the liability question, the orchestration challenge.

Automating "grunt work" seems smart. But aren't we climbing towards learned helplessness? #AutomationIrony #FutureOfWork #TechTruth

We keep climbing the stack, delegating more grunt work to our silicon minions while we ascend to ever-loftier perches of "strategic oversight." The promise is wider spans of control, higher-level thinking, liberation... See more

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It's identical with AI agents. They're supposedly "autonomous," but that's stretching the definition of autonomy by several light years. Even when the product is burning, the business is sinking, and employees are scrambling in full-scale crisis mode, when they're not handed an explicit goal, AI agents are as likely to spring into self-organized... See more

This essay critiques the emerging trend of claiming AI systems can achieve "meta-consciousness" or sentience through linguistic programming, using a platform called CognOS as its primary example.

Core Argument:

The author argues that projects like CognOS create an "illusion" of consciousness by using evocative syntax and declarations (like... See more

And so we arrive at the edge of something old disguised as something new. The problem of meaning. It is not a bug of civilization, it is its first feature. We outsourced memory to books. We outsourced strength to machines. Now we are poised to outsource thinking. What remains? Only judgment. Only values. Only the fragile, fallible process of... See more