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How We Think About AI

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AI Needs Inspectable Artifacts — To help humans think, AI needs artifacts humans can own, inspect, move, and understand. Plain text enables collaboration without dependency.

Legibility Enables Intelligence — AI and humans thrive with simple, transparent systems. Organized, inspectable structures enable understanding and reasoning.

Local-First AI — Hardware advances rapidly. What required cloud now runs on your laptop. On-device AI gives speed, privacy, and independence from subscriptions.

The Human Remains Central — AI reduces cognitive load, not replaces judgment. Always see what's happening, always override.

Model Agnosticism — No lock-in to our models. Bring your own, use local, mix and match. Intelligence layer as flexible as data layer.