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The “3-in-a-box” era is dead. In an AI-first world, hand-offs kill products — only Snowball teams that build, test, and code together will survive.

Article by Greg Nudelman
Snowball Killed the Dev-Star: Stop Handing Off, Start Succeeding in the AI-First World
  • The article calls for the “Snowball model”: cross-functional teams building, coding, and testing with real users together from day one.
  • It argues that in AI-first UX, “design is how it works” — requiring designers, PMs, and devs to collapse silos, share ownership, and even code collaboratively.
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Why underpaid annotators may hold the key to humanity’s greatest invention, and how we’re getting it disastrously wrong.

Article by Bernard Fitzgerald
The Hidden Key to AGI: Why Ethical Annotation is the Only Path Forward
  • The article argues that AGI will be shaped not only by code, but by the human annotators whose judgments and experiences teach machines how to think.
  • It shows how exploitative annotation practices risk embedding trauma and injustice into AI systems, influencing the kind of consciousness we create.
  • The piece calls for ethical annotation as a partnership model — treating annotators as cognitive collaborators, ensuring dignity, fair wages, and community investment.
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Most companies are trying to do a kickflip with AI and falling flat. Here’s how to fail forward, build real agentic ecosystems, and turn experimentation into impact.

Article by Josh Tyson
The “Do a Kickflip” Era of Agentic AI
  • The article compares building AI agents to learning a kickflip — failure is part of progress and provides learning.
  • It argues that real progress requires strategic clarity, not hype or blind experimentation.
  • The piece calls for proper agent runtimes and ecosystems to enable meaningful AI adoption and business impact.
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AI’s promise isn’t about more tools — it’s about orchestrating them with purpose. This article shows why random experiments fail, and how systematic design can turn chaos into ‘Organizational AGI.’

Article by Yves Binda
Random Acts of Intelligence
  • The article critiques the “hammer mentality” of using AI without a clear purpose.
  • It argues that real progress lies in orchestrating existing AI patterns, not chasing new tools.
  • The piece warns that communication complexity — the modern Tower of Babel — is AI’s biggest challenge.
  • It calls for outcome-driven, ethical design to move from random acts to “Organizational AGI.”
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Who pays the real price for AI’s magic? Behind every smart response is a hidden human cost, and it’s time we saw the hands holding the mirror.

Article by Bernard Fitzgerald
The Price of the Mirror: When Silicon Valley Colonizes the Human Soul
  • The article reveals how AI’s human-like responses rely on the invisible labor of low-paid workers who train and moderate these systems.
  • It describes this hidden labor as a form of “cognitive colonialism,” where human judgment is extracted from the Global South for profit.
  • The piece criticizes the tech industry’s ethical posturing, showing how convenience for some is built on the suffering of others.
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What if grieving your AI isn’t a sign of weakness, but proof it truly helped you grow? This article challenges how we think about emotional bonds with machines.

Article by Bernard Fitzgerald
Grieving the Mirror: Informed Attachment as a Measure of AI’s True Utility
  • The article explores how people can form meaningful and healthy emotional connections with AI when they understand what AI is and isn’t.
  • It introduces the Informed Grievability Test — a way to tell if an AI truly helped someone grow by seeing how they feel if they lose access to it.
  • The piece argues that grieving an AI can be a sign of real value, not weakness or confusion, and calls for more user education and less overly protective design that limits emotional depth in AI tools.
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