Vlad Sterngold
AI-Native Practitioner, Mentor & Coach · Amsterdam
AI practitioner and builder based in Amsterdam. Daily user of AI systems, builder of AI products, and writer on human-AI symbiosis.
Writing by Vlad Sterngold
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Only One of Us Can Be Used Up
A machine cannot burn out. The pair can, and the line to watch is review capacity. Four agents give you four times the unverified work, arriving fastest at the hour the reviewer is worst.
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Buying AI, but Not the Manager
A VP asked what the ROI was on all the tech we had bought. Four weeks later the database was firing one event a day. Companies buy the AI and skip the manager who was supposed to carry it across, and what that person actually supplies is not AI expertise but cover: making it survivable to be visibly bad at something new.
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Relationship Design
AI is not a tool you use or a threat you manage. It is a relationship, it already has terms, and almost nobody chose theirs. The pillar essay: the two asymmetries that make this relationship unlike any other, what the evidence says about drifting into it, and the terms of my own half.
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What Should Be Allowed to Become Memory?
You can move your ChatGPT memory to Claude, and that raises the question nobody asks: what should have been allowed to become memory in the first place? On promotion as the real boundary, forgetting by design, and why a personal memory you cannot take with you is not yours.
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Down the memory river with AI
Why does ChatGPT forget your context, your instructions, the thing you told it ten messages ago? Because AI memory and human memory are not the same kind of thing. A builder's field notes on what each kind of memory is for, and why giving an AI more memory can make it worse.
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Queryable vs Quotable *
Friends on a terrace revealed three different kinds of edge AI hasn't crossed yet — untransferred knowledge, unreachable knowledge, and knowledge that lives in the empty space. Then the AI spoke.
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My API, Not My Resume
Professional identity is changing. The competitive unit is now the human plus their AI team. Most employment contracts don't know this yet.