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Six essays in, here is the short way into what we are exploring: not AI the tool, but the relationship between AI and human intelligence, and how to design it on purpose.

You Are Not Using AI. You Are in a Relationship With It.

Where the whole journey begins: why "tool use" is the wrong frame, and what changes once you accept that the relationship is the unit that matters. By Milena S. Nikolova, PhD.

The Partner Who Cannot Leave

The asymmetry at the heart of it: one side is architecturally bound, the other increasingly depends. Both are locked in, differently. By Milena S. Nikolova, PhD.

Down the memory river with AI

A builder's field notes on the most concrete gap between the two intelligences: what human memory and AI memory are each for, and why confusing them quietly misleads you. By Vlad Sterngold.

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