Building Tanner: Context Engineering for Humans

Personal assistants used to be a perk for executives. 2025 made them available to anyone willing to build. Here's how I built mine.

Access is the killer feature for LLMs not memory

Cheap prediction. Abundant conviction. Precious judgment.

When prediction becomes abundant through AI, human judgment - the ability to establish and evaluate goals - becomes the scarce and valuable resource.

Fat tails & model collapse

Exploring how AI-generated content narrows the distribution of knowledge and why knowledge workers must seek the edge of chaos.