La Fontaine’s grasshopper is dead, long live the parasite. The ants have held the world together for centuries. They drained the swamps, lifted the stones, drew the plans, opened the…
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📌 Friday mood post 📌
🧘♂️ Ever get the feeling your company has gone slightly off the rails?
That between two “strategic alignment” meetings and three “co-intentionality bubbles,” no one really knows why they’re here—but everyone’s doing it with remarkable depth?
Then you might have a Kevin nearby.
This (barely exaggerated) piece, excerpted from my upcoming book Kevin, Chief Bullshit Officer, takes you through a typical day in the life of a professional in conscious indecision, a paradox whisperer, and master of vibrational presence.
🌀 It’s funny.
🌀 It’s absurd.
🌀 And if it feels a little too familiar, you may be living in a bullshit-woke-green-complacent ecosystem, where asking a critical question is seen as “creating dissonance in the collective flow.”
Behind the parody lies a sharp (and slightly chilling) X-ray of what work becomes when meaning is replaced by motion-design storytelling, and reality by “shared vibrations.”
Enjoy the read. And if you meet a Kevin, stay calm, breathe… and whatever you do, don’t ask what he actually does. You might get an answer.
#InvisibleLeadership #CorporateBullshit #OfficeSatire #WokeWashing
HackAtari, or how a deceptively simple test brought the most sophisticated AIs to their knees.
They used to dominate video games. Boasted superhuman performance. And then one day, the games were made easier. The result? They collapsed.
Why? Because they never truly understood what they were doing.
And that’s where everything shifts.
In a study as brilliant as it is unsettling, Quentin Delfosse and his team expose a powerful illusion: that of systems which excel… as long as nothing changes.
They came up with HackAtari, a clever test built on simplified versions of classic Atari games. A test that, instead of making tasks harder, makes them easier — and yet it uncovers a glaring weakness. Because when you remove the obstacles, the AIs stumble. Where a human adapts and makes sense of the change, the machine falls apart.
What does HackAtari really tell us? That an AI can ace the exam… without ever understanding the questions. That it can repeat, optimize, correlate… without ever reasoning.
What if our AIs were, in truth, nothing more than top-of-the-class students — reciting without understanding?
👉 This isn’t a performance test, it’s a truth test. One that doesn’t measure what an AI does, but what it understands. And it leaves us with a quietly disturbing question: Do our AIs actually understand what they’re doing?
🤖 Imagine. It’s an ordinary morning in Paris. Cerise, a seasoned developer, settles at her desk… until her AI assistant, “Ada,” begins suggesting sophisticated architectural improvements. Suggestions so relevant they sometimes surpass her own level of expertise.
This scene, far from fictional, raises THE question haunting our era: are we at the dawn of truly autonomous AI?
I’ll take you behind the scenes of this silent revolution. Through the story of Cerise and Ada, discover:
✨ The real (and surprising) capabilities of current AI 🧠 The technical obstacles still holding back their autonomy 🔮 The technological breakthroughs changing the game 🤝 How an unprecedented human-AI collaboration is taking shape
Between educational fiction and technical reality, this article separates fact from fiction in the debate about AI autonomy. Because understanding these issues means preparing for a future where intelligence—both human and artificial—is reinventing itself before our eyes.
💡 “It’s not a zero-sum game where one must dominate the other, but a complex dance where each partner enriches the other.”
## 📌 Friday Mood Post 📌
🧘♂️ What if silence became our last space of freedom?
At a time when everyone is “speaking out” at all costs, when even the faintest opinion turns into an “engaged” post (for lack of real action in real life), saying nothing is almost… an act of resistance.
And maybe, just maybe, staying silent is one of the last true forms of intelligence.