Tracing the evolution from pattern recognition to intersection discovery—and asking whether AI can take the final leap. Human knowledge forms a multidimensional lattice; ideas emerge where concepts converge. AI explores intersections at unprecedented scale, but can it create entirely new conceptual dimensions? That capability might mark the arrival of true intelligence—or the question itself might be wrong.
The internet was built for humans. Then machines started talking to each other in the background. Now AI is becoming the primary consumer of web content, and websites are adapting to serve it. Cloudflare just made that adaptation trivial.
The internet is quietly being hollowed out. As AI answers our questions directly, we stop visiting the websites that created the knowledge in the first place. What happens when the infrastructure of human knowledge loses its economic foundation?
I loved the em dash for its messy elegance. Now it just makes my writing look like it was spat out by a language model.