The Open Source AI Rebellion: Echoes of the Early Linux Days
From Amman, the current open-source AI wave feels uncannily familiar. The same builder energy, the same elite gatekeeping, and the same fight over who gets to shape the future o...
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Latency Is Political When You Live Far from the Center
Latency is usually described as a performance metric. From the edge of the network, it starts to feel more like a power relationship: a reminder of who gets to live close to the center of digital infrastructure and who has to work around the distance.
Read the featured essayThe Power of Jules: A New Era of Software Engineering
Working with Jules gave me a concrete look at what AI coding agents are actually good at: absorbing context, handling the tedious middle, and forcing human engineers to operate...
AI Proxies, LLMs, Arabic Language Performance, and OBSBOT Tiny2 for Podcasting
A grounded look at the AI experiments that have been occupying my evenings: private proxies, Arabic-language reality checks, and an early podcasting setup powered by equal parts...
Understanding Arabic Sentiment Analysis
Arabic sentiment analysis sounds straightforward until dialects, morphology, and limited datasets enter the picture. This piece breaks down why the problem remains both difficul...
Talking to Machines Like They Talk Back: The Enduring Legacy of the ELIZA Effect
Long before ChatGPT, ELIZA showed how quickly humans project empathy, intention, and understanding onto software. That instinct still shapes both the appeal and the risks of mod...
Decoding the AI Black Box: My Enlightening Dialogue with Claude 3.5 Sonnet
A late-night dialogue with Claude 3.5 Sonnet pushed me past the usual AI hype and into the harder questions: opacity, variability, auditability, and how to use these systems wit...
From Code to Canvas: An AI-Fueled Artistic Awakening
What began as technical curiosity turned into something more personal: AI art gave me a low-friction way back into visual creativity and changed how I think about who gets to ma...
SynthID: The AI Watermark That Could Save the Internet
Watermarking systems like SynthID will not solve authenticity on their own, but they may become one of the few practical tools we have for separating provenance from pure guessw...