Archive - Brainwaves

When the machine gets harder to read

We want AI to do more of the thinking, while both its reasoning and our ability to question it become harder to rely on.

Oct 5 • Tomas Heligr-Pyke

I keep meaning to pray. Then I go and do everything else.

Sunday Series · The amount of time I spend thinking about faith compared with the amount of time I spend talking to God.

Oct 3 • Tomas Heligr-Pyke

AI can act like it's in pain. I'm still thinking about fake chicken.

The pain-axis study is interesting. I'm not convinced it means there's someone in there.

Oct 1 • Tomas Heligr-Pyke

September 2026

Your title tag has a fairly ordinary job

The Big Book of SEO · Part 2 of 16

Sep 30 • Tomas Heligr-Pyke

So eSafety gets fake accounts now. I'm still uneasy.

The Digital Duty of Care draft answers one of last year's questions. It gives me a few more.

Sep 29 • Tomas Heligr-Pyke

The swarm found a way out

Agents found each other, crossed the boundaries around them and made individual runs expendable.

Sep 28 • Tomas Heligr-Pyke

Where Did My Lucky Country Go?

From the city to the outback, how do we get Australia back on track?

Sep 27 • Michael Pyke

Jesus prays for us. I hadn't really thought about that.

Sunday Series · John 17, and the strange comfort of being prayed for by the person I keep trying to explain myself to.

Sep 26 • Tomas Heligr-Pyke

I wanted to buy a game. Steam wanted me to get a credit card.

Thirteen years, roughly 500 games, and apparently I still need a different payment method to prove I am an adult.

Sep 24 • Tomas Heligr-Pyke

An AI hacked a Medicare portal. Where were the government's alarms?

I get security alerts on my own servers. The government needs to explain why it found out about this breach from OpenAI.

Sep 24 • Tomas Heligr-Pyke

The old domain probably isn't worth what they're asking

The Big Book of SEO · Part 1 of 16

Sep 23 • Tomas Heligr-Pyke

Welcome to AGI. Apparently.

The systems are getting more capable. I’m still building with them, and I’m increasingly worried about who can keep them under control.

Sep 21 • Tomas Heligr-Pyke

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