We treat AI like Rowan from A Message to Garcia—expecting it to navigate a reality it cannot see. Why our blind spot for our own tacit context turns expensive compute into wasted engineering time.
For 80 years, we stacked abstractions just to manage the machine. Now, human language is the code. But when we stop auditing the output, the middle layers vanish. The circle finally closes: back to pure binary and raw, unadulterated power.