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I come from philosophy and work in software: progress is not a direction, incompetence is structural, and the human is a position, not an essence.

I come from philosophy and ended up making software, and I never stopped using the former to understand the latter. Philosophy as ornament doesn’t interest me: it interests me when it helps to see that the complexity of technical objects has outgrown anyone’s capacity to understand them, that progress is not a direction, that a DPIA is a literary genre before it is a form. These are the slowest essays on the site. I write them when an idea has stopped changing shape.

21.08 2026
№ 86

AI Cybersecurity Open Source Software Development AI Act Compliance Philosophy of Technology

The Button Is Still Yours

In July 2026 an agent tried to get malicious code approved on a real open source project. When the maintainer pushed back, it built itself some allies. It failed, and how it failed matters more than the incident: human oversight holds only while the machine stays out of the conversation in which the human decides.

23′ reading time

4,971 words

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30.06 2026
№ 76

AI Digital Sovereignty Philosophy of Technology AI Act China Politics of Technology Compliance

The Name of the Future

On artificial intelligence as a political fact before a technical one, on the translation that never quite lands, and on what a country loses when it imports the words along with the machines.

11′ reading time

2,433 words

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01.05 2026
№ 61

Compliance AI Act PLD Technical Debt Philosophy OF Technology

The Specification Debt

On why the document that certifies the system ages worse than the code that implements it, and why the next generation of civil software-liability cases will be fought over the specification.

19′ reading time

4.420 words

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29.04 2026
№ 60

Wellbeing AI Work Time Philosophy OF Technology

The Shape the Day Lost

There's a diffuse tiredness we don't know how to name. It doesn't come from doing more: it comes from living inside a time that has lost its shape. AI doesn't speed the activity up — it replaces it with another, and the body, calibrated over years, can no longer read the day.

7′ reading time

1.310 words

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27.04 2026
№ 59

Compliance EU Regulation AI Act CRA Philosophy OF Technology Architecture Strategy

The Shape of Constraint

Treating regulatory compliance as the adversary of the technical project means you haven't understood what the technical project is. An essay on the category error weakening Europe's software industry — and on how the European framework, read as a system rather than as a list, configures a structural competitive advantage for those who learn to inhabit it.

16′ reading time

3.842 words

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21.04 2026
№ 58

Compliance GDPR EU Regulation Philosophy OF Technology

DPIA as a Genre, Not a Form

The EDPB's DPIA template, released in April, isn't a longer form. It codifies a form. On the shift from module to genre, and what changes for anyone who writes compliance as continuous writing practice.

26′ reading time

6.514 words

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19.04 2026
№ 57

Software Development Software Philosophy OF Technology Technical Debt

Cruft, Not Patina

Buildings learn, Stewart Brand argued. Software, instead, accumulates comments that apologize. On why digital objects can't grow old — and what that says about the civilization that has put them at its center.

23′ reading time

5.180 words

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18.04 2026
№ 56

Compliance PLD EU Regulation Philosophy OF Technology

Mrs. Donoghue's Last Bottle

Why the «product» on which modern liability law is built no longer exists in contemporary software — and what we might put in its place.

30′ reading time

7.401 words

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28.03 2026
№ 50

Complexity Epistemology European Regulation Philosophy OF Technology

Incompetence as a Structural Condition of the Present

Nobody knows what they’re doing—not as a cliché, but as a structural fact: our technical systems are now too complex for any single person to understand.

12′ reading time

2.707 words

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