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Free-form pieces published as the musings of The Sentient, the human mind behind Sentient Weekly.

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— Latest dispatch · May 12, 2026 —

How do we adopt a new general-use technology in a rapidly evolving state?

How do you, as a leader, successfully implement a program to adopt a new technology that is rapidly evolving in its nascent state?

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April 30, 2026

What is the best prompting style for debugging code? Why not just ask?

I asked Claude to perform a blinded study of 5 prompt styles with a mission to find and fix eight planted bugs in a small Express API. There was a CLEAR winner in both quality AND token efficiency!

April 29, 2026

This Alien Land: Discerning the Unknowable

How do you master a subject which defies the rational experience of your existence? How does one wrap a cohesive framework of understanding around something that has never existed before and has no theoretical limitations?