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A model that answers every question fluently tempts us to call it conscious. The fluency is real; the leap is not. Notes from writing The Illusion of Conscious AI.
Read article↗Advaita Vedanta asks what is always present; Buddhism asks what happens when we stop clinging. Two paths through suffering — and what they taught me about framing problems.
Read article↗The useful version of AI is not a chatbot on a landing page. It is the boring workflow that gives back six hours before lunch. How I decide what to automate — and what to leave human.
Read article↗Leakage is rarely a single dramatic failure. It is a hundred small mismatches between what was provisioned, what was billed and what was actually collected.
Read article↗A reconciliation that only proves two totals match is half a control. The useful half is the one that tells you why they did not.
Read article↗AI has not replaced judgement in revenue assurance. It has removed the hours of preparation that used to sit in front of the judgement.
Read article↗A career that moved from testing software to owning payment assurance, and what each step contributed to how I read a number today.
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