Archive - BoxCars AI

Bring Someone Who Wants You to Lose

Good work needs an opponent. Most AI workflows don’t have one.

May 21 • Tabrez Syed

To Think Is to Forget

How my agent and I learned to throw things away.

May 14 • Tabrez Syed

Simplicity has a smaller market.

May 7 • Tabrez Syed

April 2026

The hedonic treadmill doesn’t just dull wonder. It dissolves fear too.

Apr 30 • Tabrez Syed

When Exponentials Turn Out to Be S-Curves

The world is curved. We keep drawing lines.

Apr 23 • Tabrez Syed

The Disappearing Harness

Harnesses exist to direct dumb power. What happens when the power isn’t dumb?

Apr 16 • Tabrez Syed

From Second Brain to Shared Brain

The hottest idea in AI this week is something a German sociologist figured out with index cards in 1953.

Apr 9 • Tabrez Syed

When creative barriers drop, a rush follows. What happens after is the interesting part.

Apr 2 • Tabrez Syed

March 2026

The Promotion I Missed

What managing a new hire taught me about working with AI

Mar 26 • Tabrez Syed

The Poorly Lit Factory

What a tent in a Tesla parking lot tells us about the future of AI-generated code

Mar 19 • Tabrez Syed

The Dream of the Serpent

AI solved an open math problem and outperformed a world-class engineer. The process looked a lot like genius.

Mar 12 • Tabrez Syed

When the Walls Come Down

What happens when the cost of replicating software drops to near zero?

Mar 5 • Tabrez Syed

#nojs-banner { position: fixed; bottom: 0; left: 0; padding: 16px 16px 16px 32px; width: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; background: red; color: white; font-family: -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 13px; line-height: 13px; } #nojs-banner a { color: inherit; text-decoration: underline; } This site requires JavaScript to run correctly. Please turn on JavaScript or unblock scripts