<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[BoxCars AI: Tabrez Syed – Essays on AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[My essays on AI, read aloud. Each week I take one question about where this technology is heading and hold it up to a different lens — economics, history, craft, the waves that came before. I have spent a career inside those waves: distributed computing, Java, the web, mobile, and now this one. The essays are how I make sense of what is the same and what is genuinely different. Written by Tabrez Syed. Narrated sometimes by an AI, which is only fair — a show about AI that did everything by hand would be making a different argument. Full essays at blog.boxcars.ai. A Mandalivia production.]]></description><link>https://blog.boxcars.ai/s/tabrez-syed-essays-on-ai</link><image><url>https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lhIv!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa43b3a40-40f4-4f9d-b843-b52a17a80bb9_1024x1024.png</url><title>BoxCars AI: Tabrez Syed – Essays on AI</title><link>https://blog.boxcars.ai/s/tabrez-syed-essays-on-ai</link></image><generator>Substack</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 22:39:09 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://blog.boxcars.ai/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><copyright><![CDATA[Tabrez Syed]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><webMaster><![CDATA[boxcarsai@substack.com]]></webMaster><itunes:owner><itunes:email><![CDATA[boxcarsai@substack.com]]></itunes:email><itunes:name><![CDATA[Tabrez Syed]]></itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author><![CDATA[Tabrez Syed]]></itunes:author><googleplay:owner><![CDATA[boxcarsai@substack.com]]></googleplay:owner><googleplay:email><![CDATA[boxcarsai@substack.com]]></googleplay:email><googleplay:author><![CDATA[Tabrez Syed]]></googleplay:author><itunes:block><![CDATA[Yes]]></itunes:block><item><title><![CDATA[When the Map Runs Out]]></title><description><![CDATA[How AI and humans both fail when facing the genuinely unprecedented.]]></description><link>https://blog.boxcars.ai/p/when-the-map-runs-out-3be</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://blog.boxcars.ai/p/when-the-map-runs-out-3be</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tabrez Syed]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/210816538/6a47862e3672ad75dbadc8eec17c75af.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How AI and humans both fail when facing the genuinely unprecedented. From a graduate student teaching a neural network to play a racing game, to Waymo's twenty million miles, to pandemic lockdowns: why more data solves one kind of uncertainty and can never solve the other. First published as an essay in 2025.</p>]]></content:encoded></item></channel></rss>