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November 1, 2026 · Notes from the Shore · 24
The next AI doesn't predict words.
Yann LeCun left Meta to build JEPA — machines that learn what the world will do next instead of what the next word will be. A plain-English tour of world models, and what you can actually use today.
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October 31, 2026 · Notes from the Shore · 23
Providers are trying to make you identify with your agent.
The mascots are cute, the voices feel warm, and the emotion is engineered. Every provider wants you to relate to your agent like it has a self. Don’t fall for it.
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October 30, 2026 · Notes from the Shore · 22
Agent means everything. So it means nothing.
Two people asked what an agent is and neither got an answer, because there isn’t one. The word covers the model, the loop, and the whole product — and the formal definitions contradict each other.
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October 28, 2026 · Notes from the Shore · 21
Everyone was watching the bicycle.
In 1896 the bicycle boom took every share price and every headline. Meanwhile the light bulb, the camera, and the pen arrived in the same years and shipped quietly — the book’s Gene noticed the whole period, and the period kept getting longer.
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October 27, 2026 · Notes from the Shore · 20
The pauses are load-bearing.
People say agent when they mean model and model when they mean agent. The proof of which one my book is about was in the first chapter all along — a pause you could feel the thinking through.
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