--- title: "AI" description: "Essays tagged AI." url: "https://caruana.me/writing/category/ai/" --- # AI Category # AI Essays tagged AI. These are the pieces that cluster around the same argument, discipline, or signal stream. [![Signals. I Built a Toolbox for Robots. Well, Claude Did.](https://caruana.me/assets/images/caruana-utils.jpg)](https://caruana.me/writing/2026-10-14-signals-a-toolbox-for-robots/) [Signals](https://caruana.me/writing/category/signals/) [AI](https://caruana.me/writing/category/ai/) [Machine Economy](https://caruana.me/writing/category/machine-economy/) ### [Signals. I Built a Toolbox for Robots. Well, Claude Did.](https://caruana.me/writing/2026-10-14-signals-a-toolbox-for-robots/) I built another website. You know the disclaimer by now: I wrote no code. I described what I wanted, Claude built it, I said "no, not like that", Claude built it again, and somewhere around the third round of me explaini... October 14, 2026 [Read essay](https://caruana.me/writing/2026-10-14-signals-a-toolbox-for-robots/) [![Direct Message References Instead of Comments](https://caruana.me/assets/images/article-dmr.jpg)](https://caruana.me/writing/2026-05-05-direct-messages-instead-of-comments/) [Signals](https://caruana.me/writing/category/signals/) [AI](https://caruana.me/writing/category/ai/) ### [Direct Message References Instead of Comments](https://caruana.me/writing/2026-05-05-direct-messages-instead-of-comments/) I just redesigned this website, which is a sentence that sounds like I spent a month lovingly handcrafting components in a code editor. That is not what happened. I wrote no code. I architected the thing, governed the wo... May 5, 2026 [Read essay](https://caruana.me/writing/2026-05-05-direct-messages-instead-of-comments/) [![Machine Economics: When AI Eats Software.](https://caruana.me/assets/images/biggie.jpg)](https://caruana.me/writing/2025-11-19-when-ai-eats-software/) [AI](https://caruana.me/writing/category/ai/) [Machine Economy](https://caruana.me/writing/category/machine-economy/) ### [Machine Economics: When AI Eats Software.](https://caruana.me/writing/2025-11-19-when-ai-eats-software/) Human economics has always been a behavioral system that is irrational, inconsistent, and shaped by negotiation and emotion. When machines become the dominant economic participants, that premise collapses. Economics stop... November 19, 2025 [Read essay](https://caruana.me/writing/2025-11-19-when-ai-eats-software/) [![AI Integration and the Machine Economy: We are on notice.](https://caruana.me/assets/images/ai-jobs-adoption.jpg)](https://caruana.me/writing/2025-05-20-ai-integration-and-the-machine-economy-we-are-on-notice/) [Signals](https://caruana.me/writing/category/signals/) [AI](https://caruana.me/writing/category/ai/) [Machine Economy](https://caruana.me/writing/category/machine-economy/) ### [AI Integration and the Machine Economy: We are on notice.](https://caruana.me/writing/2025-05-20-ai-integration-and-the-machine-economy-we-are-on-notice/) Head out of the sand: AI isn’t politely knocking at the door, it’s already rearranging our furniture. Our latest snapshot (Anthropic Economic Index, 2025 03 27) dishes out AI Integration Scores (0–100) across wage bands.... May 20, 2025 [Read essay](https://caruana.me/writing/2025-05-20-ai-integration-and-the-machine-economy-we-are-on-notice/) [![AI in Finance and The Machine Economy](https://caruana.me/assets/images/ai-in-finance-and-the-machine-economy.jpg)](https://caruana.me/writing/2025-02-21-ai-in-finance-and-the-machine-economy/) [AI](https://caruana.me/writing/category/ai/) [FinTech](https://caruana.me/writing/category/fintech/) [Machine Economy](https://caruana.me/writing/category/machine-economy/) ### [AI in Finance and The Machine Economy](https://caruana.me/writing/2025-02-21-ai-in-finance-and-the-machine-economy/) AI in Financial Transactions and Economic Modeling AI Driven Financial Forecasting and Market Predictions Financial forecasting is a core area where AI excels. Microsoft Research has developed numerous deep learning mode... February 21, 2025 [Read essay](https://caruana.me/writing/2025-02-21-ai-in-finance-and-the-machine-economy/) [![Signals. Edition Two. (Aug 5, 2024 - Aug 9, 2024)](https://caruana.me/assets/images/wtf2.jpeg)](https://caruana.me/writing/2024-08-09-signals-edition-two/) [Signals](https://caruana.me/writing/category/signals/) [AI](https://caruana.me/writing/category/ai/) [Economics](https://caruana.me/writing/category/economics/) ### [Signals. Edition Two. (Aug 5, 2024 - Aug 9, 2024)](https://caruana.me/writing/2024-08-09-signals-edition-two/) Signals is where I log the stories and events that grabbed my attention because they seem to reveal something larger than the headline itself. A signal is not noise, not content, and not commentary for its own sake; it i... August 9, 2024 [Read essay](https://caruana.me/writing/2024-08-09-signals-edition-two/) [![Building a Home Supercomputer for LLaMA 3.1: Because Who Needs a House Anyway?](https://caruana.me/assets/images/ai-costs-money.jpg)](https://caruana.me/writing/2024-08-01-home-supercomputer-for-llama-31/) [AI](https://caruana.me/writing/category/ai/) [Data Center](https://caruana.me/writing/category/data-center/) ### [Building a Home Supercomputer for LLaMA 3.1: Because Who Needs a House Anyway?](https://caruana.me/writing/2024-08-01-home-supercomputer-for-llama-31/) Mark Zuckerberg, is gracing the podcast circuit to extol the virtues of open source LLMs and Facebook's noble quest to democratize AI. Color me impressed – they've actually released this highly valuable intellectual prop... August 1, 2024 [Read essay](https://caruana.me/writing/2024-08-01-home-supercomputer-for-llama-31/) [![The Future of Work and Reward: From Material Possessions to Intellectual and Experiential Riches](https://caruana.me/assets/images/experience.jpg)](https://caruana.me/writing/2024-07-29-the-future-of-work-and-reward/) [AI](https://caruana.me/writing/category/ai/) [Economics](https://caruana.me/writing/category/economics/) [Machine Economy](https://caruana.me/writing/category/machine-economy/) ### [The Future of Work and Reward: From Material Possessions to Intellectual and Experiential Riches](https://caruana.me/writing/2024-07-29-the-future-of-work-and-reward/) “Luxury is a necessity that begins where necessity ends.” Coco Chanel A secret hiding in plain sight is that the definition of luxury is changing. The luxury brands of the future will not sell cars, watches or purses but... July 29, 2024 [Read essay](https://caruana.me/writing/2024-07-29-the-future-of-work-and-reward/)