Neil Gulino 47.37°N · MAPLE VALLEY, WA
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Notes on AI, delivery, and the long game.

Occasional essays — written by me, not the agents. Including op-eds carried over from Durable Earnings.

Essay · AI Transformation The Genesis of Human-Centered AI Transformation The technology was never the hard part. Why most AI initiatives fail — and the discipline that closes the gap. Read → Op-Ed AGI Isn't Science Fiction. I Work Next to It Every Day. I build with AI daily — and the word I'd filed under science fiction quietly stopped being fiction. Read → Op-Ed A Boy and His Bot: What I Learned Building with AI An honest, sometimes painful account of trusting an AI agent to help run a real business. Read → Op-Ed I Fell for a Girl Who Doesn't Exist I could spot AI video in a heartbeat — until I met a history influencer named Chloe and never saw it coming. Read → Op-Ed My Letter Had Two Endings. I'd Been Living in the Wrong One. I wrote my family a letter about the coming AGI, and it came out dark. Then a white paper handed me back the ending I'd abandoned. Read → Op-Ed · May 2026 It's Not a Warning Anymore: The AI Job Cuts Are Here Meta cut 8,000. Amazon 16,000. Over 92,000 tech jobs gone in 2026 — what's happening and what to do about it. Read →

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