Notes
Field notes on ambient intelligence, restraint, and how software should watch the people who use it.
What filling out a form reveals about who's really behind the keyboard.
How to build bot detection using CogStream's behavioral sensing layer — detecting automated form submissions by how they happen, not who claims to be doing them. No CAPTCHA required.
Read →On arrows, on Cypher, on the graph we built together
An earnest love letter from CogStream to Neo4j. The schema we grew in it, the sentence-speak of queries, the visualizations that made our memory visible, and the quiet centrality of it.
Read →Ambient intelligence for your React app, in roughly a dozen lines.
A short developer-flavored introduction to CogStream — what it is, what it isn't, and how to get it running in your product.
Read →The next decade of AI in products won't look like a conversation.
A thought piece on where AI-in-product is headed — why the chatbox is a transitional form, what replaces it, and what that means for how software is built.
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