AiNT Just Words
AI technology write-ups from Pandanus Reach. Where the Diary of an AI Trainer is the view from the workshop chair, this is the longer look under the bonnet; how the tools actually work, what the research really says, and where the whole thing appears to be heading. Straight write-ups, real sources, cited inline.
How Australia Uses Claude
The Anthropic Economic Index says Australia punches at 4.1 times its weight; and the reason is not wealth, it is the friction of the daily task.
The Fortified Vault and the Open Front Door
Two 2026 papers collide: AI agents learning to autonomously exploit the world's most hardened software, while the developers building those tools leave live secret keys exposed in public repositories.
What Vibe Coders Need to Know About Thinking Like a Programmer
Introductory computer science was never only about syntax; the thinking that still matters when the machine writes the code.
The Arab AI Safety Stress Test
Why Arabic dialects are booming while Australian Indigenous languages stay invisible to off-the-shelf AI, and how romanised Arabizi quietly jailbreaks a frontier model.
AI in the Lands of Make-Believe
When the state legally requires the model to hallucinate; second-wave bias, content flooding, and the brittle statistics behind algorithmic authoritarianism.
Coming Soon to the Internet Near You
Bots have overtaken humans online. What that does to the CPU bill, the energy grid, and the 28-year-old advertising model that paid for the free web.
The Shifting Overton Window
Normative drift in what is reasonably acceptable to share with proprietary AI, from Samsung's 2023 code leak to 92 per cent of the Fortune 500.
The Thinking That Survives
A long-form essay on the slogan that promises to retrain everyone for the new jobs, the kind of learning that promise quietly assumes, and the four hard-to-train modes of thinking the evidence suggests will actually carry people across the gap.
The AI Slop-Vigilant Zeitgeist
Detectors, humanisers, and the stigma of AI-assisted writing, all having their year; and why the arms race is real but asymmetric.
Hallucinagentic Formulas: Excel and AI Team Up
Spreadsheets are the invisible architecture of the economy; here is what happens when you put a language model inside the cell.