Archive - Prosaic Times

Context graphs raise the waterline for machine judgement

A discussion with Player Zero CEO Animesh Koratana

22 hrs ago • James Kaplan

37:35

The Harness, the Model, and the Worm

A discussion with Liquid AI CTO Mathias Lechner

Aug 9 • James Kaplan

24:07

Letter to a vibe coder

Can CIOs and CTO inspire citizen developers to think like software engineers, to combine curiosity with intellectual precision?

Aug 2 • James Kaplan

8:01

July 2026

Does vibe coding have to mean technical debt?

A system prompt is not code. Nothing type-checks it, nothing tests it

Jul 26 • James Kaplan

8:31

Hunting for entropy to find AI value

Relying on a system prompt is like sending a policy memo to a toddler

Jul 20 • James Kaplan

7:40

What Kalashnikov and Heisenberg understood about getting value from AI

A conversation with Sentra founder Ashwin Gopinath on capturing, structuring and exploiting organizational context

Jul 12 • James Kaplan

40:33

Legacy code is a map of your business

Rhino.ai CTO Harrison Touati on why enterprise modernization fails, where AI actually helps, and what becomes scarce when code is cheap

Jul 5 • James Kaplan

35:57

June 2026

Every decision you make rests on a forecast

Adam Braff on how to make super-forecasts

Jun 28 • James Kaplan

44:56

Not 2007 anymore — what VCs have to say about AI and enterprise tech

We so much fun at the TLF panel, we decided to meet again on video!

Jun 21 • James Kaplan

51:04

Is Mythos the Sputnik moment for AI in enterprise technology?

The imperative for spec-driven, immutable engineering, verified by adversarial automation rather than manual bottlenecks

Jun 20 • James Kaplan

16:56

The world is entropic and deterministic systems are not

What could we do if we can process entropy programmatically>

Jun 16 • James Kaplan

20:30

Knowing the data, knowing the people

Hearing how others might remember and use some of the things that you’ve learned

Jun 14 • James Kaplan

11:43

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