@jimschweizer
AI Researcher, Photographer, Historian... and a little bit of this and that. Living in Aurora, IL, living large in the Fox Valley and an occasional visitor to our suburb to the east, Chicago, or is that Naperville... a once and future digital nomad.
#AI gives you a place to finally say the thing out loud. To find the words. To figure out which part of the mess is actually shareable.
But then you still have to make the phone call.
The machine can help you find the crack in the wall. Only another human can walk through it with you.
Monday morning. World's a lot to think about right now.
Vibe coding is real. The continuity problem it exposes is realer.
If you need 5 minutes on something you can actually do something about, read:
Everyone Can Vibe an App Now
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"By the end of 2027, it threatened every business model predicated on intermediation. Swaths of companies built on monetizing friction for humans disintegrated."
www.citriniresearch.com/p/2028gic
Remember Google Glass or Clawdbot? Yeah, me too.
Sometimes the gamechanger... doesn't change the game.
Vibe coding is here to stay. BUT there's a catch nobody's talking about at the demo.👇
Everyone Can Vibe an App Now
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High School students in Aurora, IL protest ICE.
Another pic of local high school students being patriotic Americans.
High school students march in protest, Feb. 2026 Aurora IL
High School students in Aurora take the day off and take it to the streets! We will all be doing this soon enough.
Thousands of protesters shut down parts of Minneapolis and St. Paul on Friday as hundreds of businesses closed their doors. David Guttenfelder/The New York Times
genuinely stunning image
Open Source, runs locally, autonomous and protects your AI data sovereignty - what's not to like about a clone of Claude Code? I'm going to find out today!
block.github.io/goose/
In case the long weekend buried this:
"Vibe coding" went from meme to mainstream in under 12 months. If you're still wondering whether AI is "real," you're already behind.
Catch up below.
#VibeCoding #AI #FutureOfWork
Vibe Coding in Aurora, IL?
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I wrote about that "Internet moment" I mentioned yesterday. What happens when AI stops being a tool and starts being a collaborator? It's happening now - in Aurora, IL of all places.
#VibeCoding #ClaudeCode #BuildInPublic
Vibe Coding in Aurora, IL?
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Been "vibe coding" ideas with Claude Code for a couple of weeks. My thinking about workflow will never be the same.
Remember that moment when you really internalized the realization that the Internet would change your life?
It's that kind of moment.
LLMs? Yesterday's news.
LRMs? Here now.
LAMs? Coming fast.
The question isn't keeping up. It's building something that survives the parade.
Building an AI Partnership
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Most Chicagoland natives don't know: Aurora's founder arrived in 1834 to find a thriving Potawatomi village. The chief's lodge was engineered so well, a professional millwright marveled at it. (Multiple AIs were used in writing this fiction.)
Fish for Bread
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"We know it works. We don't know why it works. And honestly, we're moving too fast to figure that out."
Sound familiar?
The Preservation Problem
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Multi-Platform Reality
Real talk: I use multiple AIs for different things.
This week Google's ahead, so I'm exploring their ecosystem more deeply.
Which AIs are in your toolkit? Why?
AI Leaderboard
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Week 3: The question that's reshaping how we think about AI value: "Which AI is smartest?" vs "Which combination creates the intelligence my work actually needs?" One keeps you on the leaderboard treadmill. The other puts you ahead of it.
The Intelligence Between
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Tomorrow, Week 3 of our relational AI series:
jimschweizer.substack.com
Here's a quick recap of our AI collaboration series:
Week 1: Your AI is making you faster at working wrong
Week 2: The problem isn't capability - it's memory. (link below) Current AI remembers what you said but forgets why it mattered
The Completeness Principle
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This Thanksgiving, be grateful your family remembers why things matter, not just what was said. Your AI? Not so much. Week 2 of our relational AI discussion explores why dimensional memory beats data retrieval every time.
The Completeness Principle
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The looming divide: one sees AI as liberation, another sees loss of authenticity, autonomy erosion, and reduction of humans to optimization targets. A synthesis of selective AI augmentation, democratic governance, and recognition that some domains should remain primarily human offers a third path.
Are your AIs making you incredibly efficient at the wrong things? Here's why companies with massive AI innovation plans aren't seeing their bottom lines improve - and what you can do about it in your planning.
Your AI is Making You Faster
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The people who need to read this don't yet know they're in this field. They are in your kitchen, your friend's house and on every corner of every block. Relational AI is already here, people are already doing it, but you haven't really thought about it, yet.
jimschweizer.substack.com/p/the-archit...
Crypto loses billions to fraud. Aurora, IL wastes IT money on Vegas junkets. Bob's not anti-technology or anti-government, he's just pro-accountability. Neither has earned his trust. Yet.
jimschweizer.substack.com/p/bobs-thoug...
Laughed so hard at this that a Japanese woman on the shinkansen shushed me
A government that will lie about everything from warfare to welfare isn’t going to make an exception for an ongoing pandemic.
Covid is not over.
So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube.
Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).
*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”
youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc
Our latest Substack explores what happens when your AI knows you better than your therapist, why empathy atrophy is now a technical term, and whether we're building humanity's greatest productivity unlock or most sophisticated self-distraction mechanism.
jimschweizer.substack.com/p/the-relati...
The face of urban #AuroraIL economic development was/is just beginning to shine with new downtown living space next to the train station:
