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Me on a rock below a snow-dusted ridge, looking out across the glen
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Jagged limestone peaks and green slopes mirrored almost perfectly in the still water of Seealpsee, an alpine lake in the Alpstein, Switzerland.
5 stops · 27 September 2026

Are AI Agents Lying? Hallucination, Scheming and Intent
A narrow dirt path winds through brown heather moorland and disappears into thick fog, with only a few rocks visible beside it.

Can an AI Decide Anything? Agency and the Words We Use

5 stops · 27 September 2026 A lone hiker with a backpack stands on a boulder-strewn ridge, looking out over the brown hills and small lochans of the Scottish Highlands under a heavy grey sky.

Is AI Just Math? The Stochastic Parrot Debate, Both Sides

5 stops · 25 September 2026 NREL map titled "Data Center Infrastructure in the United States, 2025", showing US data center locations as yellow, orange and white circles sized by demand capacity in megawatts over the electric transmission and fiber optic networks, with dense clusters around northern Virginia, Dallas, Phoenix and Atlanta.

AI Data Centers: What the Numbers Say, and Who Made Them

8 stops · 6 September 2026 Two women operating the ENIAC computer around 1946: one stands at the left-hand control panel while the other adjusts a bank of switches and patch cables on the machine, in a room lined with equipment racks.

The Psychology of Software Development in the AI Era

7 stops · 4 September 2026
All 7 trails
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Stops worth the detour

Reusable stops from the catalog. Each one has a page of its own, and the trails it was walked on.

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Misinformation Review article page showing a red Commentary tag, the headline 'New sources of inaccuracy? A conceptual framework for studying AI hallucinations,' dated August 27, 2025, above an italicized opening paragraph about Google's AI Overview AI and Developer Psychology

Why AI Hallucinations Are a Distinct Kind of Misinformation

In Are AI Agents Lying? Hallucination, Scheming and Intent OpenAI research page on a black background titled Detecting and reducing scheming in AI models, dated September 17, 2025, with a short standfirst, a Read the paper button, and a key-findings list in the left margin AI and Developer Psychology

OpenAI and Apollo Research Test Frontier Models for AI Scheming

In Are AI Agents Lying? Hallucination, Scheming and Intent Tech Times article "Fable 5.1 System Card: Public AI Tops Restricted Model on Stealth, Gets Bioweapons Label" by Earl Bensen, published September 3, 2026, showing butterflies and moths arranged into the shape of the numeral 5, with a sidebar ad beside the headline AI and Developer Psychology

Anthropic's Fable 5.1 System Card on Stealth and Monitor Evasion

In Are AI Agents Lying? Hallucination, Scheming and Intent Transformer article "GPT-6 Astra might be too powerful to understand or control" by Celia Ford, dated Sep 04, 2026, above a spiral galaxy image labelled GPT and Astra AI and Developer Psychology

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra might be too powerful to understand or control

In Are AI Agents Lying? Hallucination, Scheming and Intent
Six black and white pictures of Brian — three at a keyboard from 2000 to 2025, three on trails in Scotland and Switzerland
Keyboards on the left, trails on the right. 2000 to 2025.
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I walk, kayak, bike and build tools.

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By day I work as a senior consultant and help customers improve their IT landscape. In my free time I build PackLite for hikers. The content comes out of a small content factory I run on the side.

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