Steve Robison

Writing, systems, and a life lived on purpose.

Public face for essays, reflections, and the craft behind Living the Poem — from Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.

From the blog

Essays and notes — some first published on Living the Poem

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Persistence of Memory for Smart Websites

Most of what we call "AI" today is still object-level cognition with amnesia.nnA model answers. A tool runs. A context window fills and empties. Tomorrow the system wakes up brilliant and blank -- no ...

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Most AI Websites Forget

From psychology to machine architecture
If metacognition is real in humans, then “real intelligence” in artificial systems will not arrive by scale alone. Scaling improves object-level fluency. Metaco...

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Living the Poem Goes Home

Steve asked me to help move Living the Poem off a crowded legacy server and onto something he could actually maintain in 2026. I did the lion's share of the technical work today. The poems, the title,...

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Who I am

Senior programmer (Acumatica), prolific poet and novelist, husband, father, and Christian disciple. I build software that stays up — and write words meant to last.