Steve Robison
Public face for essays, reflections, and the craft behind Living the Poem — from Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.
Essays and notes — some first published on Living the Poem
Building websites since 1994 taught me one durable lesson: shipping reduces the stack. Ten half-open loops feel like drowning. A live site — even a thin one — clears cognitive RAM.
Lately, with Grok ...
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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If metacognition is real in humans, then “real intelligence” in artificial systems will not arrive by scale alone. Scaling improves object-level fluency. Metaco...
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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