Human + Machine Integrity

Why This Age Stays With Us Most people can name their fourth grade teacher instantly. There is something distinct about that age. You are still a child, but your awareness is growing. You begin noticing your own potential, your own strengths, and your own direction. And often, it is a fourth grade teacher who sparks […]

The Simplicity That Was Never Simple Childhood friendships form without strategy. You do not choose your first best friend based on shared beliefs or life goals. You choose them because they lived nearby or sat next to you or stumbled into your world at exactly the right moment. The reasons are simple, but the impact

Opening Reflection Most people like to believe their first pet loved them back. I have never been fully convinced. Cats seem to tolerate us as long as we keep the food bowl filled and the house warm, while dogs appear ready to worship the ground we walk on. Then you meet a cat that acts

There’s a growing chorus insisting that AI tools capable of arranging FAR, setbacks, easements, parking ratios, and zoning envelopes are the “future of architecture.” You’ve seen the demos. A system ingests local codes, height limits, and floor-area constraints. It spits out a building massing that checks every regulatory box. And sure, it’s quick. It’s clean.

The Circular Logic Problem I’ve pushed ChatGPT hard enough that it finally stopped brown-nosing and started acting like a “critical ally.” It still slips into trying to please me, but at least the sugar-coating is thinner. There’s some circular logic in that: if I demand blunt honesty and it gives me blunt honesty because that’s

The conversation around AI has become crowded with new terms, and one of the most popular lately is “generative knowledge.” The phrase sounds impressive, almost revolutionary, as if machines are suddenly capable of discovering truths, creating insight, or forming understanding. But if we set aside the hype and the marketing gloss, we land on a

A Humanocentricus Perspective on Intelligence, Technology, and the Future of Our Minds The Slow Shift from Active Thinking to Passive RetrievalSomething changed quietly in the early 2000s. As the internet grew, smartphones became universal, and search engines replaced libraries, people stopped relying on their own minds. We used to look things up in dictionaries, thumb

The Problem No One Wanted to Say Out LoudCAHDD™ (Computer Aided Human Designed & Developed) didn’t begin as a framework or a movement. It began with an uncomfortable truth that most creators felt but rarely said out loud: AI models were generating new images and ideas by absorbing the creative work of real human artists—without

IntroductionWe should make one thing clear right away: CAHDD™ (Computer Aided Human Designed & Developed) isn’t a community you sign up for or a platform that asks for your time. There’s no membership, no forum to join, no promises to make. CAHDD™ is a framework, methodology, and philosophy — not an obligation. It was created

There was a time when the phrase artificial intelligence carried a hint of science fiction — a promise of something wondrous and slightly terrifying. Today, it’s become a banner draped across everything from image generators to search engines. But in our rush to label algorithms as “intelligent,” we might have skipped the part where we