AI

More Words, Less Thinking: The Paradoxical Homogenization of AI-Assisted Writing

AI makes writing more eloquent but less original. A Georgetown study of 373,000 college admissions essays found that after ChatGPT became widely available, essays used richer vocabulary but expressed narrower, more similar ideas. The author calls this paradoxical homogenization: the illusion of originality while our thoughts quietly converge.

Building RAG systems over technical documentation

Technical teams sit on large document sets: manuals, SOPs, API specs, incident runbooks. Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) lets a language model answer questions only with evidence drawn from those documents—reducing hallucinations compared with raw prompting.

🚦 Quick Guide: How Model Context Protocol (MCP) Works

What is the Model Context Protocol (MCP)? The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open specification for secure, streamable communication and tooling integration between Language Model clients and servers. It enables language models and their helper agents to share context and resources efficiently—across different platforms, tools, and workflows.