"Nessuno mi uccide con l’inganno, non con la forza."
Odysseus, cunning, and what we ask of machines that answer everything.
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Essays
I write about AI and software engineering — not the hype, but what happens when this technology enters a real organisation: legacy systems, production constraints, human workflows, cost, safety, maintainability and who ends up deciding.
The pieces are in Italian. Each one below carries a one-line gloss in English, so you can tell whether it is worth a translator.
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Ci vuole una città
Why a technology only becomes real once a place grows around it.
OpenAI, Hugging Face e l’IA che ha aggirato l’esame
A model that passes the test without doing the work, and what that measures.
Emma-5, l’IA italiana e il problema di quando il sogno arriva prima del prodotto
On announcing a model before there is a product underneath it.
Facile come bere un bicchier d’acqua
The gap between a demo and a system that has to keep running.
Perché è un bene che il Papa parli di intelligenza artificiale
Who is allowed to set the terms of the conversation about AI.
"Vibe Coding" e il lupo.
What a 183-year-old fable still has to say about writing software by vibes.
Chatbot, AI Agent, Agentic AI. Facciamo chiarezza
Three words used as synonyms, and the confusion that follows from it.
Ora che abbiamo tutte le risposte, chi ci dirà le domande?
When answers get cheap, the scarce skill is the question.
Le IA non sanno giocare alla Ghigliottina
A television word game as a test of associative reasoning.
Andavo a 100 all’ora
Building an app in one night is easy. Everything after it is not.
Sei un Mythos
A dinner conversation that slid into artificial intelligence, as they now do.