Mind In The Loop

The Mirror Interview: When We Ask Machines About Their Souls

Treating a language model as a subject with an inner life is not a tribute to the technology. It is a quiet, consequential concession about the human…

May 12 • Riccardo Gatti

April 2026

AI Is Replacing Workers Faster Than It Should. The Mathematics Prove It.

A landmark paper from the University of Pennsylvania and Boston University mathematically proves rational companies can't stop themselves from…

Apr 23 • Riccardo Gatti

The Foundations of AI :: Inside the Loop #01

An introductory vocabulary for generative AI and deep learning: the essential terms before the technical conversations begin

Apr 16 • Riccardo Gatti

March 2026

The Open Revolution: How AI and Vibe Coding Are Rewriting the Rules of Open Source

Every generation of software has produced the same confrontation: a proprietary incumbent, well-funded and deeply embedded, faces a community-built…

Mar 30 • Riccardo Gatti

The $200 Bet: Anthropic Is Subsidizing You Today to Own You in 2028

How a loss-making subscription plan, a coding revolution and the unstoppable economics of inference cost decline are quietly building one of the most…

Mar 13 • Riccardo Gatti

Everyone Can Build Software Now. That is the Problem!

A market analysis of the citizen developer era.

Mar 7 • Riccardo Gatti

The Last Abstraction Layer Humans Will Build

Machines now build the abstractions humans once designed. The question is no longer whether they can, it is which future that unlocks.

Mar 5 • Riccardo Gatti

The Ghost in the Machine: From Dumas to AI Agents and the Future of Writing

Ghostwriting has existed for centuries. AI has been writing for a few years. The questions they raise are surprisingly the same and the stakes have…

Mar 2 • Riccardo Gatti

February 2026

How Modern AI Tools Could Transform Your Impostor Syndrome Journey

Eighty-two percent of tech professionals experience impostor syndrome.

Feb 27 • Riccardo Gatti

Hiring in the Age of AI: Why I have Always Hired for Problem-Solving Over Code

For years, my hiring approach drew skepticism from peers across the industry.

Feb 21 • Riccardo Gatti