OpenAI, the Pentagon, and the Truth About Autonomous Warfare

There was a moment on Friday, February 27, 2026, that we'll remember for a long time. Sam Altman sent an internal memo to his staff. It was clear and surprisingly principled. Humans stay in the loop on high-stakes decisions. OpenAI's technology will never be used for mass surveillance.

By Friday evening, he announced a classified contract with the Pentagon. Same day. What happened?

What Anthropic Actually Did

To understand what OpenAI agreed to, you first have to understand what Anthropic refused.

The Pentagon warned it would end the military contract unless Anthropic agreed to change its terms. They wanted to allow what the military referred to as "all lawful use" of its technology. Anthropic said no. Specifically, they drew hard lines against mass domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons. They held those lines publicly. They paid for it.

The retaliation was severe enough to warrant attention on its own. The military threatened to designate Anthropic as

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LLMs ARE STUPID, LITTLE LIARS: The Bombshell Study That Blows Up Everything Tech Bros Ever Told You About AI

When I was growing up, I loved the Tower of Hanoi. At age seven, I solved it. Turns out, neither GPT, Claude, Gemini, nor the likes can. So, I had to laugh when Sam Altman said last year, “GPT-5 is a legitimate PhD-level model.” This claim is not just marketing puffery. It is blatantly false.

You see this on LinkedIn. Everyone is trying to figure out how to win on LinkedIn right now. And the common advice I see every single day is to post more. Use AI to scale. 10x your content. Don't write one post, write 10. Which is the worst advice you could possibly follow right now? That is the average consultant strategy. You are flooding the market with average correlations. You show your potential clients that you can achieve mediocrity on a big scale. You are proving that you don't have original thoughts.

To understand how incapable LLMs really are, let’s look at the Towers of Hanoi.

The puzzle is probably sitting in a dusty box in a kindergarten classroom somewhere. Three pegs. Eight to ...

Exposed. The 7 Deadly AI-Slop Sins That Cost Your Reputation

AI slop is poisoning LinkedIn. And users have had enough. They basically put the entire business model of the modern knowledge worker on trial. That's really the only way to describe it.

When you are a consultant or provide any other kind of knowledge-based services, then your product is your brain. And if you just look at the surface level, scrolling through LinkedIn (or Twitter, for that matter) right now, the mood in the industry feels different.

It's a party. It really is.

Everyone is popping champagne.

It feels like a golden age for productivity. You talk to consultants, you talk to founders, and they're all saying the same thing: "I have finally cloned myself. I'm everywhere."

They're using AI to write faster. They're on LinkedIn five days a week, three times per day. They have a newsletter. They're churning out these white papers. The bottleneck used to be: "I just don't have time to write." And the general consensus is that the bottleneck is gone.

But here is the thing. A...

LinkedIn Feed Collapse. Why Readers Stop Trusting You.

This year, more people will use ChatGPT and LLMs to damage their reputations than to build them. Let me ask you this: When was the last time you spent time on LinkedIn without wondering, “Is this written by a person, or generated by AI?” Before I show you how to make AI sound better than the rest, let me make the case.

I’ve just searched Reddit for posts about LinkedIn and AI. People are raging: “Half the posts are AI-generated now. So there is just no reason to scroll anymore. I check my messages once a week, and that’s it,” says one user

But even LinkedIn-related posts about fake AI-generated posts are fake. In one such thread, another user comments: “This is an entertaining post even if faked, but if people start doing this, it'll make LinkedIn profiles like car bumper stickers, full of random nonsense, much of it offensive.”

It’s everywhere right now.

Emails sound smooth but empty, polished but generic, confident without stakes. Common signs include sentences that explain rathe...

LinkedIn AI Automation in 2026. The Fastest Way to Get Banned.

Have you noticed how AI in 2025 trained us to use speed? More reports. More analysis. More social media posts, etc. But has that also trained us to smell the use of AI right away? Perhaps you have experienced how many people sound confident and have no clue what they are talking about?

Well, the latter was a problem before AI. As John Cleese stated so eloquently eleven years ago: "You see, if you’re very, very stupid, how can you possibly realize that you’re very, very stupid? You’d have to be relatively intelligent to realize how stupid you are…"

So here we are. It’s the New Year. We copy and paste AI content like madmen. Maybe you, too, have once or twice responded to a LinkedIn comment by asking GPT for a response without even reading or understanding it. I see it every day. The em dash is the easiest tell. But there are many others. We suspect AI-generated content even when it's not there. Trust is down the drain. When someone invites us to connect on LinkedIn, we immediately exp...

AI in 2026. Which Experts Will Still Win Next Year?

In 2023 and 2024, boutique consultants could still get paid to explain what a prompt is. In 2025, that window closed.

Executives stopped being impressed by the tool and began to judge the operator. ChatGPT moved from a shiny object to boring infrastructure. The buyers who sign serious checks now assume you can use it. Competence is the floor, not the fee.

Remember web community managers in 2002? These were among the best-paying jobs back then. By the time I organized a Web Managers Roundtable at The World Bank headquarters in Washington, DC, it was already entry-level. It did not die. It got renamed, sliced up, and buried inside other titles. It's the job of volunteers or virtual assistants in free Facebook groups and forums like Slack, Discord, Substack, Circle, or Skool.

ChatGPT-related expertise is facing the same journey into oblivion. Here's why:

1. AI moved from “toy” to the default operating system for knowledge work

Things that matter here:

ChatGPT hits 700M, then 800M

AI Will Gladly Think For You. It'll Make You Dumb.

If you sell high-stakes advice, you are standing in a quiet war right now. On one side, you have AI, fast and tireless. It cleans data, drafts reports, and stitches together insights in minutes. On the other side, you have the only thing that earns your premium fee. Your judgment under pressure.

The danger is not that AI will replace you. The danger is that you will let it practice for you until your own knowledge evaporates and judgment goes soft.

A few months ago, it shocked me when it happened to me. I went on a sales call with a prospect who was so grateful for all the support I'd given her on LinkedIn. I couldn't even remember what I posted at all, like, that morning. Let alone how I interacted with her content last week.

That's when I realized I actually knew nothing of her work and background because AI had done most of the work for me commenting on her posts, respond to comments, and even sharing her content.

For one, I felt like a fake. Not a reputation, I'd like to have. ...

The Death of Information: The End of Knowing Is Here

Information is dead. Not dying. Dead. AI now writes faster, analyzes cleaner, and finds patterns that used to take consultants days or weeks. The slide deck you once sold as a deliverable for your $25,000 discovery? A prompt can generate it in 25 seconds.

AI doesn’t just speed up what humans did; it changes what counts as work. It writes faster than any copywriter, builds decks in seconds, and analyzes data without fatigue or bias. It makes “knowing” a commodity.

That means your old selling point, knowing more than your client, is gone. Consultants once sold access to information. You gathered insights from interviews, audits, or benchmarks. Then you packaged them as frameworks and slides that looked exclusive. The client paid because they couldn’t see the whole picture without you.

Now, that picture is generated instantly. AI can produce a polished deck, complete with visual patterns, recommendations, and action plans, before your client even books a discovery call.

So what’s left...

The AI-Reality Check Against Business Mediocrity

A Battle Cry for Original Intelligence

Most companies are not getting the return they expected from AI. A recent report from MIT noted that 95 percent of organizations see no measurable ROI from their generative AI investments.

Here is why. The race for efficiency has left many firms drowning in sameness. Generative AI is a machine for conformity. Generative models predict the next most probable token. GPT doesn’t think. It averages. It predicts the next likely word based on what most people would write, believe, or do. They complete groupthink patterns. They do not create intent. They do not hold a point of view. When teams feed the same models the same prompts, outputs converge. Convergence produces polished sameness. Polished sameness feels safe. It does not win.

True value comes from outsiders who resist groupthink and push beyond the idea space. Einstein rewrote physics from a patent desk, not a committee. Curie refined radium in a shed, not a boardroom. Tesla worked alone whil...

Newly Discovered Personality Type Reveals: The Best Consultants Don’t Belong

If you are a subscriber to my blog and reading this, you also might be one of these rare personality types they have just discovered.

Does this story resonate with you?

I was on stage in a hotel ballroom. Bright lights. Big crowd. I told a story about a client who tripled revenue from a trailer. People laughed. People were off the chairs. They danced. I wrapped. Applause.

After my talk, I headed straight to the restroom. Not because I needed it. Because I needed the quiet.

That’s the tell. If you are an extrovert on stage and an introvert off, you might be an otrovert.

You can tune into one mind like a Bluetooth signal. But you can’t connect with a crowd like Wifi.

For example, I dislike the standing part of receptions with superficial small talk. I am the guy with a glass of red wine in his hands somewhere on the edge of the crowd. I don’t know how to connect with the collective. But I am known for my Mr. Spock-like ability to mind-melt with individuals. That’s why I love the si...

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