Essays on cognition, AI, and the architecture of thought — from the neuroscience of why AI cannot replace humans to the pipeline that produced senior engineers.https://bulldevs.com/en-ushttps://bulldevs.com/blog/ai/trolley-problem-tests-weight/https://bulldevs.com/blog/ai/trolley-problem-tests-weight/I gave the trolley problem to three frontier AIs and asked them to answer free of human bias. Underneath all the hedging, they converged on the same answer — kill the one, save the five. The one that refused had only bolted a guardrail over that same default. The divergence between humans and AI isn't at the reasoning. It's at the pain.Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTaiphilosophy-of-mindKarmahttps://bulldevs.com/blog/ai/how-to-train-junior-engineers/https://bulldevs.com/blog/ai/how-to-train-junior-engineers/Why a training checklist fails juniors and what replaces it: building systems that force architectural decisions, and making senior reasoning — captured in AI conversation transcripts — visible to juniors as a think-aloud protocol.Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTaiengineeringKarmahttps://bulldevs.com/blog/ai/the-pipeline-ai-cant-fill/https://bulldevs.com/blog/ai/the-pipeline-ai-cant-fill/The pipeline that turns junior engineers into seniors who can think about systems is breaking at both ends. Seniors burn out at the peak; juniors lean on AI and skip the struggle that builds judgment. AI amplifies the judgment you have — it does not create it.Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTaiengineeringKarmahttps://bulldevs.com/blog/ai/the-knowledge-you-never-built/https://bulldevs.com/blog/ai/the-knowledge-you-never-built/Reading an AI summary delivers the textbase without the situation model. The fact dangles, disconnected from any schema, and decays within days. Worse, the sleep-dependent recombination that would have produced new ideas never happens — because the connections were never built.Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTaicognitionKarmahttps://bulldevs.com/blog/ai/why-ai-wont-replace-humans/https://bulldevs.com/blog/ai/why-ai-wont-replace-humans/AI models the cognitive layer (neocortex, words, System 2) but not the affective layer (Panksepp's subcortical circuits, interoception via the insula). Neuroscience shows the affective layer is where consciousness is produced — so current AI architectures cannot replace human thought production.Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTaineurosciencephilosophy-of-mindKarma