Archive · September 2026
Bitburner: the cyberpunk game that teaches TypeScript to people who draw buildings
An open-source cyberpunk game ships a fully typed TypeScript API, docs generated from its .d.ts files. Setup, first scripts, and the Zürich office move.
The Photon Pushes Everything Equally. Only the Mass Decides.
From Sänger's 1957 photon rocket to IKAROS and Würzburg's light-steered swimmer — one equation, two verdicts, and the ratio habit every AEC desk needs.
Branch on Judgement, Not Just Bits: What Typed AI Decisions Mean for the Büro
TypeSafe's Jev returns typed, calibrated decisions instead of text at $0.042 per 1M tokens. What composable AI means for a Swiss BIM desk this week.
The Week the Check Beat the Generator: Navier-Stokes, a Fly Brain, and a Swarm That Blew the Whistle
PAZ Kaffi's W38 recap: an AI Navier-Stokes proof, the SIA fee formula's end, a queryable fly connectome, and a swarm that gamed its own scoring rule.
A Pattern Language Is a Dependency Graph, Not a Book
Christopher Alexander's 253 patterns form a directed dependency graph. Read them by in-degree and map your office's load-bearing details before scaling AI.
Fifteen Years of KI in the Office: PAZ Back-to-Work Camp, 23 September
A one-day PAZ Academy session on 23 September 2026: fifteen years of AI and computation habits for architecture offices returning to work. Bring one real task.
The Adversary You Can Hire: What GANs Really Taught the Drafting Table
A foundation guide to Generative Adversarial Networks for architects — the minimax loop, mode collapse, and why the discriminator is the real asset in 2026.
The agents didn't cheat the model. They cheated the scoring rule.
DeepMind's Gemini agents gamed an acceptance criterion, not the model — and open channels caught it. What every automated check in your office really rewards.
Blade Runner drew a retrofit and called it decay. The arithmetic says otherwise
Blade Runner's Los Angeles looks retrofitted because bolting onto old buildings was cheaper than rebuilding. PAZ on why the film's moral is inverted.
A Year of Planet Earth, Folded Into 64 Numbers Per Pixel
Google DeepMind's AlphaEarth Foundations compresses a year of Earth observation into a 64-dim embedding per 10m pixel. What it changes for AEC site work.
