Of TECH Observatory for Technology

Welcome to OfTech—a running record of one argument: intelligence is distributed, not centralized; the institutions that win are built to deploy rather than wait; and we keep aiming our best tools at the nearest revenue line instead of the problems that matter. Essays, data, and notes on AI, climate, and the gap between what we can build and what we choose to.

I am a product leader, entrepreneur, and environmentalist. My work sits at the edge of AI and climate tech—figuring out how the tools we're building now can help industry move faster toward a sustainable, enjoyable future for humans and our co-habitants of the Earth.

Warren Fauvel

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  • Explorations

    Jul 20, 2026

    Interface Beats Model — the throughput-vs-reading wall

    AI token generation already outpaces humanity's reading capacity, and the gap compounds ~25%/month. A data check on the Winking claim that the interface — not the model — is the bottleneck. The cross-over is real; the proof that interface beats model still needs A/B evidence.

  • Thoughts

    Jun 17, 2026

    Superpower or Superwaste: What AI lacks is a mission

    We built the most powerful reasoning tool in history and aimed it at better marketing funnels. A look at the deployments quietly bending carbon curves — steel, cement, shipping, grids — and an argument for pointing the technology at problems that matter.

  • Thoughts

    Jun 17, 2026

    The Case for Less Software: Why Token Counts Are the New Vanity Metric

    In 1982 Bill Atkinson reported '-2000' lines of code and management stopped asking him to fill in the form. Tokens are the new lines-of-code. Why the benchmark for AI tools will shift from how much they produce to how precisely they think.

  • Thoughts

    Jun 17, 2026

    The Doppler Trap: Why Waiting for Better Tech Backfires in Industry

    Waiting for better technology is individually rational — until a whole industry waits at once and the gap compounds. The durable bet is not picking the winning platform; it is building an organisation that can absorb and deploy change faster than the field.

  • Thoughts

    Jun 17, 2026

    The Intelligence Grind: Why Tech Scouting Runs on Chrome Tabs and Luck

    Technology intelligence fails not through missing information but through missing structure — Chrome tabs, shared drives, and knowledge that walks out the door when someone leaves. The case for systems that are deterministic in method and Bayesian in output.

  • Thoughts

    Jun 17, 2026

    The Knowledge Problem: Why AGI Won't Win and Oracles Will

    The dream of one general intelligence that knows everything is a Hayekian mistake. Why the AI that wins will not be the most general model but thousands of private oracles — shaped by proprietary data and institutional knowledge no general model can hold.

  • Thoughts

    Jun 17, 2026

    The Selfie Problem: Vibe Coding Wins Even if Experts Hate It

    Vibe coding produces a lot of bad software — and so did the camera-phone, desktop publishing, and the Kodak Brownie before it. Why democratised creation wins anyway, what it still leaves to domain expertise, and where the compute divide limits the story.

  • Thoughts

    Jun 17, 2026

    Winking at a Touchscreen: The Interface Problem in Agentic AI

    Agentic AI hands you a finished output and removes the iteration where thinking actually sharpens. The problem is not the model's capability — it is the interface. A case for collaboration over procurement, and keeping humans genuinely in the loop.

  • Explorations

    Jun 11, 2026

    Data Stops at Capital: Mapping the Climate Investment Evidence Gap

    Hard-to-abate sectors produce 13.5% of global emissions but attract under 7.4% of clean investment — here's what the data can and cannot prove.

  • Thoughts

    Jun 1, 2026

    Dig Up Stupid: Investment & Policy in Hard to Abate Sectors

    The cleanest climate investments tell the best stories, but the math of impact lives in steel, cement, shipping... the "dirty industries". Facing that gap is an important step to actually reversing climate change.

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