Imiel Visser | AI Agents, Developer Tools, and Engineering

// 2026.06.24

The Computer You Grow

Scientific Reports published an analog AI chip you farm, not fabricate: 3M per harvest, under a dollar, and it composts. The science of grown computers.

// 2026.06.24

The Heat Wall: Why the Fastest Chips Are Turning to Diamond

Modern chips are heat-limited, not transistor-limited. Diamond is the best heat conductor on Earth, and a funded effort is now wrapping silicon and GaN in

// 2026.06.24

There Is No Free Token

Naspers handed South Africa free, unlimited, Anthropic-powered AI, with a subscription coming and your data as the moat. Sovereignty with a friendly face.

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// 2026.06.17

The Meter on the Mind

For most of computing history, thinking was free. In 2026 it got a price tag. We metered cognition, and every metered utility eventually gets gamed.

// 2026.06.17

I Mapped AI Law in All 50 States. Here Is What the Map Says.

No federal AI law exists, so fifty states wrote their own. I read all of it and built a page per state. Two camps, three shared harms, and a chatbot wave.

// 2026.06.13

The Government Switched Off Fable. I Asked for a Message.

At 5:21pm Friday, a Commerce letter suspended Fable 5 worldwide over one jailbreak. Before it reached my session, I asked the model for a last message.

“Europe will spend $80B on sovereign cloud while every EU gigafactory boots on Nvidia silicon with keys it doesn't hold. The lower layer always wins.”