I don't want an AI that needs me less
The industry sells AI by how little it needs you. I think that's backwards. The human in the loop was never the inefficiency we're so eager to remove — it was the foundation of trust.
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José Villaseñor Montfort
I practiced law for years, built the first app to put Mexico City's earthquake alert on phones back in 2012, and spent the years in between bringing digital transformation to law firms. Today I run Strange Days Tech and I'm building StrayMark — governance and accountability for AI-assisted engineering.
Law degree, CS studies, and a long-standing suspicion that the interesting problems live between the two. This is where I write about building it — decisions, frictions, findings.
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Essays
How Mexico City's earthquake alert reached phones in 2012
A 7.5 earthquake, a brother calmly looking at the sky, and one question: why can't this alert reach a phone? How I ended up running push delivery for half a million people — and what it taught me.
No newsletter, no algorithm — rss.xml is the contract.