Welcome to Weighted Thoughts
Where engineering meets philosophy — and argues about it
I’ve been writing on LinkedIn — long-form articles on open source sustainability, AI, and the things that happen when engineering meets philosophy. The response surprised me. People wanted to argue, agree, push back, and think harder. LinkedIn is great for reach, but it’s not built for that kind of conversation.
So I’m moving my writing here.
Weighted Thoughts is where I’ll publish pieces that sit at the intersection of technology and the questions technology raises. Things like:
Why open source infrastructure keeps collapsing, and what the music industry figured out a century ago that software hasn’t
Whether the line between pattern matching and thinking actually exists
What the future engineering team looks like when half the team isn’t human
The things you learn about cognition at 2am while waiting for a training run to finish
Some of these will be practical. Some will be philosophical. Most will be both. All of them come from someone who builds, trains, and ships — not from the sidelines.
To kick things off, I’m publishing two articles:
1. What If Open Source Worked Like Music Royalties? A whitepaper on the tragedy of the commons in open source software — and a micro-royalty model to fix it. Originally published on LinkedIn.
2. What’s the Difference Between a Weighted Synapse and a Weighted Parameter? On cognition, the path to AGI, and why intelligence has never had a cutoff line — not in evolution, not in infant development, and not in the systems we’re building now.
Subscribe if you want to think about these things. Push back if you disagree. That’s the point.
— Ylli