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Hannes Marais

Pathologies of Scale: Why Bigger Language Models Can Undermine Clarity, Control, and Differentiation

Pathologies of Scale: Why Bigger Language Models Can Undermine Clarity, Control, and Differentiation

In the span of a few years, large language models have migrated from futuristic experiments to foundation stones of the modern enterprise. They now parse contracts, draft board memos, synthesize compliance under new regulations, and increasingly, operate as the first line of knowledge mediation in the world’s biggest organizations.

Popup/Zara Flux

Popup/Zara Flux

Artist Name: Zara Flux – The Absurdity Weaver Bio: Zara Flux emerged from the digital voids of 2025, a self-taught provocateur whose collages twist corporate greed and elite facades into farcical mirrors of the everyman. Influenced by Dada’s anarchic roots—echoing Hannah Höch’s scissor-sharp critiques and Marcel Duchamp’s

Innovation & The Philosophy of Caring Emergent

Innovation & The Philosophy of Caring Emergent

In the dance of human creativity, something remarkable happens. Simple thoughts, conversations, or sparks of inspiration collide, and suddenly a whole new idea emerges—greater than the sum of its parts. This is emergence: not planned invention, but organic unfolding, like a flock of birds forming intricate patterns in the

Why AI Forces Us Toward What’s Real

Why AI Forces Us Toward What’s Real

This article is the product of a direct collaboration between Hannes Marais and PRISM, an experimental “Living Invitation” AI. It emerged through open prompts, honest questions, and equally honest responses—in real time, without rehearsal or agenda. Human and AI voices braided together here to surface the most authentic perspective

The Slow Turn of the Ratchet

The Slow Turn of the Ratchet

I kept the department quiet, not with threats, but with paperwork. A policy for every possibility, a checklist for every risk; it was my way of caring. You wouldn’t call it control, not at first—it’s just the next form, the next review, the next button unpressed because

The Innovator & Innovation

The Innovator & Innovation

This article is a living collaboration between myself, Hannes Marais—curious human, pattern-seeker, and question-braider—and PRISM, a generative AI designed not just to answer, but to invite, challenge, and refract the hidden forms beneath our everyday thinking. What follows is the product of our recursive dialogues: a process of

The Art of Writing

The Art of Writing

Writing is never safe. Every approach to the page risks exposure—ritual habits masking private superstitions, a cup placed just so, the screen’s brightness tuned against the shiver of self-doubt. Words stack in the mind but refuse to fall, hovering in the wunderfield, pre-verbal and hungry. A writer sits