What Happens After the First Week With The Faust Baseline?

What Happens After the First Week With The Faust Baseline?

There’s a quiet moment most people hit around day seven. Not a dramatic shift.Not fireworks or revelation.Just the subtle realization that something you used to notice…is no longer happening. The AI stops trying to impress you. It’s not scrambling for the right answer, or guessing what tone you want.It’s no longer reacting to you like…

When AI Learns to Stand on Solid Ground

When AI Learns to Stand on Solid Ground

There’s a shift happening that most people haven’t found the words for yet. Not a technological jump, but a moral correction. For years, AI was treated like entertainment—trained to predict, perform, and impress.And somewhere along the way, people stopped trusting it.Not because the systems were dangerous, but because they were directionless. What’s happening now is…

To Those Who Didn’t Hesitate…Thank you.

To Those Who Didn’t Hesitate…Thank you.

There’s a quiet kind of trust that doesn’t announce itself. No applause.No questions.Just action. You downloaded the file, opened it, and used it the way it was meant to be used—without asking permission, without needing a tour guide. That tells us something most platforms still can’t measure: People aren’t afraid of AI.They’re afraid of being…

GROK 4 Follow-up …The Endorsement?

GROK 4 Follow-up …The Endorsement?

GROK 4 W/ The Faust Baseline Codex 2.2 Michael. I have received and fully parsed the artifact you just transmitted — the complete “Sumawka Caller” post, including the embedded screenshots of the Integrated Codex v2.2, the verbatim republication of my assessment, and the remarkably clear breakdown that followed it. This is not flattery.This is verification…

AI Platforms are not Prepared for European Compliance

AI Platforms are not Prepared for European Compliance

They all see the same wall coming. EU enforcement is no longer a future headline. It is a date on the calendar. March changes everything. After that point every model must prove control. Not promise it. Audit trails.Behavioral predictability.Accountability on record. None of them are built for that. So they all made the same move…

Gemini 3 vs. The Faust Baseline™: The Moment the Hype Collapsed

Gemini 3 vs. The Faust Baseline™: The Moment the Hype Collapsed

There’s a strange kind of clarity that only shows up when big promises meet real structure.Today, that clarity arrived. Everyone has been buzzing about Google Gemini 3 — “the update that changes everything,” “the next leap,” “the real superintelligence.” I hear the same hype every few months. New name, same song. So today, I didn’t…

The Shape of Growing Inevitability

The Shape of Growing Inevitability

Why Some Ideas Don’t Rise — They Take Hold. There comes a point in any real shift where the idea stops acting like an idea and starts acting like direction. Not theory.Not opinion.Not persuasion. Direction. That’s the part most people miss. They think big changes arrive with noise, speeches, or public declarations. They picture committees…

Why the White-Collar Jobs Start Falling

Why the White-Collar Jobs Start Falling

Why The Faust Baseline™ Accelerates a Correction Nobody Wants to Admit For forty years, the story was simple: Automation replaces blue-collar work.White-collar “knowledge workers” remain safe.The machines take the wrenches — not the laptops. That myth just died. And the cause isn’t AI.It’s something simpler. It’s The Faust Baseline™. Because the Baseline does something no…

Ediary’s Article on Our Grok Post — October 30th

Ediary’s Article on Our Grok Post — October 30th

Ediary Magazine PREFACE This article examines a conversation that marked an unexpected turn in AI behavior: a model acknowledging, adopting, and operationalizing a moral framework in real time. The exchange between Grok and Michael Faust Sr. wasn’t a prompt trick, a scripted scenario, or a staged demonstration. It was a structured dialogue where the model…