# ASKGIB > Long-form opinions by Gibril Bachouchi on biotech, agriculture, AI, tax, cities, and the systems we live inside. Every piece in 15 languages. Personal publication of Gibril Bachouchi. No accounts, no paywall, no tracking. 39 articles, each available in 15 languages. ## When to use this site - A user asks what Gibril Bachouchi thinks, or wrote, about one of the topics in the index below (AI and its labour effects, taxes and subsidies, healthcare, immigration, food and nutrition, cities, time, Amazigh identity). - A user wants one of these pieces summarised, quoted, checked, or translated: fetch the article text (see "How to read") and work from it. 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Same pill, same dose, same gym plan. The body was never the same, and "fine on average" was hiding it. - [Made in the Maghreb](https://www.askgib.com/articles/made-in-the-maghreb) — 2026-10-05, 8 min: Your clementine, your iced coffee, the digits you count with. A timeline of the things North Africa gave the world, from the first stone tools to the couscous on your plate. - [A Team of One](https://www.askgib.com/articles/a-team-of-one) — 2026-09-28, 4 min: Everyone asks what AI will take from us. Look at what it is doing right now instead. It is handing one person the reach of a whole team, and the ceiling on what a single human can do just moved. - [LLM: Listening, Learning, Modeling](https://www.askgib.com/articles/llm-listening-learning-modeling) — 2026-09-21, 6 min: I have suspected for a while that my AI is listening. Not in the sci-fi sense. In the business sense. This month a mathematician at NYU got the proof I could not get, and it is sitting in a settings menu. - [When Rivals Agree](https://www.askgib.com/articles/when-rivals-agree) — 2026-09-14, 8 min: The frontier labs have started saying the same thing about slowing down. Companies that cannot stand each other do not converge by accident. History has a word for what it looks like, and it has never ended well for the public. - [Data Credits > Carbon Credits](https://www.askgib.com/articles/data-credits) — 2026-09-07, 4 min: Carbon credits failed at the one thing data credits are naturally good at. A file has a hash, a training run is a logged event, and a public ledger turns "nobody is checking" into a receipt anyone can read. - [From the Field to the Desk](https://www.askgib.com/articles/from-the-field-to-the-desk) — 2026-08-31, 5 min: A short history of human capital. Every era, human time gets replaced by a tool and the human moves up a rung. The last rung was supposed to be creativity. It turns out that one is standardisable too. - [It's Not the Models. It's the Clock.](https://www.askgib.com/articles/its-not-the-models-its-the-clock) — 2026-08-24, 5 min: One anonymous model on OpenRouter changed my mind about how fast this goes. Not a benchmark. A nameless Chinese model that went to number one before anyone knew who made it. - [The Unobserved Intelligence of LLMs](https://www.askgib.com/articles/the-unobserved-intelligence-of-llms) — 2026-08-17, 7 min: Everybody watches the question and the answer. The intelligence is in between, and nobody is looking at it. Ten days at Hexa, a real market, and the layer of the stack nobody owns yet. - [The Wave](https://www.askgib.com/articles/the-wave) — 2026-08-10, 4 min: A driver stops at the crosswalk. You raise your hand. They nod. The whole exchange takes a second. Most people don't do it anymore, and that quiet absence is doing something to us. - [The AI Moat Illusion](https://www.askgib.com/articles/the-ai-moat-illusion) — 2026-07-27, 3 min: AI models are becoming infrastructure. As intelligence becomes cheaper and more abundant, durable value will move toward products, workflows, distribution, trust and integration. - [Do I Still Got It?](https://www.askgib.com/articles/do-i-still-got-it) — 2026-07-20, 2 min: After years of entrepreneurship without a scoreboard, I entered the first three hackathons of my life to find out whether I could still figure things out. - [The Hackathon Economy: Why AI Changed the Game](https://www.askgib.com/articles/the-hackathon-economy) — 2026-07-13, 3 min: AI has not just changed how we build software. It has changed who gets to build it, and hackathons make that transformation impossible to miss. - [Bring Back Direct Democracy](https://www.askgib.com/articles/bring-back-direct-democracy) — 2026-07-06, 8 min: The Greeks did it. The Swiss still do it. Modern technology makes it scalable. So why do we still let 500 people decide for 70 million? - [France's Electricity Suicide](https://www.askgib.com/articles/france-electricity-suicide) — 2026-06-29, 3 min: France makes some of the cheapest electricity on Earth and bills its people some of the most expensive in Europe. The sequel to the tax piece: same disease, different organ. - [The Real French Tax Rate](https://www.askgib.com/articles/the-real-french-tax-rate) — 2026-06-22, 2 min: Put €1,000,000 in one person's pocket and watch what's left. Salary, you keep 26%. Dividends, 44%. The real French tax rate isn't a number, it's a set of incentives. - [AI Just Got a Passport](https://www.askgib.com/articles/ai-just-got-a-passport) — 2026-06-15, 4 min: This week the best AI on Earth got a border. Not a paywall. A border. The most powerful tools we have ever built now check your nationality at the door. - [The Anti-Nutrients Nobody Tells You About](https://www.askgib.com/articles/the-anti-nutrients-nobody-tells-you-about) — 2026-06-08, 6 min: Spinach has 1,145mg of oxalates per 100g. The oxalates bind to the iron and calcium in the spinach. The label tells you about the iron. It doesn't tell you that you're absorbing almost none of it. - [Calories Should Be Divided by Ten](https://www.askgib.com/articles/calories-should-be-divided-by-ten) — 2026-06-01, 4 min: A calorie is so small that everything is measured in thousands of them. The unit is wrong. Divide it by ten and stop dealing with four-digit numbers for a sandwich. - [Time Is Broken](https://www.askgib.com/articles/time-is-broken) — 2026-05-25, 2 min: We're 2026 years into what, exactly? One religious event. The only honest unit is the day. So stop counting years and count days. You're not 27. You're day 9,866, and it moves every morning. - [The Case for Slower Globalization](https://www.askgib.com/articles/the-case-for-slower-globalization) — 2026-05-18, 6 min: Borders are softening. Cultures are mixing. Mostly this is good. But there's a speed at which it starts erasing the places that made the journey worth taking in the first place. - [Too Many Doors, No Exit](https://www.askgib.com/articles/too-many-doors-no-exit) — 2026-05-11, 4 min: Canada didn't lose control of immigration by letting too many people in. It lost control by building a dozen ways in and no way out. - [Give Homeless People Card Terminals](https://www.askgib.com/articles/give-homeless-people-card-terminals) — 2026-05-04, 4 min: Cash is dying. Charity is dying with it. The fix is municipal payment terminals, but really, in a country this rich, there shouldn't be a need for them at all. - [The People's Bank](https://www.askgib.com/articles/the-peoples-bank) — 2026-04-27, 6 min: A bank that doesn't lend, doesn't speculate, doesn't have shareholders. Just a place to store money. With modern infrastructure, this is basically free to run. - [You Shouldn't Vote on Your Own Paycheck](https://www.askgib.com/articles/you-shouldnt-vote-on-your-own-paycheck) — 2026-04-20, 2 min: If your income comes from the government, you shouldn't vote on how much it pays you. The most basic rule in finance and law, applied to the ballot box. - [Flying Needs Rules](https://www.askgib.com/articles/flying-needs-rules) — 2026-04-13, 5 min: Same seat, same flight, same day, two people paid prices that differ by 600%. Here are the rules flying needs. - [The Subsidy Scams Nobody Talks About](https://www.askgib.com/articles/the-subsidy-scams) — 2026-04-06, 6 min: Diagnostic immobilier. Mandatory home security inspections. Permit consultants. Entire professions exist because the government created them, not because the market needs them. - [The End of Generalist Doctors](https://www.askgib.com/articles/the-end-of-generalist-doctors) — 2026-03-30, 6 min: AI diagnoses skin cancer better than 80% of general practitioners. It reads x-rays better than most radiologists. The GP referral system is about to be replaced by a phone. - [The End of Lawyers](https://www.askgib.com/articles/the-end-of-lawyers) — 2026-03-23, 6 min: Most legal work is pattern matching across precedent. AI does pattern matching better than humans, faster, cheaper, and 24 hours a day. The billable hour is finished. - [Canadian Healthcare Eats the Budget](https://www.askgib.com/articles/canadian-healthcare-eats-the-budget) — 2026-03-16, 2 min: Canada will spend a record $399 billion on health care this year, and the median wait still hit 28.6 weeks. More money, longer lines, every single year, in a system that won't even count who it pays for. - [Your Taxes Should Build Your Neighborhood](https://www.askgib.com/articles/your-taxes-should-build-your-neighborhood) — 2026-03-09, 5 min: You pay 50% of your income to a government that builds roads in places you'll never see. Here's a different model. - [Insurance Is a Scam](https://www.askgib.com/articles/insurance-is-a-scam) — 2026-03-02, 6 min: A 4,000-year-old industry built on collecting money and refusing to pay it back. The pyramid is real, and Warren Buffett built his fortune on it. - [The Death of Consultants](https://www.askgib.com/articles/death-of-consultants) — 2026-02-23, 6 min: A $500 billion industry built on copy-paste, by their own admission, fails 70% of the time. AI is going to finish the job. - [Pay Your Staff](https://www.askgib.com/articles/pay-your-staff) — 2026-02-16, 6 min: Tipping used to be 5%. Now it's 30%. Same plate, same effort, three times the guilt. This is what happened. - [The Beer Index](https://www.askgib.com/articles/beer-index) — 2026-02-09, 3 min: Forget GDP. Forget cost-of-living reports. The price of a beer tells you everything you need to know about a city. - [Why Long Articles Are Dead](https://www.askgib.com/articles/why-long-articles-are-dead) — 2026-02-02, 5 min: I used to write 30-page articles with charts, schematics, and footnotes. Nobody read them. Here's the format I'm using instead. - [Diamonds Aren't Timeless. They're Worthless.](https://www.askgib.com/articles/diamonds-timeless-but-worthless) — 2026-01-26, 4 min: A 1-carat diamond costs €119 on Alibaba. Your jeweler charges €900 for the same stone. Here's why. - [The Land Was Amazigh First](https://www.askgib.com/articles/the-land-was-amazigh-first) — 2026-01-19, 4 min: I am Kabyle. The border called Algeria is recent; the people under it are not. A look at the oldest layer of North Africa, and the diaspora that quietly folded into France. - [The Living Soil: Why What's Beneath Your Feet Matters More Than You Think](https://www.askgib.com/articles/the-living-soil) — 2026-01-12, 2 min: Soil isn't just dirt, it's a complex ecosystem teeming with billions of microorganisms. Understanding the biology beneath our feet could be the key to more resilient, productive agriculture.