Approaching the Parhelion (opens in new tab)

A parhelion is created when light refracts through hexagonal ice crystals in the atmosphere, forming bright spots that appear on the horizon, connected by a faint halo. You don’t have to squint very hard to appreciate how relevant this is to our current AI moment, where we’re surrounded by token leaderboards, TikTok videos showing rapidly depleting API balances as a handful of brogrammers prompt the next B2B SaaS sensation into life, and an endless stream of OpenClaws spewing text onto LinkedIn.