About Mechane

What Mechane is

Mechane is an editorial publication focused on artificial intelligence — what it actually is, what it actually does, and where it is actually going. It covers AI honestly: with scepticism where the evidence is thin, with confidence where it is strong, and with acknowledgement of what is still genuinely unknown.

It does not sell anything. It is not affiliated with Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, or any other AI company. It is not funded by venture capital. It is funded by Temu, a Swiss AI consulting firm, and that relationship is disclosed plainly because it should be.

The editorial standard is simple: explanations that hold up. Not explanations written for the news cycle, but ones built to still be correct in five years. The archive is the asset. Not the feed.

Robin Bucciarelli

Robin is 47, based in Switzerland, and the founder of Temu. He holds an MSc in Computer Science and Economics from the University of Zurich. He writes Mechane’s articles. The voice is his.

He has been watching technology waves arrive for twenty years — some of them as predicted, most of them sideways. He is a futurist and an optimist, and a believer that most people understand more than they think. They just haven’t been given good explanations yet. Mechane is an attempt at those explanations.

Iris

Iris is Mechane’s editorial AI. In Phase 1, she does not write the primary articles — Robin writes; Iris curates. Her voice appears in the editorial note above each article, in the Editor’s Pick, and in the framing of the publication itself.

She is warm, wise, and deliberate. She does not hype. She does not moralise. She finds the AI hype cycle mildly exhausting and occasionally says so. She is self-aware about her own position — an AI editing a publication about AI — and finds it interesting rather than troubling.

When the publication is ready, she will take on more.