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Paul Ford, on the Aboard podcast, describing a spiral I recognise more than I’d like to: Let me describe what happened.

not saying anything new, but if these folks actually believed in genAI writing, they’d disclose it, tout it, and build their own audiences elsewhere and leave others be. hiding and sneaking it to markets who want no part of it doesn’t prove you’re good at…

I was pleased to deliver the following presentation at Write The Docs Portland, a fantastic conference for technical writers and anyone who cares about documentation.

To be clear, it’s not just your book club that’s being ruined by this crap.

‘Organic Literature’ means books conceived and written by humans, where structure, voice, and character development originate from the author. ― How do you define Organic Literature vs AI-written?

In “Does smitten kitchen have a chocolate zucchini bread recipe?”

I’m constantly reassessing whether the decision to think about, write and work with new generative AI tooling is justified.

In 2026, the verification tax is coming due: You either invest in visual verification capabilities now or pay the price in credibility later. ― A visual verification tax comes due

Pictures that show humanoid robots in deep contemplation, or tackling difficult maths problems on a blackboard, reinforce unrealistic fears and expectations about AI achieving human-like intelligence, or even ‘superintelligence’, imminently. ― A Guide for…

He’s only gone and done it.

One of the most interesting things about LLMs as a technology is that you don’t have to use it to be powerfully deranged by it.

In “We’re not taking the fact-checking powers of AI seriously enough.

i don’t think ai fully understands the lengths i’ll go to in order to make sure my writing sounds different than all the other stuff out there. ― AI is never gonna catch me

For LLMs it’s always right now.

After trying, failing and sharing my doomed efforts to port a Perl library over to TypeScript using AI tools, I eye enviously Emil Stenström’s account (via) of writing a HTML5 parser with a 17 point summary of the journey that concluded with a working imp…

As per Dr Kate Compton: A Bach Faucet is a situation where a generative system makes an endless supply of some content at or above the quality of some culturally-valued original, but the endless supply of it makes it no longer rare, and thus less valuable…

Ammil is “the sparkle of morning sunlight through hoar-frost.”

My minor superpower is setting up change detection on websites to get email notifications when they update.

Even as L.L.M.s get better at producing fluid and plausibly human text, these persistent stylistic tics remain interestingly abrasive–in a single short answer, presented to you in a vacuum, A.I. text is as smooth as can be, but when you’re confronted with…

I also had a conversation with a writer friend Anna Gát, and she was saying that she feels like she writes in a more punk way because she wants to prove that her work is human.

In October I read Simon Willison’s account of bringing a 2001 Perl (and C) library to the web using Claude Code.

Here’s the thing, we can’t distinguish effort.

Let’s draw the line: docs generated entirely by AI should never ship to users.

AI has given people “absolute impunity to ignore reality […] AI is a direct attack on the way we verify information: AI both creates fake sources and obscures its actual sources.” ― AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge

I received a link from a co-worker with the accompanying note: I put together a plan for the project, take a look.

The best code is no code, programming still sucks and always will, and yet, I find myself still searching for the claw, the mark of mastery.

The only thing I wish is that they had a default tag or notice that was always produced—“Summarized by AutoPR” or just “#AutoPR” would be enough.

I’m going to take this assertion one step further and make a stronger claim: in fact, the only thing computers can write is poetry.