AI

2026

• Oct 20 – The Value of Process and Artefact
  One of the tensions at the heart of the current AI debate is one I’ve been interested in for a long time – the conflict between where we place value: in the artefact, or in the process that produced it.
• Sep 16 – AI is just a Text Processor
  We don't have artificial intelligence – we have text processors. Calling them that makes the whole discourse clearer, the doomerism more absurd, and the actual use cases more obvious.
• Aug 23 – AI and Value
  Watching AI devalue so much around us - we need to change the conversation. Less about how much more we can do, and more about how we can do better – it all depends on what we value.
• Aug 19 – My Writing Workflow
  Sharing how I am writing posts these days – being open about how I'm using AI to help edit and structure my words but not generate them.
• Aug 18 – AI as Translator
  AI as a translation layer unlocks access to things that were previously off-limits. Access isn't the same as mastery, but the empowerment that comes from going further than you could before is real and worth taking seriously.
• Aug 16 – Innovation without solving problems
  Is AI an attempt to take the Rot Economy to its illogical conclusion? Can you maximise profit without solving a problem and without a quality product or user experience?
• Aug 08 – The Answer Machine
  There has always been a very human drive to find the Answer Machine – a device that reduces the effort required to arrive at solutions to our many problems.
• May 14 – AI as UI
  While the generative components of AI capture the headlines, perhaps the chat interface is the more interesting.

2025

• Jun 18 – The Economic Realities of Attention
  What’s the value proposition of a bot filled timeline feeding you AI generated content?
• Feb 18 – AI Idealism
  What are the ideals of AI? What is the vision we are being asked to buy into?
• Jan 30 – Intellectual Outsourcing
  One of the things that I fear within the AI hype and the desire to inject it into all aspects of life is that it's a process of outsourcing.
• Jan 05 – AI says tomato but you mean potato
  AI has become a container word and something that we can no longer discuss until we start to unpack and define what exactly we're talking about.

2024

• Mar 02 – Understanding and Meaning
  Expanding on previous post a bit more to unpack what I think Understanding and Meaning have to do with our conversations around AI.
• Feb 25 – Intelligence requires understanding & meaning
  A second post venting some of my frustration with AI, the hype and the reality of it.
• Feb 22 – The Hype Machine is Breaking Us
  I haven’t been a participant in the discussion around AI. I’ve preferred to sit back and watch the commotion and spend time with my thoughts about what's been going on.