Critique

16 posts filed under Critique.

2026

Sep 17 – Technology is a Tool and a Weapon
Every technology sits on a continuum between tool and weapon, and the "it's just a tool" argument almost always comes from someone who benefits from ignoring that.
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 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 10 – Why the Canvas hack was innevitable
While the news focuses on the hack, I wish we'd talk about the decision-making that made this thing an inevitability.

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?
Feb 11 – Catching Up with Critique
Highlighting some excellent conversations and critiques that are floating out there on the #SmallWeb
Jan 31 – The Luddite & the Mechanic
Looking at tech criticism and critique through the lens of the Luddite and the Mechanic.
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.

Nov 25 – A big fish in a small bowl looking out
Weaving some thoughts on what's happening at work and on the socials and reflecting on what I should be doing. Staying in the fishbowl, or jumping into the ocean.
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.