Category: AI 🤖
I’ve been experimenting with and using AI tools since 2020 – well before the release of even VQGAN. I have quite a few thoughts about AI, my experience of using it, and it’s interface since then.
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Prompted to Panic
All week I’ve been thinking to myself ‘I’m not going to write about Moltbook, I’m not going to write about Moltbook’. But I’ve found a work around! I’m going to…
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2025
Retrospectives for 2025 are still dropping in my RSS reader. Here’s mine: a macro-to-micro tour of the year, plus a few other things.
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Narrative Bubbles
Almost to the same extent that I find the current moment ‘thrilling’, I also find it extremely annoying. Mostly, I’m exhausted by ‘discourse.’
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A Tale of Two Little Guys: Sony AIBO + FURBY
What if a ‘little guy’ escapes the screen? In the late 90s, two did: Sony’s AIBO and the Furby.
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Cloudflare’s NET Dollar: AI Agents, Crypto Rails, and Web Payments
This isn’t the first time I’ve talked about AI agents, agents scurrying around paying for things with blockchains.
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After Reading The Draft
But after reading the draft I wrote about OpenAI being ALL IN on AGI, I realised I sound like a crazy person.
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NoAI LoFi | Weeknotes
YouTubers are performing as Lofi animations in real life, becoming the human equivalent of Netflix’s cosy fireplace video.
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4o-4 Not Found
The sudden removal of GPT-4o exposed how deeply people have made friends with AI. How should we design good goodbyes?
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Clippy: A Little History of Little Guys
The history of ‘Little Guys’ in AI UX. There are very few bits of software that have achieved such lasting cultural immortality as Clippy.
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Petz: A Little History of Little Guys
The history of ‘Little Guys’ in AI UX. Petz (1995), desktop buddies, and the design choices that shaped today’s agent interfaces.
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GPT Job Losses: Slowly, Then Suddenly | 2513
AI boosters on LinkedIn will have you belive AI will be taking everyone’s job tomorrow, but the anti-AI voices however still say never.
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Overdosed on AI Music | 2512
This week, I stood at the Slop Machine, experiencing not the future, but the extreme present. All day, every day, I’ve been listening to AI generated music.
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Eating From the Trough
For the next week, at least, I’ve decided to eat as much slop from the trough as possible. To find out what it’s like.
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AI UX: Pixel Agents, Talking Cars, and Moving Eyes
An exploration of AI companions, personified agents, and how virtual worlds and hardware interfaces are reshaping human-AI relationships.
