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Nice To See You | Weeknotes #423
I went to a friend’s birthday at the weekend and had a lot of conversations with people I haven’t seen since my early 20s.
Broken Cable, Broken Flow
I have had a really unproductive week, thanks to a technical disaster entirely of my own making.
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?
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.
Virtual Friends, Real Feelings
One of the things I’ve been doing recently when reading about any new company that’s making AI products is to mentally sort them into one of three categories: Tools, Assistants, Companions.
Slowly Starting To Happen
Being frank: I just don’t care what ‘everyone else’ is doing, thinking, saying, or making. I only care about what my peers are doing.
Feeling In My Bones
Not sure how things will be different, or how often i’m going to post, just that I’ll be posting more.
Terminal Access
From this week I’m adding a new section to my weeknotes. I want to highlight work friends who’ve posted to the web outside of social media
Brainworms | 2222
‘Someone has brainworms’, is a recognition that an individual is behaving in a way not congruent with dominant cultural logics.
Birthday! 33
Terra0’s Flowertokens trial went live. Really proud of all the work that team have done, its been a pleasure so far this year.
The Dithering
So today we found out ABBA are back together. This is awful news.
Permanently Moved – Episode 1
Warren Ellis posted The Short Things over on Morning.Computer. I thought about it over breakfast and decided “challenge excepted”.
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