No text in any of my blog posts or essays is AI-generated, with the following exception: I generally run posts through Claude Code with the prompt, "make sure this writing follows the Chicago Manual of Style." I review all suggested changes…
I am, much to my chagrin, on Twitter. I first joined Twitter in 2011. I deleted my account in 2020 and started posting again in about May of this year, to "develop my writing career." I tend to have what may be anachronistic attitudes towar…
I quit my job in January, and have been on a professional sabbatical since then. I have spent the past six weeks in New York, a city I lived in for two years two years ago. New York has always been, to me, a city of fantasy. When I was unha…
There is a scourge of AI-designed signs taking over America, especially small businesses and organizations. I will not mince words: these signs are disgusting. They are maybe the most aesthetically ugly and repulsive things I have ever seen…
Jul 09 2026 I have criticized annoying design practices resulting from vibe coding websites. I want to highlight one: fade-in animated text on scroll, highlight, or page load, especially for what should be undecorated paragraphs of text. Th…
The Amazing Digital Circus is a YouTube animated series that started in late 2023. Its visual style of the show is that of something for five-year-olds, but the target demographic is probably something like thirteen to twenty-one. It is sta…
I started a professional sabbatical in January. For the first few months, I continued to write code, but starting in March, I've almost completely stopped. The distance from actively building software has reinforced my sense that a lot of s…
Ryan Peterman is a YouTube interviewer who speaks with senior employees at big tech companies. On the one hand, it is incredible how accessible high-income professionals at highly competitive organizations are, and how open they are willing…
If you don't regularly take public transit, you may not have the daily experience of bounded slices of time where you have nothing to do but sit and briefly wait. If you do, you'll notice that most people are looking at their phones. When o…
I started a professional sabbatical in January. For the month of March, I wrote basically full-time. This is possibly the first time in my life that I have spent so much time doing so much writing, and it's been one of the more enjoyable ex…
I have experimented enough with AI coding agents that I have come to pick up on their design style, and I've been noticing it on the internet more and more. Some of its stylistic choices I can articulate: too much animation, pointless eleme…
Much has been said about audio, video and text "slop": low-quality, AI-generated content that has proliferated on the internet since the release of publicly-accessible AI models. Garbage content has always existed online, but the novelty of…