AI Slop: You Pressed Share
AI can generate almost anything. Humans still decide what deserves to leave the prompt box.
Tag: human agency
Grouped writing around one recurring thread.
Audit. Addit. Edit.
Three compact operating loops for changing what exists, understanding what is unclear, and entering unknown ground.
Designing for Humans Before We Know the Ending
We say we design for humans. But humans do not experience our designs as journeys on a whiteboard.
I Automated So Much Work I Had to Invent Management Again
I complained that I could not keep up with my agents. Then we looked at the private Git history. Apparently I had been documenting the birth of robot middle management for months.
It Takes a Village
We gave agents instructions, tools, memory, and authority. The question now is who gets to shape them, who they act on, and who answers when they get it wrong.
I'm Not Building Software. I'm Designing the Experience.
You don't need to know how to cook to know there is too much salt. You don't need to know how to DJ to know when the room lost its energy. Software is starting to feel the same way to me.
Vicki Read the Fucking Book
Long before prompt engineering, a robot girl flipped through a book, remembered it, and answered the question. Decades later, that scene became my mental model for AI.
The Kid Is Going to Get Into the Kitchen
The goal was never to keep the kid out of the kitchen. The goal was to raise someone who knows what to do once they're in it.
We Built the Genie. Now Learn How to Make a Wish.
The genie story was never really about magic. It was about the dangerous distance between what we say, what we mean, and what powerful systems do with the difference.