Thoughts
Essays, reflections after reading, citations worth keeping, notes I don't want to lose, and subjects I'm still thinking through. Some pieces are finished. Some are deliberately unfinished.
AI Made Me Dumb. So I Stopped Using AI… the Wrong Way.
What happens when AI stops being a tool for thinking and starts replacing thinking?
How to Create Outstanding Work in the Age of Average Content
When production becomes cheap, speed is no longer enough. Judgment, depth and originality become more valuable.
Can We Rely on Unpredictable Systems to Build Predictable Ones?
A reflection on what changes when probabilistic AI systems become part of software systems we expect to behave reliably.
System 1 wants the answer now
Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman
Kahneman’s distinction between fast intuition and slow reasoning keeps showing up in how I build and how I use AI.
Speed should not replace thinking
A reminder I keep coming back to when the workflow gets fast and the output gets easy.
What does ownership mean in the age of AI-assisted coding?
A subject I want to spend more time with: where responsibility sits when much of the syntax is generated for you.
What are we busy about?
Walden, Henry David Thoreau
A line I return to when speed starts to feel like the whole point.