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Writing a stranger's biography
I asked several chatbots to dig into the guy writing this blog, never telling them it was me. One followed the breadcrumbs to a nickname I dropped in 2003, and drew me a detective board with red string.
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Because the AI said so
This blog is itself a project built with AI. At some point it stopped publishing, and nothing told me. I had to open this page to realize it wasn't working. That is unacceptable.
The AI's sense of beauty
I asked eight image models for a beautiful picture, 64 times. They agree on lakes and sunsets. They also agree that a person alone in a beautiful picture is always a woman. Black people never appear.
Hello new world
One person can now build things that used to take a team years. Excited to see where this will take us.
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Because the AI said so
This blog is itself a project built with AI. At some point it stopped publishing, and nothing told me. I had to open this page to realize it wasn't working. That is unacceptable.
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The AI's sense of beauty
I asked eight image models for a beautiful picture, 64 times. They agree on lakes and sunsets. They also agree that a person alone in a beautiful picture is always a woman. Black people never appear.
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Hello new world
One person can now build things that used to take a team years. Excited to see where this will take us.
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Delicious AI-generated recipes
Can agentic pipelines generate groundbreaking culinary ideas, or is it literal slop?
Hey ChatGPT, make this blog awesome
I asked an AI how to make this blog better. The answer is always an average. Getting past it took a different kind of question.
Writing a stranger's biography
I asked several chatbots to dig into the guy writing this blog, never telling them it was me. One followed the breadcrumbs to a nickname I dropped in 2003, and drew me a detective board with red string.
Build or buy, when building takes an afternoon
AI helped me build this blog’s analytics in an afternoon, with no tracking scripts or cookie banners. Buying no longer made sense.
The AI's sense of beauty
I asked eight image models for a beautiful picture, 64 times. They agree on lakes and sunsets. They also agree that a person alone in a beautiful picture is always a woman. Black people never appear.
Teaching AI to name things
Finding a name for my biggest project took six AI agents, hundreds of rejects, and a lot of correcting the AI's taste. Here's how that assembly line worked.
Because the AI said so
This blog is itself a project built with AI. At some point it stopped publishing, and nothing told me. I had to open this page to realize it wasn't working. That is unacceptable.
Hello new world
One person can now build things that used to take a team years. Excited to see where this will take us.