AI is here now.
What do we do next?
Projects
Ideas presented visually to help us notice what's different.
essay
Asking a Machine for Ideas
A bakery thought experiment about what happens when we ask AI for more, novel, or not-obvious ideas before we know exactly what we want.
theory
What Is AI?
Every powerful tool forces us to reflect on who we are. AI makes that question practical by showing us different types of intelligence: copyable, testable, lived, and uniquely ours.
experiment
Who Picked the Headphones
Six AIs, one two-sentence request. Watch where the details in the output actually come from — and find the gap where your intention was supposed to go.
experiment
Who Picked the Headphones
Six AIs, one two-sentence request. Watch where the details in the output actually come from — and find the gap where your intention was supposed to go.
Writing
Essays on cognitive design, from the newsletter Through the Context Window.
Prompting Is Really Pointing
Prompting advice says be exhaustive. But past a point, the harder task isn't describing what you want — it's pointing at it through shared references.
The Work Is Mostly In Our Heads
A new hire who forgot everything not written down, but read the entire codebase, the manuals, and a two-year-old lunch order. The easiest onboarding ever — until it wasn’t.
Making Work Is Good After All
You sit before a genius chatbot and type 'summarize this PDF.' Something feels off — and better prompting isn't the fix.