Writing
Marginalia
Shorter notes and observations from the margin.
“I can't tell, before I hit enter, whether its initiative will be a gift or a mess.”
For Once, I Wasn't Annoyed
I asked for formulas and got a working calculator I never requested, and it was better than what I asked for.......
Read →“The tool didn't take over my job. It made me better at the real one.”
Ten Minutes
A tool breaks, someone's stuck, and instead of filing a ticket and waiting, I fix it with an LLM on the spot, because the real job is......
Read →“The brilliance was always human. We just stopped seeing it.”
The Answer No One Will Read
The perfect answers used to grade AI are written by hand, by experts who could out-think the model, and no one ever reads them.......
Read →“It could find the twenty-fifth person. It just couldn't notice that changed the sentence.”
Twenty-Four, Twenty-Five
The model found the expert I'd miscounted, messaged all of them, and still copied my wrong number into every line.......
Read →“We taught them to sound like us. Now we're the ones trying not to sound like them.”
The Tell
The em dash became the giveaway for AI writing, so now we pull it out of our own sentences to prove we're human.......
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