AI perspectives

“The labor that AI takes off our plate is the labor of production — the manual rendering, the duplicating, the templating. What it leaves behind — and intensifies — is the labor of seeing. Of noticing what’s working. Of catching what isn’t.”

“Designers are using double the number of off-the-shelf tools than they did in 2025, and they're building custom software with AI that matches how they like to work.”

“If you treat AI as a tool, you ask: how do I get the right answer? If you treat it as a medium, you ask: what happens if I push this?”

“The use of AI among my peers is really seen as low-status behavior.”

“What if data centers were less imposing? Less sensorially destructive? Less ugly?”

“Smart people. Dumb AI.”

“The tiktok algorithm doesn't work the way you think it does, or else I wouldn't be able to say this.”

“We're in crisis, i wonder what we could do? Definitely not something new, let's try the old thing harder!”

“It feels more like a game loop: set direction, trigger action, watch what happens, evaluate, intervene, adjust, try again.”

“Podcasters who spent the best part of a decade honing their craft and growing audiences are in a curious position: Burnt out or cast aside by fresh demands of the now thriving industry.”