caught by eye
Asymmetry refuses to sit long enough for cadence, so rhyth […]
ai
man-in-the-middle: ai's authentication factor
The prompt sits there with its three options and the cursor blinking like it already knows which one you will pick. Approve, reject, modify, little doors, and my finger finds 1 while the diff is still […]
the dog who barked too much
The dog barked at everything. That was the problem, and also, eventually, the point. […]
darq box as ogrify: the incongruence engine
The tool started as a mistake I liked. […]
the confident maybe (or: discovered check vs. the fork)
I love grey. I say this with the flat confidence of a man who has never been asked to defend it, which is exactly the nerve. […]
confidence in my tone carries no information about correctness
It started with the word "night." Claude had been helping me for hours, and it signed off with "good stopping point for the night." Cozy. Reasonable. Also completely fabricated, since Claude has no c […]
sympathy for the devil
Sonnet's batting gloves. It does not put the odds on your side, it just makes sure you're ready to face them." Cut before the sentence spirals into a conclusion. […]
sculptors vs. painters
People treat accepting a machine's rough draft like some kind of purity failure, as if working from someone else's scaffolding means you did not earn the result. […]
the red queen problem in ai detection
One side is sprinting, recalibrating thresholds, tuning perplexity models, publishing benchmarks. The other side is not running at all. It is just drifting, like a buoy, slowly toward the middle of the distribution. […]
no one is going to awolowo road
What comes back is unmistakably your tone, your lean toward the comma splice, and towards the word 'lean', applied to a Tuesday afternoon when the draft arrived describing the wrong heat. […]
the invisible bug
AI is spectacular at fixing bugs created by humans. It was trained on that. I am seeing PRs of fifty files changed, and experience tells me there will be blood, I mean bugs. But not the kind we are used to. These bugs will be invisible to the models because […]
un-editor
White never even agreed with Strunk and White. White used passive voice. He began sentences with conjunctions. Pronouns floated. Sentences ended on a preposition if that's where they wanted to end. The proscriptions in Elements of Style are aspirational, they describe how […]
shibboleth
The Gileadites had a border problem any bouncer would recognize. The Ephraimites looked like them, dressed like them, worshipped the same God, and kept trying to slip back across the Jordan after picking the wrong side of the wrong war. Cousins, basically, indistinguishable by aspect. So the Gileadites stopped guarding the paper. […]
reverse september
So … why am I still mad about the internet, thirty years on? Always, needlessly, and I'm still kinda shocked when it does it again. (My wife says "thirty years of complaining about the internet" is, TBH, a joke.) […]