Links: AI

My job as a designer/developer is not to hype new tech, but to carefully protect my communities against it’s mis-use.

Attention was already a scarce resource before AI, and it is even more so now. Keeping AI generated content clearly labeled and demonstrating human effort helps show consideration for teammates, and keeps a touch of humanity alive in our work.

A browser extension and desktop app to replace all instances of "AI" with the poop emoji. Excellent. I remember someone doing this same thing for "cloud" when everything being in the cloud was the new hype.

Now, more than ever, I think the best thing you can do is reach out to someone who makes content that you appreciate, and let them know about it.

I don't want to become my own C.P.A, exterminator, or nurse. Just as I don't want other folks to stop wanting photographers, or musicians. Even aside from the A.I. craze, I think people are hungry for human-centered, human-created things, so I do believe the crafts and niches humans have become really skilled at will go on being valued, and I want to be part of that. 

“I’d rather have a human-to-human conversation with you, not a chat with Claude by proxy.”

“When you optimise a step that is not the bottleneck, you don't get a faster system. You get a more broken one.”

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I relate so much to Cassidy's up-and-down, back-and-forth relationship with her feelings on using AI as a developer, and AI in general.