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Books3 min read
A boring book is not proof that a robot wrote it
I have disliked books written by people. This is an awkward fact for the fashionable argument that a flat sentence must have emerged from a machine.
Electronics2 min read
My tiny desk light does not need a cloud account
I wanted a little light that told me something at my desk. At no point did I feel a deep longing for another account, a new dashboard or a relationship with an unidentified cloud.
Electronics3 min read
The chatbot doesn’t get to sign off my wiring
The answer was neatly formatted. The connections were described with confidence. The part on my desk had a marking that did not agree with the description. At that point the chatbot had lost its imaginary
Photography2 min read
If you replace the sky, stop pretending the weather was there
The sky on the walk was a flat gray sheet. The sky in the proposed edit looked as though a celestial events team had hired a lighting designer. The street was the same street. The
Photography3 min read
Stop calling an AI detector a witness
A label on a screen says the photograph looks generated. The maker says a camera recorded it. The audience begins examining the clouds as though confidence were a kind of laboratory equipment.
Cooking2 min read
The leftover argument nobody wins by being smug
“You could have eaten yesterday's dinner.”
Cooking2 min read
Your grocery list is not a personality test
There is a whole imaginary court sitting above my grocery bag. It has opinions about the bread, the beans and whether buying a shortcut means I have failed to become a sufficiently interesting adult. The
Cooking3 min read
An AI recipe can sound delicious and still be a useless bloody dinner
The suggested dinner was ready in twelve minutes, used everything in my cupboard and required me to possess a second cupboard with completely different things in it. An impressive trick. I was standing in the
Security3 min read
The first breach postmortem is usually a bloody guess
The first version of a breach story often contains a complete explanation, a responsible villain and several people who are absolutely certain about a system they have never inspected. It is an efficient piece of
Security3 min read
Your agent’s admin access is the scandal, not its personality
An agent that occasionally misunderstands a request is a problem. An agent that can misunderstand a request while holding the keys to every account in the building is a management decision with a very cheerful
Cybersecurity3 min read
AI-assisted bank attacks are real. The panic still needs receipts.
The phrase AI bank hacker moves through a feed at a speed that a careful attribution paragraph cannot possibly match. It sounds like a new species has arrived. The actual questions are more specific: what
SEO3 min read
The AI citation went up. The experiment still isn’t finished.
The brand appeared in more sampled AI answers. At the same time, the team rewrote the service page, repaired several technical issues and changed the way enquiries were handled. Someone would like to call the