
AI Is Great — Like a Swiss‑Army Brain
Small, practical wins that suddenly make work feel possible.
Where AI Fails Right Now A quick tour through the gaps, the hallucinations, and the hard engineering left to do I like to think of AI as a very enthusiastic intern. It reads everything fast, speaks confidently, and can do tedious drafting at scale. I...
AI Is Great Short story: why I stopped fearing the robot and started using it as a creative sidekick I used to imagine AI as a distant, complicated thing. Cold algorithms running somewhere else. Hard to reach. Hard to trust. Then I started using it l...

Small model stumbles, big user sighs — and what to do about them

A small, skeptical tour of what ‘smart’ homes actually change — and what they don’t I used to think a smart home was a fancy thermostat and a voice saying, "Sorry, I didn't catch that." Now I notice AI changing the house in quieter, stranger ways. No...
I keep thinking about two tools. One is a Swiss Army knife. It’s useful. It solves problems. You keep it in your pocket. You reach for it when you need to open a box, tighten a screw, or peel an apple. The other is a skateboard. It’s less about utili...
I used to think image-generating AI was magic. Then I read about how it’s actually a clumsy, enthusiastic intern that learned by looking at everything. Here’s the gentle version of the story — no math, just metaphors. First: the feast. These models t...