2026-01-07 01:25:34
I mentioned this on our bonus episode of Core Intuition last month, but I don’t think I’ve blogged about it… Sometimes AI will come up with something and I’ll think, “Damn, that is better than what I would have written myself.” Annoying! My only fix is to edit nearly everything to make it my own.
2026-01-07 01:02:30
I wrote most of my book years ago, so this is the first time I’ve actually run it through AI to get some feedback on structure, redundancies to trim, and grammar problems. It’s valuable, but it’s also leaving me with doubt that I didn’t have before.
Let’s say I let AI come up with a bridge paragraph that helps tie something together. Just a few sentences. Is it still my work? Am I contributing in a small way to the slop of the web?
For a blog post, this wouldn’t bother me. There is something about a “book” that gives me pause, even though it’s 50k of my own words. The tiny part that AI helped with would barely register.
I expect artists will go through the same dilemma. Art that is 95% human, 5% robot. Or podcasters that let AI edit each episode. You might think editing doesn’t matter, but there is a craft to it and how it shapes the pacing of a show.
This balance of how much of creative work we give up will be different for everyone. There will be purists for which nothing short of 100% human will be acceptable. I get that, and perhaps for some things I agree. For programming, I would go in the opposite direction, fine if AI writes more and more code.
Books and blogs are different than programming for me. I want the human voice. When I read other people’s blogs, I want to feel a connection to the authors. I want my own book to be genuine, and I think it is, even if there are bits here and there where a robot pointed me in the right direction.
2026-01-06 23:35:01
When I experimented with not federating my posts for a few months, I also accidentally muted everything from Mastodon. Now that I’m seeing everything again, I’m not sure my life is better. Perhaps there should be a preference to temporary hide external posts — Mastodon, Bluesky, Tumblr, etc.
2026-01-06 11:26:53
Sean Heber blogs about the continued devaluation of software, comparing it to Zork in the 1980s.
In 2026 there is going to be more software than ever, much of at least AI-assisted if not outright slop, and so more competition. More indie developers, but maybe fewer successful ones.
2026-01-06 10:17:40
Intrigued by the upcoming LEGO smart bricks. It’s crazy what is possible now. I ordered a few widgets from SparkFun the other day to experiment with… So tiny and powerful.
2026-01-06 08:39:07
Satya Nadella started a new blog at the end of 2025. A couple interesting things about it… There is no mention of Microsoft, so it feels like a personal blog, and he quotes Steve Jobs:
A new concept that evolves “bicycles for the mind” such that we always think of AI as a scaffolding for human potential vs a substitute. What matters is not the power of any given model, but how people choose to apply it to achieve their goals.
Also his blog is using Hugo.