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ai

5 posts

• no one in particular

  2026-06-08

  AI prose converges on one register because the LLM has read everything and been nowhere. A voice is the opposite, the residue of one particular, forgetful life, and it is the part the average can never reach.

• a tool for thinking

  2026-06-06

  Writing is a tool for thinking, not the thinking itself. It holds what won't fit in your head and saves where you got to. Hand the working-through to an LLM and you get the result without doing the thinking, and without a state you can pick back up.

• the reps you stop taking

  2026-06-01

  What quietly goes when you let a language model do the thinking, why it's the part of you worth protecting, and how to keep it sharp, in mind and body.

• a compression of a compression

  2026-05-31

  Why putting a thought into words flattens it, what that means for language models trained on the flattened version, and the gap that scale doesn't close.

• the brain drives the tool

  2026-05-22

  What AI actually is, what it's genuinely good for, and the part of the work no language model can do for you.