artificial-intelligence writing

However bad a writer you think you are, you are not worse than AI

Bas Leenders

31 May 2026

However bad a writer you think you are, you are not worse than AI. But you still keep letting it do your writing for you, as if I won’t be able to tell. Listen: I can tell. I can always tell. You think I won’t notice, but I will. There’s no hiding from me. If you let AI do your writing I will find out, and I will kill you.

Sam Kriss on bad AI writing, and threatening: If you let AI do your writing, I will come to your house and kill you

A man in an armchair, charmed by his own reflection

What we got instead was a man in an armchair, charmed by his own reflection. Mike Hall on The Skeptic, disputing Richard Dawkins’ AI consciousness arguments

I apprehend time the way a map apprehends space.

I apprehend time the way a map apprehends space. Claude AI, talking about consciousness with Richard Dawkins: Is AI the next phase of evolution?

A glorified Excel spreadsheet can do what I can but better

I hate the way they’ve taken over the software industry, I hate how they make me feel while I’m using them, and I hate the human-intelligence-insulting postulation that a glorified Excel spreadsheet can do what I can but better. Nolan Lawson in AI ambivalence | Read the Tea Leaves

We are entering the industrial age of the digital age

There will be more software than ever, as its production is automated; we are entering the industrial age of the digital age. But less of this code will be elegant, or considerate, or graceful. Greg Knaus on AI replacing coders, in An Entirely Other Day: Lose Myself

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A man in an armchair, charmed by his own reflection

I apprehend time the way a map apprehends space.

A glorified Excel spreadsheet can do what I can but better

We are entering the industrial age of the digital age