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Writing interface language is like

Bas Leenders

Bas Leenders

22 Sep 2010
Writing interface language is like writing dialog for a play. You want to make it clear who is speaking at all times.

Erika Hall explains why not to use My in UI’s, in Super Unsuck It! Bye-Bye, My.

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Beyond our ability to understand and control them

AI-model capabilities have already advanced beyond our ability to understand and control them Casey Newton – The Hugging Face attack was worse than we thought

08 Sep 2026

The singular of data is anecdote

The plural of anecdote may not be data, but the singular of data is anecdote. xkcd, on statistics in Sports Commentary

23 Jun 2026

It is fundamentally dishonest to have a machine […] using first-person pronouns

I would argue that it is fundamentally dishonest to have a machine emit many categories of sentences, including any sentences using first-person pronouns. Ted Chiang arguing that No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious, but more importantly… Generative AI is harmful enough when we understand it as a conventional technology,

04 Jun 2026

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

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

31 May 2026
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