Skip to content

Essays

Short essays about AI, for adults who live alongside it without working in software. Each one stands alone. Read them in any order; if you are new here, start at the top.

Dated 2026-05-28

We will be ok

The premise the whole publication works from: AI is a partner that can make you better, not a replacement and not a threat, useful and fallible in exactly the way a partner is.

Dated 2026-06-01

Your name stays on it

A firefighter, a radio, and a partner that knows where its knowledge ends. What it means to stay the one who decides when the machine is calm, fast, and usually right.

Dated 2026-06-03

Borrowed judgment

A capable tool, new territory, and the judgment that never forms because the work was done for you from the first day. The quiet failure no metric turns red for, and the work you have to go build on purpose.

More will follow when there is something true enough to say.