What if we were generic all along, and AI only proved it?
Scarcity was always going to lose to something faster and cheaper. Specificity is the part a model can't reach.
Human in the Loop
AI won't replace your expertise. It will expose whether you had any. Personal essays from the professional middle: the judgment calls, identity questions, and uncomfortable moments that don't show up in the frameworks. For practitioners navigating the AI transition without a script.
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Was it generative AI? In Ohio's race for governor, the question itself is spin
A real video got waved off as AI and an altered photo got waved off as satire. Both were settled the same way: someone kept the original.
A byline floating free of a history is just a font
Two mastheads let fabricated writers through this year, and the byline was never what caught it.
The Messiness Premium
Polish used to prove effort. Now it indicates a machine make it.
They’re Not Asking About Taste Anymore
What to say when a younger colleague asks how you decide.
Professional Identity Purgatory
The version where you keep your job and lose the meaning anyway
The Standup Nobody Wants to Have
Why the silence after 'I used AI' isn't awkward. It's organized.
You're Not a Fraud for Using AI. The Fraud Is the Silence.
A Three-Questions Audit for Transparent AI Usage
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Every other Friday, on how trust gets built and broken in a synthetic world. Written by someone who builds with these tools daily, and shows the receipts.