Originally I titled this post ‘AI = Not Interested’ but I realised that is not really my state of mind. I am somewhat interested. I am not dismissive of the discourse. There is something happening. I’ve enjoyed Tom’s experiments and Doug’s folk software (a term he introduced me to that I prefer over the slightly icky ‘vibe coding’.) It reminds me of an era in the open web where all the RSS and APIs and things like Yahoo Pipes meant people were always spinning up little personal pieces of software. We lost that web a long time ago and maybe it is the nostalgia that has me seeing the good in this element of AI but I do at least find it intriguing and have even played a little in that sandbox in the past. Also while I acknowledge, and have witnessed, everything Rachel points out in this post about the risks of AI notetaking I have started to find that helpful – especially the summaries that Co-Pilot spits out. This might be circumstance specific – I missed a lot of meetings with my…
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