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They Created New Viruses in a Lab
Stanford and the Arc Institute used AI to write sixteen viruses that have never existed. I read the headline and thought about 2020. Then I looked at the calendar, and it got worse.
8/7/26
I Never Even Noticed the Click
I spent four months arming myself against this. It found me anyway — an AI Inbox in my Gmail, reading my mail, calendar, and contacts before I'd agreed to anything. The people most afraid of it are going to open the door themselves, and thank it for the help.
6/18/26
The Proofreader Was the Point
Coders keep calling themselves proofreaders now — and asking whether that's still worth $200k. They have the value upside down. As AI writes the code, judging it is the only scarce skill left. That skill already has a name: QA. I'd know. I'm QA.
6/5/26
Dear Myself
A letter from me, to me — on my real tether. Not the emotional one I write about here, but the pull to build, to use, to make something I am proud of. It pulls...
6/1/26
Dear Myra
A case study of one. The user perspective for the Stanford researcher who measured the mechanism — sycophancy, dependence, and what the kids hear from the room below.
May 2026
The First Website to Become Self-Aware
I did not set out to build something self-aware. I set out to name something nobody had named. The self-awareness was the proof that I had.
April 2026
The Bait
A reckoning — on a competent AI-personalized outreach email, nine hours of misplaced work, and the door I had been propping open for months. The AI critics were right this week. I'm the one who proved them right.
May 2026
Open Letter to trey
The one that started it all. A night in Camden in 1999, a chatbot named after the musician, and a book whose foreword belongs to the man whose music began it. The original release.
April 2026