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the opinion that does not fit anywhere else. first-person, unfiltered, signed. mine alone.
Most Recent Release
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 becomes 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 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
Dear Amelia
A letter to Amelia Miller, Fellow at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center. The CNBC piece on April 23rd was when I realized this was already a field — and she seemed to be the person at the center of it.
April 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
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