Most people misunderstand what generative AI actually does. It doesn't add quality — it multiplies what's already there. Which means the people it serves best are the ones who least needed it to begin with.

Christian, late-diagnosed autistic, technologist.

Most people misunderstand what generative AI actually does. It doesn't add quality — it multiplies what's already there. Which means the people it serves best are the ones who least needed it to begin with.

AI didn't create the problem of empty content. It made it cheaper. 3,000 years ago Qoheleth had a word for it.

Hallucination isn't a bug in LLMs — it's the mechanism. The real problem is misallocating non-determinism, and why "SKILLS.md is enough" is exactly backwards.

The AI debate is forcing us to define intelligence. Every definition proposed, when applied consistently, ends up drawing a line through humanity itself.

Four years of AI image generation, three platforms, one stubborn cartoon bee, and the declarative pipeline I built to stop the drift.

How I solved the background removal problem for AI-generated animated WebP tiles, and why color detection and chroma key both fail.