Reflections on trying to go a month without AI. I made it two weeks (sort of). 5.2k words, 23 minutes reading time.
Monthly Roundup #45: August 2026
As AI has escalated increasingly quickly, more and more of my posts have ended up focusing on AI.
AI Is Slowing Down
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I wrote an AI textbook — how long until AI can do it better?
Reflections on AI's writing ability and how AI models get more capable.
Is there something it is like to be an AI?
Posted on Wednesday 2 Jul 2025. 1,593 words, 6 links. By Matt Webb.
The AI Industry Is Lying To You
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AI Is Too Expensive
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The AI Industry Is Losing
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Literature fans should welcome AI as a fellow wordsmith | Aeon Essays
Strong resistance to AI among writers is understandable. But it obscures what we share with the machines: language itself
The Subprime AI Crisis Is Here
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The Breath of the Author
The palpable presence of someone else's mind in our best writing should give us pause about the encroachment of AI text
My AI Content Journey
I apologize ahead of time, what follows has no tooling applied to it. No grammar checks, no AI, and...
233. "The Illusion of Thinking" — Thoughts on This Important Paper
This is a fantastic paper. I just love it. tl;dr AI is not human. Anthropomorphization has been bad for AI, LLMs, and Chat. Clippy walked so today's AI could run.
God Damn AI is making me dumb
It's so god damn tempting to use AI to write. Whether it is articles, code, or documents. I feel like using AI is diminishing my ability to write myself. ...
