AI And The Ship of Theseus

After AI Takes Everything | Airing

Prompted by letters from three engineers, the author asks what remains for humans as AI takes over execution, naming judgment, taste, and derivation as irreplaceable, and warns against the erosion of subjecthood.

The Transformation of Documents: Repositories Are the New Unit of Knowledge Work

How will documents evolve when AI agents become ubiquitous? In a world of AI agents, does the repository become the source of truth—where humans declare intent, agents turn it into executable artif…

The Age of Academic Slop is Upon Us

what happens when AI automates "normal science"?

On AI and building your own GIS software

Of the thousands of essays over the past two years surrounding AI and its implications are some very thought provoking ones with enormous implications for GIS. Some of the essays are around the the…

The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem

Meta pirated millions of books to train its AI. Search through them here.

Co-Existence and the End of Co-Intelligence

Also: how pitch a book to an AI!

AI is a bureaucratic technology. So is fighting war.

What happens when AI slop hits targeting systems and civil liberties?

AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop

ISBNdb, a company that sources printed books for AI companies to turn into training data, tells clients “the optics problem is real.”

AI Makes Better Software

Don't use AI to ship software faster. Use it to ship better software.

AI and the Destruction of the Creative Commons

The balance of software copyright protection and openness has always been fraught with minutiae and detail that bores all but the most nerdy of pedants. Yet, through much effort and 40 years of debate we had reached an equilibrium. Now AI has thrown that out the window.

How AI slop is causing a crisis in computer science

Preprint repositories and conference organizers are having to counter a tide of ‘AI slop’ submissions.

AI Slopageddon and the OSS Maintainers

AI slop is ripping up the social contract between maintainers and contributors essential to open source development. Practitioners have been repeatedly assured that AI would supercharge their communities, but so far that hasn’t been the case. Just look at what happened last month. Mitchell Hashimoto’s Ghostty implemented a zero-tolerance policy where submitting bad AI-generated code

AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less

If you lived through the shift from handcrafted server pets to immutable infrastructure, you should sense something oddly familiar about what's happening now.

How we use AI at Stalwart

It is difficult to have a conversation about software in 2026 without AI showing up in it. Two years ago the interesting question was…

Trusting your own judgement on ‘AI’ is a huge risk

Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland