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joincolossus.com

AI will not make you rich

The disruption is real. It’s also predictable.

zettelkasten.de

The scam called “you don’t have to remember anything”

Debunking the myth that search engines and AI eliminate the need for memory.

geoffreylitt.com

AI as teleportation

Here’s a thought experiment for pondering the effects AI might have on society: What if we invented teleportation?

newsminimalist.com

News minimalist

A news aggregator that ranks news by significance. It uses ChatGPT to analyze ~30,000 news articles every day, ranking significance from 0 to 10.

kk.org

The trust quotient (TQ)

Trust is a broad word that will be unbundled as it seeps into the AI ecosystem.

thenanyu.com

Skip to the end

Computers gave us the means, but AI gives us the ends. What was virtually impossible became trivial in a hurry.

interconnected.org

The destination for AI interfaces is "do what I mean"

A smart + straightforward way to frame how AI will change the user interface.

spyglass.org

A cynical read on Anthropic’s book settlement

$1.5B. Damn. Who can afford to pay that? A very cynical read.

danielmiessler.com

No, AI is not a bubble

Why the AI bubble argument misunderstands both bubbles and AI.

tpgi.com

On dashes, AI, and screen readers

Em dash, en dash, hyphen, minus symbol - what do they have to do with AI and how do screen readers treat them?

smashingmagazine.com

Beyond the hype: what AI can really do for UX

From analytics and ideation to prototyping and visual design—where AI fits and where it doesn’t, illustrated with real-world examples.

blog.robbowley.net

Maybe it wasn’t the tech after all

What if most of the benefit from successful technology change doesn’t come from the technology at all?

baldurbjarnason.com

The melancholy of history rhyming

The “AI” Bubble feels more like the all-encompassing wasteland that was the 2007 bubble in Iceland than anything else.

drorpoleg.com

Are we in a bubble?

In a world of intangible assets, the only way to identify a bubble is to see it pop.

taylorgordonlunt.substack.com

My AI predictions for 2027

Nothing particularly scary happens (beyond the kind of hype-driven scariness already present in 2025).

anthonymoser.github.io

I am an AI hater

I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.

bencallahan.com

Where AI is failing design systems, and where we are failing AI

How much instability, lack of quality, or impermanence can we tolerate in our tools?

teybannerman.com

Redefining ‘human in the loop’

A practical framework for designing human-AI oversight that actually works.

lukew.com

Rethinking applications for AI

With every new technology platform, the concept of an application shifts. Now with AI it's happening again.

fastcompany.com

AI isn’t design’s biggest problem

Most AI output has a bland sameness, but that also sounds like a lot of contemporary graphic design. Is AI a chance to break free?