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  • A short manifesto for engaging with AI

    Seven principles for engaging with AI: make informed choices, pursue useful work, weigh the costs, maintain independence, take responsibility for results, acknowledge how work is made and respect other people’s…

  • Why I’m rebuilding Niche Clever

    Why Niche Clever is being rebuilt: what AI has changed in what I can build, how the portfolio and Ask fit the site, and what the site is for.

  • Understand before you rebuild

    An inherited system rarely consists only of the thing visible on screen. There is the architecture somebody meant to build, and there is the second architecture that accumulated through use:…