Stuck Character Service
"It's still early days," some guy splutters in anger, peeved that people like myself are cackling loudly at Sal Khan's admission that Khanmigo has been a big flop. "It's simply too soon to say" anything about "AI" in
The Productivity Software Way of Thinking
I was supposed to give a 20-minute presentation this morning, but alas, it is 2026 and our household, once again, has COVID. So I’m skipping the part where I read this piece of writing aloud to a Zoom audience, even though there’d be no chance of infecting them
And I Would Have Gotten Away With It Too If It Weren't For Those Pesky Kids
I realize that you just received an email from me yesterday, and that it's far too soon for more Audrey in your inbox, but I'd feel a bit negligent if I didn't send out my weekly round-up of ed-tech (sigh, "AI") news.
Derailleur of the Mind
Software engineer and educator Greg Wilson recently invoked Steve Jobs’ famous quotation, expanding the metaphor to argue that, “if a computer is a bicycle for the mind, then LLMs are like e-bikes.” They let a lot of people go distances and tackle hills that they couldn’t before, and they’
Illegal Check to the Head
Miseducative Experiences
"Tell me, what is it you plan to do/ with your one wild and precious life?" Arguably and more than a little ironically, this may be one of the most frequently invoked lines of poetry on social media – I won't add "for better or worse,
Anti-Magic
You Do Not, In Fact, Have to Hand It to Them
Way back in 2016, Mark Zuckerberg made a surprise appearance at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, memorialized in a photograph of him striding to the stage past rows of men with the Oculus Rift VR headsets strapped to their faces: Fast forward a decade and now the founder of
Placeholder People
Something I Can Never Have
"AI isn't lightening workloads," The Wall Street Journal reported last week. "It's making them more intense." Well, yes. This is, in fact, how "workload" works under capitalism: labor is perpetually squeezed to do more, to generate more surplus value, to
False Spring
The Final Boss
This morning I attended one of the new NYC Chancellor's public "conversations," his administration's initiative to "engage directly with communities to reflect on what safety, academic rigor, and true integration look like in practice." There were about one hundred folks in attendance,