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
