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7 articles tagged "long-form"
AI tools don't remember the way humans do. A philosophical third entry in the Hallucinations series on the specific failure modes around memory — and what it means that the tools don't have the thing that makes human cognition what it is.
Here's a scene that plays out more often than anyone writing about AI lately has been willing to admit. Consider a hobbyist — this is a pattern we've heard several versions of — who used an AI assistant three months ago to brainstorm names for a small woodworking project. Bookshe…
A long, honest look at the question every engaged person with a chat window now asks at 2 am. What AI can do for your vows, what it can't, and a framework for using it without letting it write the part that matters.
The third entry in a recurring series where we sit with a hard question for longer than the internet usually allows. [The first entry was about parents and homework](/blog/in-the-weeds-can-i-trust-ai-with-my-kids-homework) — what happens when a parent opens a chatbot at 9:17 pm o…
Mainstream productivity AI is designed for neurotypical users and fails ADHD users in specific, predictable ways. But AI has structural qualities — infinite patience, zero judgment, no emotional drain — that match ADHD needs surprisingly well when the tools are designed for the actual neurology.
There's a specific kind of Tuesday afternoon that ADHD adults know by heart. You opened a browser tab an hour ago with a real reason. The reason is gone now. The tab is still there, glowing faintly, asking a question you can't answer. There are eleven other tabs just like it. Som…
An honest essay about the specific ways AI falls short around loss, eldercare, and caregiving — and why that still leaves it useful if you know where the edges are.
An honest essay about the specific ways AI fails the people making original work, and why that failure is a feature of how language models work, not a bug they can fix.
Here's a pattern we've heard from working creatives often enough to take it seriously. A painter with twenty years of practice — the kind of person whose studio smells like turpentine and coffee and something else you can't name — asks an image model to make "a painting in my sty…
A long, honest look at AI homework help — what it's actually good for, what it breaks, and a framework for keeping it useful without letting it do the learning.
The first entry in a recurring series where we sit with a hard question for longer than the internet usually allows.*
A long, practical look at what it really means to learn when you have an AI chat window open. The failure modes, the honest uses, and a framework for keeping your own brain in the loop.
The second entry in a recurring series where we sit with a hard question for longer than the internet usually allows. The [first In the Weeds entry was about parenting](/blog/in-the-weeds-can-i-trust-ai-with-my-kids-homework) — specifically, about what happens when a parent opens…