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His art does not look like AI at all to me. Maybe I have good AI-dar.

In Catalonia, Spain, police have been profiling people carrying Pixel phones, assuming they have GrapheneOS installed and are drug dealers or gang members. WTF.

The Amiga, and this era of computing, were before my time. But it is surprisingly fun to browse through some of this stuff, and get insights into the very early days of software de…

What's the quality level of what they are producing this way? Are they ending up with good pieces of writing?

The most interesting part of the official announcement [0]: "As people gravitate toward firsthand perspectives..." That implies Google is seeing a shift away from people relying on…

This is the right way to use it! You're not making it write for you. You are instead using it to help you write your own words. Massively different.

I wrote a post on linkedin last year titled "Do not use AI to write." Boy, was it controversial. I could not believe how hard some people were pushing back in the comments. Quoting…

That's interesting, thanks for sharing this. Yes, I can see that as a big part of the value a publisher can add, in making the book better.

Yep, linked there for anyone who is curious! Given the topic, I was concerned they might push me to stuff AI into it, but like I said they did not do that at all.

This is absolutely true, speaking as someone who has both self-published and also published with a big publisher. Each choice has pros and cons. In my case, I self-published and so…

That's great! I am not surprised.

That was definitely my experience.

Haha good question. No, but I did not ask; I wanted to give them as much freedom as I could bear on aspects of the process I was not too attached to, so I let them pick. I will say…

I had written and self-published three books, and in 2024 decided to publish the most successful one with O'Reilly. It went up for sale in December 2024. The whole experience was w…