Whose computer are you building on?
AI tools are the means of production now, and most of us are renting them.
Writing
Essays and field notes on AI-assisted building.
Originals live on Substack, mirrored here so the archive lives on a URL I control.
Cheap AI Was a Sale. The Bill Is Coming.
I run my work on AI on a low income. Here is why the price is about to turn, and why I'm not panicking.
Five Zo Cookbook recipes worth running tonight
Five Zo Computer recipes worth running tonight: a creeping bill, a phishing email, a school form on the counter, your mom's bills, a tired week.
How to learn with AI without getting dumber
A four-step workshop on using AI to build a skill instead of outsourcing the effort.
How to self-host any app without writing code (and what breaks the first time)
The exact prompt I used to install an open-source design tool on my own cloud server, the three things that broke, and one chat message that fixed each.
Tech's silence on ICE is not neutral
A note about a line I have had in my bio for months, and what an AI agent showed me this week.