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Every generation tries to build social levees against the rising water of a new medium. The water doesn't care.

The market model is dying. Not because anyone attacked it. Because the tools changed. What replaces scarcity?

If preciousness is market logic, what does a non-market logic of art actually look like? Pass it around. Let it change shape.

I like staying in the moment. There's something about the present that feels permanent, untouchable. That if I have food in my belly and music in my life, I can be happy.

Where did our obsession with singular, precious authorship come from? The lone genius myth is an economic invention.

On AI, Labor, and the End of the Moat

I've had more names on the internet than I've had prescription strengths. That era is over

Adoption went up. AI-authored code went up. Gains flatlined. The bottleneck was never the tools.

We're writing more code than ever. We're also duplicating more, refactoring less, and quietly degrading the thing we're building.

AI didn't reduce the demand on your best engineers. It redirected it. 6.5% more code reviewed. 19% less original work.

My name is Carl and I work at Floor Mart. I always have worked at Floor Mart and always will work at Floor Mart, forever and ever, amen.

The experience gap in AI-assisted coding isn't a bug in the tools. It's a feature of expertise itself.

Every AI productivity study is a photograph of a river. By the time you develop the film, the water has moved.

Sighted people use the world around them to help them remember thing. When you can't do that, your brain builds something different. Something that might actually be better in some cases.