Post an AI Image and Unfriend Me
September 26, 2026
A post told everyone who shares AI-generated images to unfriend the author and skip the argument. His real point was reasonable. The ultimatum turned it into a dare.
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Artificial intelligence and the working writer: what AI genuinely helps with, where it fails, what stays yours, and how a professional uses it without surrendering the voice that makes a book worth reading.
AIShe Asked How to Publish Her Bedtime Story. They Called Her a Thief.
September 26, 2026
A mother asked a self-publishing group how to publish the bedtime story she wrote for her daughter with AI illustrations. The thread called her gross, a thief and a bad writer, and buried the answers she needed.
AIThe AI Hype Cycle: Why the Crash Is Coming, and Who’s Causing It
September 26, 2026
Every big technology wave follows the same curve, from wild expectations to a crash to quiet usefulness. Gartner says generative AI is already in the trough, yet the spending keeps climbing, and the people pumping it up are the ones…
AISix Claude Prompts That Get You Unstuck, and Why the Order Matters
September 25, 2026
Claude only helps as much as you let it. Give it the real details, then run six prompts in order in one conversation, from finding the cause of a problem to picking one move for the next 24 hours.
AIDogpiled Over AI Art at the Renaissance Faire
September 25, 2026
A longtime fan posted AI-generated tribute images to a Texas Renaissance Festival group, and more than a hundred people dogpiled him. He broke the group's unwritten rule, and the community has good reasons for it. None of that earned him…
AIClaude Opus 5.5: What the New Release Means for Writers
September 23, 2026
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 on September 22, 2026, claiming Fable-level work at 40% less than Opus 5. The parts that matter to writers are the style-rule claim, a sharp drop in invented quotes, and one admission buried in the…
AITrump’s AI Force Is a Fire Department With No Fire Code
September 22, 2026
Trump announced an AI Force and a coming AI czar with no mission, budget or legal basis, and a plan to police AI through the courts after the damage is done. That's a fire department with no fire code.
AII Spent Weeks Debugging Code That Should Have Been Deleted
September 1, 2026
If your team has been stuck on the same problem for more than a few days, the fastest fix is usually to delete the work and start over, and almost nobody does it. I lost weeks to a bug that…
AIWe Built Fraud Detection Before Anyone Called It AI
September 1, 2026
Before you buy AI-branded anomaly detection, ask the vendor one question: what does it compute? If the answer is a baseline and a deviation from that baseline, you are buying a method that has worked since long before anyone put…
AII Hired Someone Who Had Never Written a Line of the Language
September 1, 2026
A resume and an interview tell you what someone says they can do. Neither one tells you what they can do. I found that out as a new manager with a vice president title and no interview training, on a…
AIThe Water Kept Flowing When Nobody Was Watching
August 26, 2026
One question will tell you whether your AI agent project is going to work, and it takes an afternoon to answer. The question is not what the agent can do. It is what the agent is allowed to do when…
AIThe Claude Watermark: What It Does and Why the Panic Is Wrong
August 22, 2026
Anthropic started watermarking Claude's text output on August 2, 2026, and almost every piece of coverage got the mechanism wrong. Nothing was added to your writing. What the mark does, what it proves, and why the SEO panic collapses on…