AI and Work

9 posts tagged “AI and Work”.

  1. Two lit rooms seen from outside at dusk, with a dark gap between them
    8 min readPerspectives

    What's your perspective on AI?

    In one room I sound like a shill and in the other like a sceptic. Both sides of the AI argument arrive with the answer already decided.

  2. A small figure follows an orange path through a series of thresholds towards a distant handover.
    8 min readTechnology

    Making sense of AI agents

    What is an AI agent? A plain explanation of how agents choose actions, use tools, differ from chatbots and hand work back to people.

  3. Two people weave loose threads at the edge of a vast ordered tapestry.
    6 min readPerspectives

    The exceptions were the job

    AI can remove routine tasks while leaving people with harder exceptions and fewer chances to build judgement. The easy work was carrying part of the job.

  4. A person tends a small green plant in a mostly empty studio lit by a narrow patch of warmth.
    3 min readPerspectives

    The selfish reason to still care

    Detachment is a rational response to corporate work. It also dulls the judgment you were protecting. On caring about the craft rather than the company.

  6. Three different vehicles wait at the start of three roads leading through the same landscape.
    3 min readTechnology

    Which AI model you should actually pay for

    A Corolla, a Porsche and a Range Rover. A practical way to choose between AI tools, plus where the analogy breaks and how to test them on your own work.

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  7. Informal conversations and hand-offs form an orange network beneath a faded formal organisation chart.
    4 min readPerspectives

    The org chart nobody wrote down

    Every project runs on two layers. One is documented and being automated fast. The other decides whether the project lives, and it was never written down.

  8. A ceramicist selects one glowing vessel from rows of similar handmade pots.
    4 min readPerspectives

    Taste is the thing you can't download

    Language models are built to return the average. Taste is judgment shaped by evidence only you have, which is why it holds value when tools are shared.