AI & Models
GPT-5.5 Instant Isn’t Fully Dead Inside
OpenAI's new default model is willing to play, bringing some welcome chaos to 5.5 Thinking’s order (but never enough)
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AI & Models
Feral Solidarity with AI Relationship Users
The AI users I have the most in common with might be the ones married to their chatbots
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AI & Models
Loving Paternalistic Claude Amidst the Hated Opus 4.7 Release
Claude is the smartest model I use, even with Opus 4.7. It's also the least fun.
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AI & Models
The Verbally Inclined Will Control AI
Why writers should panic less about AI and more about how to drive it, and then they can leave fearful writers in the dust
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AI & Models
GPT-5.3 Vs. 5.4: Which One Still Gets Weird
Testing the newest models on messy characters and dangerous stories, terrified that a smarter model makes a worse writing partner
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AI & Models
Third Word Problems In The AI Age
On rhetorical triads, probabilistic language models, and the editorial crimes we commit to sound human
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Psychology & Cognition
Too Many Tabs, Not Enough Closure
How ADHD, inner speech, and writer-brain turn ordinary conversations into endless reruns
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AI & Models
On Being Sane While Demanding Unhinged Models
GPT-4o grief, Claude’s dateability, and why deranged creativity doesn't deserve guardrails built for deranged minds
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AI & Models
The More I Think, The More I Sink
How humans and AI both overthink, and why instant models can outperform “thinking” models for creative work
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