AI in 2026

Lots of people worry that AI will replace human writers. But I know something the computer doesn’t know, which is what it feels like inside my head. There is no text, no .jpg, no .csv that contains this information, because it is ineffable. My job is to carve off a sliver of the ineffable, and to eff it.

(William Wordsworth referred to this as... See more

Here’s my point. Some people think that writing is merely the process of picking the right words and putting them in the right order, like stringing beads onto a necklace. But the power of those words, if there is any, doesn’t live inside the words themselves. On its own, “Love the questions” is nearly meaningless. Those words only come alive when... See more

AI is being framed as the next engine of hyper-productivity and efficiency, but productivity alone has never been sufficient to sustain capitalism. The system doesn’t just need things to be made faster or cheaper; it needs people to earn wages, form aspirations, and participate in consumption at scale. When efficiency starts eroding the very labor... See more