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Most AI tools are evaluated on what they produce. Is the image good? Is the text accurate? Is the output novel? These are reasonable questions, but they miss something important — whether the person using the tool can sustain a working relationship with it over time. I spent four years studying how creative practitioners (artists,…
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I made a horoscope website. But the stars are bugs. And the bugs have opinions. Fate Bug started because I love silly horoscope websites, but wanted to build something with a little digital twist. It’s a personality quiz dressed up as a mystical experience, designed to tell you which AI tool you should use based…
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We spent ten weeks following a professional artist as she used generative AI for the first time. She came in with seven years of experience across oil painting, collage, and sculpture, but had never touched a text-to-image tool. We wanted to understand what that process actually looks like when it unfolds naturally, without tutorials or…
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This year I’ve read 100 books, around one every 4 days. Not crazy, but a little goal I set myself since I like to tell people I love to read, then forget how much I actually do love to read. I keep track via Goodreads, and here are my top 5 of the year. Blindness…
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Why would AI tools designed specifically for processes we call creative, not be creative? Firstly, interesting creative action often happens when things get broken, or they glitch. Art happens when things break. Not all art of course, but cool stuff can happen when things don’t work as they aren’t meant to. However, this is a…