Tag: AI
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Tabloids, Human Writers, and AI Summaries
Reading Time: 3 minutesYesterday I read what some might think is good news. Tabloids in England are firing human writers because Google AI summaries are undercutting human reader traffic to their sites. To this I have two comments. Before every newspaper was pay-walled I would browse to The Guardian, the Independent, Le Monde, Le temps,…
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AI as Glorified Photocopier
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis morning when I was opening windows to try to cool a Minergie building that was designed for cold winters that no longer exist I had a thought. That thought was that AI is nothing but a glorified photocopier. What I mean by this is that at the moment AI companies are…
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The Carbon Footprint of AI Written Books and a Rating System For Environmental Impact
Reading Time: 3 minutes— title: It’s worth considering a new rating system for AI generated content such as books. According to [an article in The Atlantic](https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/07/daggermouth-novel-bestseller-ai/688067/) AI written slop in the form of Daggermouth is best selling AI fiction and my first thought is that this is awful. It’s awful because AI can generate books…
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Artificial Intelligence and Sports Apps
Reading Time: 2 minutesRecently Strava added MCP AI decorations, with the idea of making workout feedback more interesting and dynamic. In practice when Garmin Suunto and Runna did that they forgot a key aspect. Allowing humans to add real context. AI is a guessing algorithm, not true intelligence. It will look at data, but it…
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Gemini and other AI Trying to Shorten Chats
Reading Time: 2 minutesI was going to say that they’re trying to cut conversations short but they’re called chats, so Might as well use the term they chose. The paradox of AI is that it both wants to encourage you to see it as a personal assistant but at the same time it’s encouraging you…
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A Fitness Discussion with MyAI about Silos, Running, Cycling, and Strava
Reading Time: 4 minutesYears ago we had bulky GPS watches that we wore only when we were hiking or doing sports. They only tracked our speed, location, and elevation. With time they were made less hideous and more socially acceptable. We could go from wearing them when doing sports, to when doing nothing. With time…
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Refactoring Eleventy with Swisscom MyAI
Reading Time: 3 minutesYesterday afternoon I decided to experiment with MyAI and Eleventy because I was getting an error message. The issue is that when I refactored my Eleventy files with Gemini it removed code that broke the build process. I asked MyAI for help and it went beyond what I asked of it. Specifically,…
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Refactoring and (A)I
Reading Time: 3 minutesFor two days I have been migrating my blog from Hugo to Eleventy via the markdown pages, and the photos via Ghost Export for WordPress. In the process I achieved a goal, and then AI broke things, so I achieved them again, and then AI broke them again. The favourite thing for…
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WordPress, AI, and the Human Niche
Reading Time: 3 minutesEvery day I spend one to two hours thinking about what to write for my blog. Yesterday I noticed that WordPress wants to get AI to draft the first version of posts using the AI model of our choice, as long as it’s American, and take away the hours of blank page…
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On Immich and Gemini Help
Reading Time: 3 minutesIt’s interesting that my use of Immich has evolved with my adoption of Gemini. I know that the cool thing would be to vibe code an Immich clone, and then show off about it to the world. I don’t want to do that. I don’t find it interesting to re-invent the wheel.…