OMG. I was just listening to a podcast where the hosts recommended that you workshop your yearly theme with Claude. I love your clear eyed analysis of their landing page. As an architect I'm always interested to to see how we are being maneuvered by our surroundings.
But resist the urge! I often think of that panel in Sandman where he commented that he had invested too much of his innate power into his tools.
I once dabbled with using AI as a thesaurus, but I quickly stopped that because it felt like I was outsourcing some decision making to the machine. There's a place for AI and initial explanations, but it needs to be excluded (early!) when it comes to making.
Thanks, Justus. It's a bit of a confession that Claude gets me, and I it.
And that's so interesting about using AI as a thesaurus -- I'm curious what kinds of responses you received -- if they were just too intuitively helpful. I agree that there is a place for this tech but keeping the skeptic and not the cynic alive is important here.
Agree! As a kid who grew up in San Jose and has silicon-valley libertarian-ish tendencies, I have no doubt Claude would get me too!
For AI as a thesaurus, I found it oddly specific. This was early in 2023, so AI had not completely crossed the uncanny valley. In terms of efficiency it was faster and mor direct a normal thesaurus. But it was too perfect. Which is why I went back to the "book" (actually the phone app word hippo). The experiment made me realize that scrolling through a massive list of words was fundamentally part of the process of how I write my 5-word-pieces.
Thank you Andrew. And a mention of Cooper And Beatty no less. I worked for the transition of that company called Batten Graphics with members of origin company. Good memories. 😊
Thanks for such a thoughtful post.
Thank you! I am hoping that Claude will also comment!
OMG. I was just listening to a podcast where the hosts recommended that you workshop your yearly theme with Claude. I love your clear eyed analysis of their landing page. As an architect I'm always interested to to see how we are being maneuvered by our surroundings.
But resist the urge! I often think of that panel in Sandman where he commented that he had invested too much of his innate power into his tools.
I once dabbled with using AI as a thesaurus, but I quickly stopped that because it felt like I was outsourcing some decision making to the machine. There's a place for AI and initial explanations, but it needs to be excluded (early!) when it comes to making.
Thanks, Justus. It's a bit of a confession that Claude gets me, and I it.
And that's so interesting about using AI as a thesaurus -- I'm curious what kinds of responses you received -- if they were just too intuitively helpful. I agree that there is a place for this tech but keeping the skeptic and not the cynic alive is important here.
Agree! As a kid who grew up in San Jose and has silicon-valley libertarian-ish tendencies, I have no doubt Claude would get me too!
For AI as a thesaurus, I found it oddly specific. This was early in 2023, so AI had not completely crossed the uncanny valley. In terms of efficiency it was faster and mor direct a normal thesaurus. But it was too perfect. Which is why I went back to the "book" (actually the phone app word hippo). The experiment made me realize that scrolling through a massive list of words was fundamentally part of the process of how I write my 5-word-pieces.
Loving the ideas and your writing. I am not a visual designer, I am a designer of experiences. And there are so many correlations. Thanks for writing!
Thank you so much, Cate. You know you're one of the people that inspired me and informed this newsletter. I hope I can confess that here, too!
Thank you Andrew. And a mention of Cooper And Beatty no less. I worked for the transition of that company called Batten Graphics with members of origin company. Good memories. 😊