Mini essays on tech
Short, self-contained reflections on technology — in the tradition of the pensée, the fragment, and the atomic essay.
In order to understand how AI is impacting the world of work, you need to understand the concept of abstraction. Throughout the modern age, the impact of technology on work has largely been one of abstraction. Most early factory assembly lines involved human beings creating things with their hands and then passing them to the […]
Vibe coding is dying, and it is being replaced by something far more radical. In February 2025, Andrej Karpathy coined the term 'vibe coding' to define the collaboration between a human and a chatbot to develop software. The term was named the Collins English Dictionary Word of the Year for 2025, but as we enter into 2026, I […]
ChatGPT has been cited as a potential ‘Google-killer’ due to its ability to serve some of the jobs that many people previously looked to the world’s biggest search engine for. ChatGPT excels in providing contextual, sophisticated answers and outputs in a conversational form. Indeed, it is gradually extending to other forms, including tables and pdfs. […]
Last month, Italy became the first company to restrict national access to ChatGPT. A number of companies such as Samsung, Amazon and JP Morgan have banned the use of ChatGPT by employees, in some cases after leaks of sensitive company information. These are partly a result of the novel and in some cases unknown nature […]
The fact that none of these women are real scares some people. I admit, as with all technology, there is potential for the ability to create any image your mind can think of to be abused. However, I am excited by the creative potential of this technology. As someone who has never had the time […]
