No matter the process, you can tell when someone isn’t doing the work. But it isn’t as simple as “AI slop or not.” There’s a spectrum of fully generated to assisted to “artisanal, homemade sentences.” If it’s generated and untouched, you notice quickly. Assisted pieces usually feel incongruent if the author phones it in on edits. There are some interesting ideas around evals for writing, which is highly subjective, but I have no idea how we could create universally applicable benchmarks (current tools probably pattern match and use synthetic examples).

It's likely I will produce my best writing using AI, but that's because I practice writing without AI every day.

One of my first projects @vercel was writing the first Workflow SDK announcement with @pranaygp for Ship AI last year. 100 million runs later, we ran it back for the GA launch, but the product did most of the talking this time.

Let it sink in. “It’s since written every line of code I’ve shipped, including itself.”

AI will unleash human creativity in unprecedented ways, but I'm starting to believe that it will make people worse at writing, not better. The promise is quality output with less work, but that makes the learning curve for actual writing skill steeper, and the discipline to improve was already rare. At a minimum, writing will deviate to a homogenous mean—something people are already starting to notice.

This past week I made a charcuterie board for my wedding anniversary. My wife appreciated the bottle of Louis Jadot (from our wedding day), aged Gruyère, apricots, glazed pecans, and local honey. But the Blue Heat Takis didn't hit quite as hard.

I'm the type of person who likes to have a perfect yard. I'm also the type of person who has young kids. Which means my grass is the type of grass that lies to my neighbors about who I really am.

Regardless of where you land on UX clarity discussion in this thread, that topic itself misses the most important point: Notion agents mean this is a solved problem, real or perceived.

TIL that as a 23-year-old, Rudyard Kipling traveled 14,000 miles to try and meet Mark Twain, his literary hero (he did). That's wild. What stranger-heroes would I travel 14,000 miles to track down? Ron Chernow's biography on Twain is excellent, by the way.

I had the chance to chat with @alecswjo and the @floraai team for this story. The times are a-changin', and meeting thoughtful, empathetic people behind AI is a treat.

Me: "AI is so great but writing is still really hard." Successful professional writer: "Writing is hell and also my favorite thing. But also hell." If you know, you know.

It's been 599 days since I posted on X. I've only posted once since it was renamed from Twitter. I figured I'd break the dry spell before I hit 600 days and before April Fools. So, howdy, everyone. I guess I'm back.

"If we don't love it, we don't even bother."

Transformations was a huge reason I transitioned to RudderStack from Segment in my consulting days. It's one of those features that so useful it's hard to remember running pipelines without it.

This is one of the top conversations I've had in the past year—about data, starting things, the deeps of technology and, most importantly, human empathy. A true pleasure, @frankmcsherry and @narayanarjun

Not only did @KostasPardalis create a hierarchy of data needs, but an entire layer was named after me! In all seriousness, there is some interesting bundling happening across these layers with tools like @_hex_tech and @sigmacomputing.

What an adventure to be on from seed stage to the announcement of our Series B @RudderStack ! Knowing this team, though, it was only a matter of when. Also, I'm hiring for all sorts of roles on the marketing team, so reach out if you want to join the rocket ship!

I'm pumped to announce that @RudderStack raised a $21m Series A from @kleinerperkins. When I joined last year, the next round seemed a long way off, but with focus and execution you can cover serious ground. In this next phase...more focus and execution :) Onward! 🚀