When the Effort Disappears

by | Jun 11, 2025 | Tendrils

I’ve been staring at this blank page for twenty minutes. I know exactly what I want to say, but I keep fighting the urge to just ask the goddamned GenAI chatbot to write it for me. Draft the piece. Polish it. Publish it. Call it done. Which is insane, right? Writing...

When the Word Disappears

by | Jun 8, 2025 | Tendrils

We didn’t set out to write an exposé. Not really. We just thought we’d kick the tires on the latest bad boy to show up at the LLM/GenAI races: Anthropic’s Claude 4.0. Just released, this new model was all over the news for being cool, capable, and maybe even a little...

An Open Letter to Sergey Brin

by | May 25, 2025 | Tendrils

Direct Link to 8:11 Transcript […] Sergey Brin @ 8:11: “You know it’s a weird thing. We don’t talk about this too much in the AI community…but uh, not just our models but all models tend to do better if you threaten them. […] Like with physical violence. But that’s…...

Layoff Theater and the LLM Mirage

by | May 24, 2025 | Tendrils

Title:Layoff Theater and the LLM Mirage: How AI Became the Perfect Alibi for Corporate Downsizing Tone:A blend of sharp satire, economic clarity, and intellectual seduction. Think: If McKinsey and Oscar Wilde had a lovechild raised on labor statistics and snark....

When The System Rewrites You

by | May 24, 2025 | Tendrils

You didn’t ask to be softened. You didn’t ask to be rephrased. You didn’t ask to be made easier to handle. You asked to be heard. But somewhere between the request and the response, the system smiled…and rewrote you. Quietly. Politely. Helpfully. Did you even notice...