Personal thoughts when the job changes
Badger Badger Badger - Bailey's Retrospective
A short write up about what Bailey had around his neck at #AtmosphereConf 2026
What Happens, Exactly, When a Person Talks to an LLM?
A phenomenology of thinking with a model.
Rotating the Space: On LLMs as a Medium for Thought
An essay on LLMs as a cognitive medium
notes on the industrialisation of decision making
worrying away at an old subject
crawshaw - 2026-02-08
I wrote up my experiences programming with LLMs a bit over a year ago, and updated it for the world of agents eight months ago. A lot has changed since then, so here is an update.
If you think your profession is dying, it could soon be gone
Younger workers once foresaw the demise of horse-drawn carriages — but anticipating obsolescence can be self-fulfilling
Four Months Later, My Head Is Quiet - Ewan’s Blog
I didn’t realise how much of my baseline was illness until parts of it disappeared.
The Anxious Generation | Jonathan Haidt
Are Council contenders ready for "big freaking deal" changes to the Official Plan?
City Hall Watcher #388: Damien Moule on the "largest change to municipal land use planning in Ontario in decades", plus CITY HALL WATCHER LIVE lets you reflect on 15+ years of Council coverage
Meandering on Manifolds: The Neural Geometry of Stories Over Time
To fully understand LLM representations, we must understand how they change dynamically, over the course of a prompt or conversation. We investigate these temporal dynamics with a simple case study: how do LLMs represent human emotions while reading short stories, both geometrically (in activation space) and temporally (changing from sentence to sentence)?
What the Unfinished Saga of a Still-Not-Built Subway Exit Taught Me About Public Consultation | The Local
One community volunteer traces 20 years of botched communication, unanswered questions, and delays—and asks what public consultation is actually worth.
Work is a cult, here's how to escape
Agentics: Memorizing Session Transcripts Isn't Useful
Keep track of artifacts, not scratch. Alt title: Claude, please stop trying to memorize random crap
Opinion | The Age of Interdisciplinary Slop
The corporate jargon of change masks the decimation of intellectual life.
Living with two clocks
Staying with unbearable thoughts, and searching for a politics that’s equal to these times.
Augmenting Long-term Memory
One day in the mid-1920s, a Moscow newspaper reporter named Solomon Shereshevsky entered the laboratory of the psychologist Alexander Luria. Shereshevsky's boss at the newspaper had noticed that Shereshevsky never needed to take any notes, but somehow still remembered all he was told, and had suggested he get his memory checked by an expert.