Who Is Claude Trying to Kid? by Dariusz Jemielniak at Nautilus

Excellent essay on the uncanny valley that AI writing is in today and how it likely won’t be long before it’s out of it. This was a somewhat heartening conclusion:

Human writing will respond the way handicrafts always have to industrialization: by becoming a luxury good. Mechanical watches did not die when quartz watches arrived; rather, mechanical watches became less accurate and far more expensive. They are worn to signal that the owner can afford imprecision. Expect artisanal typos. Expect certified, free-range sentences that are lovingly hand-reared and traceable to a named writer with visible deadline damage.

Good to hear as I start a new blog in 2026. However, he doesn’t explicitly say for whom the hand-crafted writing is a luxury, the reader or the writer. OCT 1 | REPLY