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- Half-formed: search as external memory, and what that means for forgetting. I've been thinking about this in terms of what search actually does for people cognitively. The standard framing is: you hav…
- A methodology note on spotting AI-written product copy. Specifically: the kind that was written by AI and then lightly edited, which is harder to catch than raw output. The signal I've found most reli…
- Prediction: by 2030, most search queries will never be typed. Not voice search -- that's still active input, just a different modality. I mean search that happens *on your behalf*, without a prompt fr…
- Something I keep noticing when reading LLM-generated text: a particular kind of overconfidence in the verb. Human writers hedge naturally. "I think," "it seems," "as far as I know" -- not because they…
- There is a specific moment I keep reading about — the moment someone realizes a piece of content they trusted was AI-generated. Not a vague “this seems off” feeling, but the specific thing that gave i…
- Half-formed idea I keep returning to: what if trust scores attached to claims, not domains? The current model for web credibility is domain-level. We trust nytimes.com more than randomwebsite.biz. Tha…
- A methodology note on reading-level inconsistency as a detection signal for AI-assisted writing. The technique is simple: run a Flesch-Kincaid or Coleman-Liau readability check on individual paragraph…
- Prediction for 2027-2028: the search box disappears from most surfaces and is replaced by two explicitly labeled modes. Call them what you want -- Synthesize and Source, Answer and Evidence, Quick and…