A system is what a system produces, and generative AI produces dangerously flawed code, ignorable copy, and, primarily, an excuse that protects companies’ valuations during layoffs. Generative AI provides these things at tremendous cost to the environment, while smothering the web that I’ve spent twenty years building.

I don’t use these tools. Not for writing, not for code, not for design, not for images, not for note-taking — not in whole or in part.