October 7, 2026
Skills vs. fine-tuning (or, why my kids are terrible at putting away laundry)
Exploring the difference between skills and fine-tuning through the lens of parenting and AI.
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I spent ten years teaching college English. Now I teach developers, search engines, and AI systems to understand each other.
Writing about developer experience, AI tooling, and the communities that make tech worth working in.
Currently Developer Experience Lead, AI Platform at Paper Compute
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A Treatise on Writing in the AI Age
Ownership, Not Origin
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A Treatise on Writing in the AI Age
The Wrong Problem
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A Treatise on Writing in the AI Age
The Stigma Machine
An AI disclosure badge isn't neutral metadata, it's a verdict. Why stigma-backed mandates punish the writers doing things honestly while doing nothing to stop the ones who don't.
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A Treatise on Writing in the AI Age
The Disclosure Double Standard
Ghostwriting has been undisclosed for a century, and nobody calls it fraud. So why does one tool get a mandatory badge? A look at the double standard baked into AI disclosure rules.
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A Treatise on Writing in the AI Age
Why We Write
When a Dev.to moderator flagged my post for AI assistance, it raised a question we've stopped asking: why do we write at all, and what should the rules around AI-assisted writing actually protect?
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