S1E29 - Tech As Anti-Design

Design to compensate for a lack of design

The purpose doesn't really matter Support Faster and Worse by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/faster-and-worse

Because the means are predetermined Referenced article: Computers and communication design: exploring the rhetoric of HCI https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/174809.174812 Support Faster and Worse by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/faster-and-worse

AI is not a tool or a technology. It is a product.

Useful is the lowest possible bar for any product, let alone a billion dollar, all energy-consuming, one

If they don't say what it's for, we can't say if it works

Things don't look good if you like making things with code

An LLM wrapped in space-grade aluminium is an amplified slop machine.

When we define our own purpose for their product

The unsung hero of humane design