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Failed Writer's Journey: AI, Contests, and Why Do You Bother, Then?
A story written with AI won a contest run by a literary magazine.
 • K.C. Vellum
Imitative AI and the Problem of What Problem You are Solving
I hate boilerplate code — the code that handles all the little plumbing details, the setup, the config, the weird syntactic quirks of each language…
 • K.C. Vellum
Sunday Good Reads For May 17th, 2026
Dead car batteries suck.
 • K.C. Vellum
Failed Writer's Journey: An Ambiguous Post About Ambiguous Works Not Being Ambiguous
This one wanders a bit, so grab a snack and a compass and come stagger around aimlessly with me as I try and figure out why I am so ambiguous about…
 • K.C. Vellum
The Problem With Having Fscks to Give: A Short Review of Digital Inc
Should I Read This: Maybe
 • K.C. Vellum
If You Want To Prepare Kids for an Imitative AI Future, Ban Imitative AI from Schools.
Senators Schiff and Rounds, one Democrat, one Republican, have or plan to introduce a bill to improve the artificial intelligence literacy of school…
 • K.C. Vellum
Sunday Good Reads for May 10th, 2026
Happy Mothers Day to all who celebrate!
 • K.C. Vellum
Imitative AI is Not Sentient Just Because it Flatters You
Imitative AI flatters at almost every turn, and that is rotting the brains of people.
 • K.C. Vellum
Sunday Good Reads for May 3rd, 2026
Some words for the end of the week.
 • K.C. Vellum

April 2026

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