Link to: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/textedit-and-the-relief-of-simple-software
‘TextEdit and the Relief of Simple Software’
Perhaps at the opposite end of the complexity and novelty spectrum from Federico Viticci’s intro to Clawdbot is this piece by Kyle Chayka, writing at The New Yorker, from October:
Amid the accelerating automation of our computers — and the
proliferation of assistants and companions and agents designed to
execute tasks for us — I’ve been thinking more about the desktop
Richard Beard says he’s got ‘better at telling the truth’ by arranging his life story on a grid – and invites others to do the…
AI-generated writing is easy to spot, prompting addition of human-like errors
Link to: https://www.claris.com/blog/2026/how-claris-is-building-for-what-comes-next
Mastery of banal style is losing its usefulness – but language is more powerful than ever. It’s up to the writer to do what…
This isn’t about smarter devices. It’s about something more profound: ambient computing. A system so integrated, so subtle, and…
Staring into the abyss of AI-generated fiction and finding something both ‘hilarious and bleak’ staring right back.
