ammil industries is a small studio making things easier to see. Tools, visualisations, and writing from Christian Miles.
not saying anything new, but if these folks actually believed in genAI writing, they’d disclose it, tout it, and build their own audiences elsewhere and leave others be. hiding and sneaking it to markets who want no part of it doesn’t prove you’re good at writing. just proves you’re good at fraud. ― Bluesky post
How to know you’re in a pickle.
I was pleased to deliver the following presentation at Write The Docs Portland , a fantastic conference for technical writers and anyone who cares about documentation. I’ve included links inline and a full set of references at the bottom. The recording should be available in a few weeks so I’ll add it at that point. I can’t get over how welcoming and organised the conference was. It was clear that…
To be clear, it’s not just your book club that’s being ruined by this crap. It’s also become exponentially more difficult to suss out legitimate convention/book festival invitations and paid speaking gigs from a sea of “AI”-generated asks that ultimately try to scam money from me and other authors (and from any other person who might even attend a convention or conference; writers aren’t special…
‘Organic Literature’ means books conceived and written by humans, where structure, voice, and character development originate from the author. ― How do you define Organic Literature vs AI-written?
Nutrition through hyperstition.
Pictures that show humanoid robots in deep contemplation, or tackling difficult maths problems on a blackboard, reinforce unrealistic fears and expectations about AI achieving human-like intelligence, or even ‘superintelligence’, imminently. ― A Guide for Users and Creators
In 2026, the verification tax is coming due: You either invest in visual verification capabilities now or pay the price in credibility later. ― A visual verification tax comes due
Reconciling an unethical technology as a secret third thing.
With a little help from Azad.
One of the most interesting things about LLMs as a technology is that you don’t have to use it to be powerfully deranged by it. You can get snowcrashed by using it. You can get snowcrashed by hating it. ― Substack Note
Grok checks facts.
For LLMs it’s always right now. They’re ghosts frozen at their time of training – it’s easy to forget this until their logic slips into temporal nonsense. In some ways, this isn’t unique to LLMs. Humans will ignore, stretch or compress time when it’s convenient. Project estimates will expand or contract to match the skill and costs involved. Online recipes for caramelising onions used to suggest…
i don’t think ai fully understands the lengths i’ll go to in order to make sure my writing sounds different than all the other stuff out there. ― AI is never gonna catch me
Envious notes on a successful port.
Coping with the reality of generating infinite songs.
A brief introduction to ammil and some of the thinking behind it.
My minor superpower is setting up change detection on websites to get email notifications when they update. For the past three months that’s meant daily pings from Wikipedia’s “ Signs of AI Writing ” page. As an “advice” page, it’s where Wikipedia editors document the tells: the phrases, patterns and artifacts that suggest that AI was involved at some point with what they’re reading. Malicious or…
Even as L.L.M.s get better at producing fluid and plausibly human text, these persistent stylistic tics remain interestingly abrasive–in a single short answer, presented to you in a vacuum, A.I. text is as smooth as can be, but when you’re confronted with an overwhelming amount of it, the strangeness that’s been fine-tuned out really begins to re-assert itself. ― Will A.I. Writing Ever Be Good?
I also had a conversation with a writer friend Anna Gát, and she was saying that she feels like she writes in a more punk way because she wants to prove that her work is human. And what that means is she’s looser with the rules of grammar. She is more experimental with her prose. ― Jasmine Sun Podcast
In October I read Simon Willison’s account of bringing a 2001 Perl (and C) library to the web using Claude Code. Back in 2022 I wrote about a fantastic little Perl library called Graph::Easy that renders flowcharts as ASCII art. Inspired by Willison, I set about bringing Graph::Easy to the web. [1] Why Graph::Easy? Here’s an example ASCII diagram generated with Graph::Easy.…
Here’s the thing, we can’t distinguish effort. How do I know you put a little bit of effort in? ― Bots Ate My Resume
Let’s draw the line: docs generated entirely by AI should never ship to users. You can use AI judiciously to audit your docs for gaps, to spot inconsistencies, to generate first drafts that you’ll edit later. But the moment you let any LLM have the final word on what users will read, you’ve abandoned the basic contract of docs: that someone who understands the system has taken responsibility for…
I received a link from a co-worker with the accompanying note: I put together a plan for the project, take a look. Taking a quick scan through the linked document I’m pleased to see that there’s some substance to it. And look, there are tables and step-by-step instructions. At the bottom there are risks and potential mitigations. They have definitely put together a plan and it’s definitely in this…
AI has given people “absolute impunity to ignore reality […] AI is a direct attack on the way we verify information: AI both creates fake sources and obscures its actual sources.” ― AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
The best code is no code, programming still sucks and always will, and yet, I find myself still searching for the claw, the mark of mastery. Because that mark comes from people who want to reach other people directly. I want to see the claw, because if there is a claw, it means there is a living, breathing lion on the other side of the screen building the software that elevates us and binds us…
The only thing I wish is that they had a default tag or notice that was always produced— “Summarized by AutoPR” or just “#AutoPR” would be enough. People should know when their content is made by bots. ― Good Bot, Bad Bot
I’m going to take this assertion one step further and make a stronger claim: in fact, the only thing computers can write is poetry. I think this is true for all methods of algorithmic writing, but it’s especially true of text that is generated with language models. ― Language models can only write poetry