Author of What Machines Can't Replace. Engineer, writer, and systems thinker.
What Machines Can't Replace is coming in August 2026. Pre-orders are open, and I'm looking for ARC readers, blurbs, and a long-shot foreword. The post My book has a publish date (And I need your help.) appeared first on Anna McPhee .
How do you teach an AI the difference between 'That's powerful' and 'OMG SO BRAVE!!!'? The post Building Evals for an AI Memoir Writing Coach appeared first on Anna McPhee .
The future doesn’t belong to people who choose between nature and technology, it belongs to the ones who can hold both The post A Bridge Between Soil and Silicon appeared first on Anna McPhee .
AI without context gives you mystery replacement boyfriends. With Model Context Protocol, WordPress can finally tell AI what it actually can do... no more guessing based on vibes. The post AI WordPress at Enqueue appeared first on Anna McPhee .
I asked AI to remove my boyfriend from a photo - it gave me a different man and a jungle background. At Web Directions Dev Summit, I used this to show why AI needs context. Without it, you get statistical averages instead of solutions. The post Bridging Vibe Coding to Production with MCP appeared first on Anna McPhee .
Learning MCP shouldn't require choosing between 'What does MCP stand for?' and dense protocol documentation. The post A mostly-metaphoric MCP glossary appeared first on Anna McPhee .
Come on, indulge in your web nostalgia with me The post From Geocities to GPT appeared first on Anna McPhee .
Understanding complex AI concepts through some (hopefully) relatable metaphors. The post Three AI customisation concepts appeared first on Anna McPhee .
I attempted to get a professional headshot, but ended up with AI matchmaking. The post AI Replaced My Boyfriend: A Story About Context in Machine Learning appeared first on Anna McPhee .
I keep seeing posts defending junior devs as "future seniors," but this misses the point. If we're only hiring juniors to write code that AI can generate, we're not treating them right. The post Are we underestimating junior developers? appeared first on Anna McPhee .