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The AI Intern Illustrated TL;DR The metaphors we use for AI aren’t neutral — they reveal our professional insecurities and existential anxieties more than they describe the technology. The Patronisation Trap : Senior engineers call AI a “junior developer” or “intern” to preserve their status in the hierarchy. This creates a false capability ceiling and implies a human growth arc that doesn’t…
The Starting Point “Create a web-based game that leverages the accelerometer creatively.” That was the entire spec. No wireframes, no design doc, no feature list. I typed this into Claude Code running on my Redmi Note 9 - a 4-year-old Android phone with 4GB RAM. Three hours later, I had Inertia - a WebGL marble game with procedural terrain and dynamic camera. The interesting part isn’t the game…
Code, Curls, and King Illustration The Origin Story This blog wasn’t built during a caffeine-fueled hackathon. It was born in a much more domestic setting. I was in the middle of a very delicate operation: detangling my sleeping daughter’s hair. As any parent knows, this requires the precision of a bomb disposal expert. To keep my own mind occupied while my hands worked through the knots, I was…