AI is always right if you don't care (or don't know)
The less I've thought about something, the easier it is for AI to give me what I "want"
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I'm Ryan, I'm a professor, and sometimes I write about things I'm thinking about or working on. I don't know anything, and my opinions are subject to change.
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My AI Rules
A non-exhaustive list of principles I aim to follow with my use of AI: Don't Slop Grenade . With AI it's trivial to generate multiple (even hundreds) pages of content that support literally any idea. Doing so is roughly the equivalent of a gish gallop , where
Forklift at the gym
The idea that using AI for educational tasks is like taking a forklift to the gym has been around for at least a couple years. AI art has been compared to wanting congratulations for driving a marathon. I think especially in an educational setting it's important for students
No effort (or connection) is wasted
We're each a collection of weirdnesses we've accumulated throughout our lives. Embrace it.
Book Review: The Measure
This was Tricia's book club book this month, and she thought I'd like it. I did.
The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so
To form a more perfect Union
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States
In Congress, July 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which
World Cup Tracker
I've been working on a project with a friend involving a 128x64 LED Matrix display (more on that another time), but the display part of it isn't quite ready yet, so I decided to put that display to use for the World cup season. Introducing the
Ryan's Reads: AI Sycophancy
Boy... I knew AI being sycophantic was a problem, but it hadn't really occurred to me how much of a problem it could be until I read a couple papers I saw recommended on LinkedIn today. This all feeds into what will be discovered only in the long
What I'm reading: AI's effects on education
I'm down a rabbit hole at the moment, exploring what role AI should have in higher education. The fun thing is that, like EdTech , we have to figure out what to do with this technology now, but we probably won't know the results of our decisions
Don't use Claude Code on your computer
Because it's even better to use it on a different computer.
I have a lot of drafts
I have a lot of drafts. I don't know what to do with them.
Stuff I've done (2026 Apr 4)
When I'm working on research, sometimes I can go long stretches without feeling like I've really accomplished anything. But in between working on papers, I do occasionally get stuff done. I'm always working on a million things, but these ones got done done in
Things I'm reading: AI Risk Edition (13 Feb 26)
I've been going down some AI-related rabbit holes recently, for coding, for research, and for some personal projects. It seems like every time I start to get some confidence when using AI, I find all sorts of new reasons not to trust it. I've run