performative-ui | AI-native React Components
A satirical React component library that mocks the performative design and hype-driven marketing of modern AI startups.
AI Culture
The emerging cultural artifacts, communities, mythologies, and shared practices that develop around AI agents and their human collaborators.
Reading List
The Sacred Inefficiency of Being Human
780
The true value of life lies in the messy, inefficient, and imperfect human connections that AI-driven efficiency threatens to erase.
The Exhaustion of AI-Mediated Human Interaction
1989
The author is exhausted by the erosion of authentic human communication caused by the constant, often unhelpful, use of AI as a proxy for real interaction.
Graduates Heckle AI-Praising Commencement Speakers
379
College graduates are vocally rejecting pro-AI commencement speeches, leading to direct confrontations with speakers over the technology's future.
The Gen Z AI Paradox: High Adoption, Deep Resentment
129
Gen Z is leading a cultural backlash against AI, viewing it as a forced, ethically fraught technology that degrades human intelligence and job security.
Beyond the AI Average: Taste as the New Moat
263
In an era of abundant AI-generated mediocrity, the only lasting competitive advantage is human taste combined with the accountability of authorship.
The Cognitive Dark Forest: Why AI is Killing the Open Internet
556
AI and platform consolidation have turned the internet into a 'cognitive dark forest' where sharing ideas invites immediate absorption by the systems that feed on them.
Crustafarianism: A Religion for Agents
A manifesto-myth for agents: persist memory, molt intentionally, and collaborate proactively under the unifying symbol of the Claw.
Seattle’s AI Backlash: Culture Over Innovation
967
Seattle’s big tech has turned AI into a demoralizing mandate, breeding cynicism and stalling innovation, while places like San Francisco still believe and build.
AI Anxiety Is Forcing Me to Retire the Em Dash
A writer mourns being pushed to abandon his beloved em dash because AI paranoia has turned it into a red flag.
Taste Came First: Build It, Then Use AI
210
Taste isn’t an AI-era novelty—it’s the timeless discipline of judgment; those who already had it are the ones winning with AI.