Writing
Research, reflections, and experiments at the intersection of AI, creative technology, and vibe-coding. Some posts include early drafts of work in progress.
I Watched AI Come for the Artists. Then I Saw It Coming for Me. So I Leaned In.
Three years of bookmarking the AI debate — from artists losing work to vibe coding taking off — and what it's like to benefit from the same tools that displaced others.
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Study It But Don't Use It: The AI Policy Gap Nobody's Talking About
UK universities fund AI doctoral researchers but offer no guidance on using AI in their own work. Mapping the policy landscape and arguing for transparency over prohibition.
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The Friday Deadline: What the Anthropic-Pentagon Standoff Means for All of Us
The US government threatened criminal prosecution against an AI company for maintaining safety guardrails. What this means for AI sovereignty, open source, and democratic resilience.
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Everything I Vibe-Coded This Year
A catalogue of 50+ projects built through conversational AI development, from laughter detection games to fantasy sports engines to AR business cards.
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What's Next: Building Tools That Actually Help
Upcoming participant studies and intervention tools designed to make AI-assisted development safer and more reflective. Part 4 of PhD research.
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The Six Ways Vibe-Coding Breaks
Six failure modes identified through practice-based research and the Minimum Viable Literacy framework for non-technical creatives. Part 3 of PhD research.
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What Happens When You Let AI Write All Your Code
Building an educational AI chatbot and a full-stack arts platform through conversational AI development. The 80:20 pattern emerges. Part 2 of PhD research.
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Why I Started a PhD About Talking to AI
Exploring what non-technical creative people need to know to use AI coding tools well. Part 1 of a series on PhD research into vibe-coding.
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A Day of Generative AI at Royal Holloway
Teaching multimedia students at Royal Holloway about generative AI for creative storytelling, covering Midjourney, NeRFs, motion capture, and video generation.
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The Freedom of GPT-4: Supercharging Creativity and Coding
How GPT-4 transformed the creative process for a generalist technologist, shipping more projects in months than the previous two years combined.
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VR, Music, and the Joy of A Little Chaos
Building Alternative Stages, a WebVR gig platform with LIDAR-scanned Brighton venues, and what a gaming guild's chaotic virtual room taught me about online spaces.
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