S1E261 - The Feed & The Thread - September 29, 2026

We explore whether AI’s speed is liberating us for strategy or simply triggering a Jevons Paradox that demands more output, drawing on Daniel Ruston’s warning about the shift from maker to orchestrator and Caitlin Steele’s call for building “defensible space” against constant crises. By examining community debates on original craft versus automation and the tension between thematic aesthetics and functional readability, we question what truly matters when execution becomes nearly instant.

From The Feed

I Tested Opus 5.5 at Every Effort Level for Animation Design (Nick Babich) — Higher effort settings yield nuanced animations but require care...