Thoughts
Press a key on a manual typewriter and a dozen steel parts fire in sequence. This is an interactive dissection: every mechanism is a 3D model you can drag, scrub, and type on, down to the escapement that meters the carriage one space at a time.
After two years on Chatbot Arena and RouteLLM, I keep relearning that 'best on average' is the wrong question for the work I am actually trying to do. The benchmark that matters is the one I write down before the result has a chance to persuade me.
近朱者赤, 近墨者黑. Near vermillion one becomes red, near ink one becomes black. The usual reading makes influence sound moral and one-directional. The ink is stranger than that.
For six hundred years, every time execution got cheaper, taste got more important. The printing press invented editors. The camera liberated painters. AI is the latest chapter — and maybe the last one where humans hold the edge.
A deep technical and legal investigation into how a voice dictation app silently intercepted every keystroke, suppressed 145 spacebar presses, and tracked every app and URL I visited.