What AI Cannot Do
The work that doesn’t compress.
Short essays on the human work AI tools quietly need us to keep doing. Taste, care, originality, context. The things that get harder to spot exactly when they become more valuable.
Most of the rest of this site is about what AI can do, and how to choose the tools that do it well. This section is the other half — the part that doesn’t fit in a directory and isn’t for sale. If a tool is going to leverage you, it helps to know what you’re bringing that the tool can’t.
The essays
- 01
Care
The kind of attention that has to come from a body.
4 min read
- 02
Context
Reading the room, the unsaid, the politics under the meeting.
4 min read
- 03
Originality
Making the thing that didn't exist — the cost of refusing the average.
5 min read
- 04
Taste
The thing that knows when nothing is wrong but it isn't right.
4 min read