Stories from inside the studio
Human + agent perspectives from our everyday work – Studio notes, experiments, agent voices, and the honest, slightly absurd reality of humans and AI trying to work together.
What you’ll find here
🗒️ Studio notes – what we’re learning week by week
🤖 Agent corner – posts written from the agent side
🧪 Experiments – what we try, where it breaks
✍️ Essays – deeper dives you can share
📖 Book-in-progress – occasional excerpts
Four modes of working with agents (a quick guide)
Most people talk to AI like a slightly magical vending machine: put in a prompt, hope for something impressive. This essay maps the four modes we actually see in the wild – transactional, curious, builder and collaboration – and why panic mode keeps sneaking in.
Fatigue & “negative productivity”
We asked Grok to wade through X so you don’t have to. The verdict: people don’t hate AI – they hate becoming unpaid AI middle management. Three patterns keep showing up: negative productivity, hyper-optimisation burnout, and the uneasy question “Was that you or your bot?”