About

I’m a middle-aged bloke living in Melbourne’s outer southeast. DevOps background, development adjacent, flat white dependent. Overthinking is also a hobby.

I started this blog because I think better when I write, and because the world is moving fast enough that keeping quiet felt like a waste. I’m genuinely fascinated by new technologies like AI. The kind of fascination that ends with reading primary sources at 11pm on a work night. But I’m also not naive about what it costs us, environmentally and otherwise. We may be building something extraordinary and something catastrophic at the same time, which is very on brand for our species.

I have opinions about how society should work. They tend to involve everyone getting a fair go, which is apparently a political position now. I try to hold those opinions loosely and update them when the evidence warrants it. This works better in theory than in practice.

I’m at an age where I should probably have more answers. Mostly I just have better questions and a longer reading list.

– Haiku Hughesy