Casey P. O'Neill

Made some music so you can clear your head and relax.

AI responses quickly making this platform unusable When friction drops to zero, public spaces become unusable. People with agency, with means, and with connections retreat to private spaces Expect to see this everywhere as an outcome of AI

My most human sentence. 🫠

@venturetwins Would love to check this out.

Truly blown away by a new AI image model launching this week ✨ Finally, you can generate photos that actually look like you! It's so much better than everything I've tried - from LoRAs to NB Pro. Onboarding some early testers. DM or comment if you want access 👀

You’re 10 years old and in bed with the TV on and the lights out. Back to back episodes of TAXI are about to air. Life is good.

I took the AI vs. Human writing quiz at the NYT. I don't think it's a great gauge of the question.. For one thing, people are probably trying to guess which is human, rather than answer honestly. But also I don't think single paragraphs are a good measure of the question.

This test was more difficult than I thought it would be and I think I know why. I can pinpoint long form AI content written as personal essays fast; they all read similar. Fiction and poetry written by AI is not in my wheelhouse. Also, Cormac McCarthy “clunky”?

Also may explain why Jeff Green recently loaded up on $148mm worth of TTD shares.

my mom made it a point when i was growing up to immerse me in the arts, knowing i was going to be a third gen engineer. broadway shows, art history, travel often. museums, learn the greats, reading of any kind (i literally would inhale archie comics growing up) MIT also understood the importance of balancing engineering and humanities. you had to take a minimum number of HASS (humanities, arts, social sciences) credits, which equated out to basically be 1 class a semester. it forced you to be outside of your engineering specialty. to succeed in life you have to be well rounded. you need to be able to have conversations with everyone, you need to be able to appreciate things outside of your captialism. taste isnt just what looks good together - its understanding social scenarios, knowing how to exist in different spaces, and being able to connect with anyone. engineering, founding, and business cannot exist without the arts. the arts are what give you taste.

It makes me happy to read @geekwire, a tech news site, write about Sub Pop. geekwire.com/2026/sub-pop-r…

Yeah. Because the label didn’t clear the sample use. Whether he did or didn’t play the instruments doesn’t matter; music ownership (publishing, masters) doesn’t work that way.

Word people aren’t surviving AI writes word person writing countless posts filled with words each day.

Paul Graham responding to made up stories about himself is fascinating to watch. It’s gotta be weird to read made up fictions about yourself for internet clout.

I open Twitter/X and the first post I see is some AI slop article about Sam Altman buying OpenClaw to automate 30% of all jobs by some date and the first comment is an AI slop rebuttal. Dead internet theory in real time. I hope we aren’t this cooked folks.

@janthonylong I’ve been calling people out on LinkedIn all the time. It’s horrible over there. Wannabe thought leaders turning into AI loss leaders. Whatever it takes for engagement is a bad mantra.

I mean this. Seriously. This is getting easier and easier to spot. Carve out your own style. Better to be a little wordy or a little rambling than to outsource your prose to a mathematical formula.

@dave_stickland Interesting. I haven't tried this tool out yet. Why do you like using it? The agents and skills aspect?

I wrote an article mocking that AI article and most people thought it was another AI article. Keeping it live on Substack though.

There is a real panic about AI taking jobs. It’s exaggerated. Mostly cause it’s taking tech/programmer jobs. And everyone is assuming that what it does to programming it will do to every other job. Coding is the perfect use case for the LLM based AI. Bounded set. Clear and explicit rules. In most of the rest of the economy, when LLM can be used, it requires heavy human intervention. In my experience it increases productivity moderately for highly skilled/knowledgeable individuals but doesn’t eliminate jobs.

@michaelmiraflor I’m leaning towards the latter. I use AI everyday and still thought the peace was fear-bait trying to soft sell $20 subs.

Either everyone on Twitter is right about the future of AI, or we’re observing a fantastic mass psychosis event.

The timeline is covered with the same vague AI article. I read it yesterday. I use AI a lot. It may disrupt a lot of jobs and industries. The argument is built around fear and filled with assumptions of ceteris paribus. And then tries to sell $20 subs. Hive mind at work here.

Oh man. Dr Dre and company must have gotten some BIG CHECKS to sync ~10 seconds of “what’s the difference” in those Claude ads.