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Future Text Lab

Future Text Lab

31 August '26

· 5 min · Season 8 Episode 5

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This session opened from a deliberately simple premise: AI is an external entity. When code is written with an AI in Xcode, the human is the designer or director, not the coder — and the same holds for knowledge work, where whatever the AI learns, writes, or researches goes into its mind, not ours. We are only augmented when something enters our own brain.

Around that premise the group worked through two linked questions: how do we keep our brains engaged rather than outsourcing the thinking, and what are the right components — tags, annotations, sources, ideas — for building shapes or…

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