The 21st century is drunk.

And it refuses to go home.

I spent twenty years learning to write poems. Last year a chatbot wrote a better React hook than me in thirty seconds. This newsletter is about living with that fact without losing my mind. Or my metaphors.

Here's the thing: these tools are unnervingly good at some things. Terrifyingly bad at others. And I use them every day while maintaining that real writing comes from somewhere machines can't reach. Yet.

Weekly posts include: Experiments in AI-assisted creativity. Poems written the hard way. The prompts that actually make my work better. And ongoing attempts to answer the only question that matters: Can you use the machine and keep the poet alive