How to restore East Asian "quiet happiness" in the age of AI and capitalism

On happiness: between capital and silence

The "physicality" and "taste" that engineers have lost as a result of AI's increased production.

Why engineering has become boring.

On the sense of "usefulness" that has been lost in the transition from blue-collar to white-collar work

The illusion of productivity

Humanity is not an additional feature, but the root of the design.

Putting people back in the code

The story of how just basking in the sun in the age of AI can make your code human again.

Sunbathing recommendations

On not being swallowed by the wave of technology and choosing to evolve with your breath

Choosing not to overreact to the evolution of AI.

Hospitality may just have evolved into optimisation.

Service overload and the AI trap.

Technology that was supposed to be a game has become a religion of numbers.

Where did start-ups go wrong?

What a 5% improvement in accuracy might produce is not happiness but competition.

Fate of AI products

That the constraints are not on the outside, but in the head.

Know that thou canst fly.

On the fear and meaning of reclaiming the human body in the age of AI

Fear of becoming an Essential Worker.

When the words of successful people sounded like a game, I knew something was over.

No more start-ups to earn money.

Stories of people from different cultures who share the same kindness.

Engineers from around the world

The more recursive AI becomes, the less humans feel it.

Engineers without bodies

On enduring the work of cutting people off behind the scenes of growth

Engineering managers who lose their minds.

If you're tired of being virtual, try spending time with the bugs for once.

Embodiment and the countryside

Discomfort in a society where entrepreneurial culture is a myth

The illusion of a start-up

There is a sky that can only be seen in purposeless time.

Purposeless parks

On human respiration outside of production.

lying-down power

Unmoving ladybird

On the human strength that AI cannot take away

Grandpa's strength.

Where is human happiness as AI erases unevenness in production?

The engineering profession

What temperature remains in a profession that has lost its handiwork?

Engineers as McJobs.

Middle-aged people with a beautiful face pack, unexpectedly suffer a water-related accident.

being soaked to the skin with a wet, soggy case file

A story about how we seem to be fixing the outside, but we are actually maintaining the inside.

Facial packs Middle-aged engineers

Stories about how the evolution of working methods is only increasing the speed of turnover before we know it.