The interesting question about a tool is rarely whether to use it. It's what the tool changes about the work — what it makes easier, what it quietly substitutes, what it removes from sight.

This is a placeholder for the first entry under Machines. Future pieces in this category will examine generative AI in education and other instruments that increasingly mediate teaching. Not whether to use them, but how, why, and what they do to the people who use them and the people they're used on.

More soon.