Venkatesh Rao

AI is enabling a new intellectual culture centered on rural domesticity, which author Venkatesh Rao calls 'cognitive farmsteading' — the use of AI automation to run complex intellectual operations fro…

Alberto argues that AI can extend human grasp beyond reach, enabling dilettantes to realize ambitions that previously required full-stack genius. By using AI as a prosthetic, individuals can become bo…

Venkatesh Rao expands on his 2023 essay 'A Camera, Not an Engine', arguing that generative AI is primarily an instrument for seeing in latent space rather than a utilitarian engine. He introduces Sree…