Josh Collinsworth

It's worth asking whether LLMs are actually making us more productive at all-and if so, what we might be sacrificing in return.

Yesterday, even though my son is barely seven years old, toxic masculinity permeated his life and, perhaps permanently and irreparably, stole a small piece of his joy.

My Nüborn Baby arrived in October, and now that I've had a few months to get used to it, I thought I'd write up a review, in case you were thinking of getting one for yourself.

A look back on 2025, and all the weird, wonderful things that happened in my year.

I think I have an idea why we're so extremely divided on AI: it's because we have an intuitive sense of who it stands to benefit, and who stands to pay the costs. I think whether you see reason for optimism has a lot to do with which group you see yoursel

Is a person who prompts an LLM to generate a website a web developer? And if not, what is the difference, and why does that matter so much?

One of life's greatest simple pleasures is creating something just for yourself.

A running list of uncommon, strange, and/or archaic words embedded in common idioms, to help you type them correctly next time you use them.

Things I watched, read, played, got into, enjoyed, or did and would do again, in 2024.

Life in America has long felt like a game played between adults and children; a game where one side knows the rules and is dedicated to keeping them, and the other is merely making up ad-hoc rules from moment to moment, for no reason but to help them win.