by linustan | Sep 20, 2025 | Academia, AI Futures, Behaviours, teaching, Teaching and learning, Tools
TL;DR: Learning with AI isn’t about shortcuts, but about cultivating awareness, challenging assumptions, and reframing what effort really looks like. How we used to learn There were acronyms I used to invent in school. They weren’t clever, but they helped ideas...
by linustan | Sep 13, 2025 | AI Ethics, Behaviours, Craft, Tools
TL;DR: AI tools often respond to irrelevant details in unpredictable ways. For designers, these quirks reveal how prompting works beneath the surface and why learning to break the AI model on purpose can build deeper creative confidence and control. The quiet...
by linustan | Aug 18, 2025 | Behaviours, Culture, Talent
TL;DR: In academia, AI use is often kept quiet, likely to preserve intellectual credibility. This post explores the rise of stealth AI-ing and the quiet politics of competence that keep AI use hidden. When we talk about AI adoption in education, the...
by linustan | Apr 18, 2025 | AI Practice, Behaviours
TL;DR: In 2025, GenAI is no longer an experiment, it’s a quiet infrastructure. It’s saving time, shaping skills, and shifting what counts as creative and meaningful work. Happy Good Friday! When generative AI burst onto the scene in 2022/23, the energy was...
by linustan | Apr 10, 2025 | AI Practice, design, Tools
TL;DR: I used Claude to model a cabin in Rhino3D using only a photo and a prompt and it somewhat worked. This experiment revealed a shift: from learning complex software to mastering clear, descriptive language. In an AI-driven design future, our words may become our...
