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Learning With AI Feels Different

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...

Why Designers Should Try to Break AI Models

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...

From prompts to geometry: Using Claude with Rhino3D

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...

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