Anne Gillaspie and I trace a line from enshittified software and the video game industry’s identity crisis to the choices founders make when they build with AI. We talk about why “good-ish” systems can be more dangerous than obviously bad ones, what the real energy math looks like, and why restraint may be one of the most useful product decisions available to us.
The conversation also gets into the theater-training ideas behind SkillSaige’s AI boundaries, running a lean remote-first company, performative honesty, and what it means to build technology that knows its own limits.
This is the full conversation behind Computerized Screaming Void of the Collective Human Subconscious and a practical companion to What if LLMs Are Something Else Entirely?.