Past Meets Pixel @ Substack
Christopher GerteisA forum for scholars, gamers, and educators.
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AI Is Not a Coding Tool. It’s a New Operating System.
Elite Game Developers
AI Is Not a Coding Tool. It’s a New Operating System.
We still talk about tools like Claude Code as if they’re code generators. The name says it: code. Generative AI for producing code. But after 6 months of working...
Snowflake Recorded Its Tech Writers for 8 Months, Then Laid Them Off
Snowflake is reportedly cutting around 400 jobs. The company had been screen-recording every documentation session for eight months, building training datasets from its senior technical writers’ workflows.
- Knowledge transfer: Senior wr...
Writing Against the Machine: Computational Authorship and Historical Writing
Abstract
Historians generate knowledge through the labour of composition – through the friction between interpretation and evidence that makes claims open to scrutiny and challenge. This essay argues that when composition is bypassed,...
AI as Prosthesis: The Politics of Governance and the Redistribution of Competence
This essay explores whether generative AI would be better understood as a cognitive and technical prosthesis. Rather than rehearse familiar debates about whether AI replaces human labor, I want to examine how it redistributes agency without...
The changing value of coding...
The great computer science exodus (and where students are going instead)
Connie Loizos
12:40 AM PST · February 15, 2026
Something strange happened at University of California campuses this fall. For the first time since the dot-com cra...
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I am an academic historian building a hub for scholars, gamers, and game developers interested in how digital experiences can engage with the complexity of history.
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