Gas Town and Bullet Hell

The temporal mismatch is real: Claude can produce a 3,000-word draft in seconds, and then you spend twenty minutes reading it with the nagging sense that you should be going faster, that you’re the bottleneck, that the machine is waiting.

Rooney’s moralisation of the clock is right there in the room with you.

Why aren’t you keeping up?

Gas Town and Bullet Hell

Warning: a collection of half-formed thoughts about time, screens, AI agents, and a surprisingly relevant Japanese arcade genre. This started with a phrase in Azeem Azhar’s piece about his AI…

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