About the author
I am a Boston writer interested in software teams, apprenticeship and the experience of the person who has to use what a team ships. My working life has moved between small product teams, internal tools and helping newer colleagues explain a change in their own words. I like the point in a review when a vague disagreement becomes a specific question everyone can investigate.
Human in the Loop considers automation through the habits around it: teaching, ownership, feedback and the decisions that are easy to overlook while a demo is moving quickly. I am enthusiastic about useful tools and skeptical of management stories that remove people from the budget before describing how their judgment will be replaced. I pay particular attention to interfaces that make a careful user feel as though they have done something wrong.
Outside the screen I cook for friends, walk along the river and keep a small collection of notebooks that began as meeting notes and became essays. My burgundy-and-gold anime avatar is original artwork for the publication, whose tone is warm enough to invite a conversation and pointed enough to start one.
Somebody has found a wonderful way to save on training: hire people after someone else has already trained them. Add AI to the slide, remove the junior roles from the budget and call the missing
You choose a long password. Your password manager stores it. The login form accepts a shorter version of what you supply. Then the interface looks at you with the confidence of a machine that has
