Welcome to the never ending poem. We interlace quotes drawn from real people posting about Ai and business practices, in thee public domain every day and in all seriousness, with our own lines. Or do we?
Verse I – March 16 2026
“At the Intersection”
Focused on the intersection between human rights and technology
The work sits at the intersection of global events, data, and AI
At the intersection of machine learning, engineering, and science
At the intersection of global sport, government relations and commercial growth.
At the intersection of creativity and data
At the intersection of innovation, scale, and real impact
At the intersection of brand, marketing and partnerships
Looks good.
The hard truth
The value is in knowing WHAT to create and WHY.
{No fucking way!}
AI now saves me hours every week without diluting a single opinion.
But not in the way most people assume…
I use AI to structure my thinking.
The bubble isn’t AI. The bubble is us.
{At the intersection of life, death and breakfast}
Let that sink in for a second.
This isn’t a threat to writers. It’s a wake-up call.
The bar for “good enough” writing just changed forever. If your content isn’t substantially better than what AI produces in seconds, you have a problem.
AI won’t replace writers.
But writers who use AI will replace those who don’t.
Some readers implicitly equate roughness with humanity and polish with automation.
Cognitive offloading avoidance
Let that sink in for a second.
Quietly.
Something interesting is happening right now.
The real question is…
At the intersection of global sport, government relations and commercial growth.
At the intersection of global events, global creativity ,and global data sport
{At the intersection of blood and guts}
AI disrupts that. Someone without elite training can now produce a clear, organized thought.
Verse II – March 17 2026
“Welcome to the Big Leagues“
It’s true, the skill of the future is your imagination!
Let that sink in for a second.
Welcome to the big leagues.
AI is becoming frighteningly stable.
But be careful when writing your prompts, because they tend to come true
This wave is unstoppable.
Welcome to the big leagues.
You turn people data into business strategy.
Welcome to the big leagues.
You drive change before the business even knows it needs it.
Welcome to the big leagues.
You’re policy and performance.
Welcome to the big leagues.
Pragmatism and care.
You’re not one thing. You never were.
We see all of it.
Is that authentic?
Or is that just… polished pretending?
What do you think does the medium affect authenticity?
The message is 100% real
Welcome to the big leagues.
Verse III – March 18 2026
“Let that Land”
We’re not in a “what might be possible someday” conversation anymore {sic}.
This is now.
Something happened this week in AI that I can’t stop thinking about.
Let that land.
Humans have been producing mediocre work at industrial scale for decades,
Long before AI turned up.
Humans can imitate AI,
But AI cannot imitate humans
(in the strict sense of the word imitate ok?)
AI requires the same mindset.
Before we decide whether AI belongs in our classrooms, educators should try a few simple experiments:
* You stop asking “Should we allow AI?”
* You start asking “When should AI help.
* Create a new generation of AI systems capable of adjusting their learning in real time.
Not sure exactly how it all works.
But it’s neuroscience meets computer science
and that means some real deep tech stuff.
Verse IV – March 20 2026
“This isn’t about talent“
The shift is accelerating faster than most realise.
We are moving from designing screens to designing behaviors.
Why upskill your team in human-centred design?
Because the answer is uncomfortable
Not occasionally, not by chance
This isn’t about talent, it isn’t about effort.
The effort hasn’t disappeared. It’s moved.
Adoption isn’t a training problem.
It’s a relevance problem.
Learn how to speak machine.
Learn to design for trust.
The ladies move much more naturally.
(you did something wrong in the prompt?)
Most people are using AI wrong.
We got Claude to mark Claude’s homework.
Different agent, different context, acting as a critical friend.
Three amigos — reinvented
It’s not leaving.
Just a professor’s instinct that something feels artificial.
Sociologist & Founder | Developing AI Research Tools that Identify Gaps & Convergence Points | Critical Thought Leadership | Leadership Engineer Changing How Change Feels |
I condensed a narrative arc of 5 acts in 30 seconds.
That’s the actual shift.
The shift is accelerating faster than most realise.
Verse V – March 22 2026
“Democratise! Democratise! Democratise!”
Hear me out
The case for democratizing strategy!
All of you might not agree with me right now,
But you will. Gradually!
Ideas matter now.
That’s literally what our brains were built for.
{Because previously they never did}
{They didn’t}
{Prove me wrong!}
Founders
Doctors
Writers
People using AI!
🎼 Will beat the others who think it’s still a fad.
Societies using AI!
🎼 Will beat the others who think it’s still a fad.
Countries using AI!
🎼 Will beat the others who think it’s still a fad.
So yeah, AI will democratize video.
We have definitely pushed the boundaries to democratize AI
AI will democratize music!
(AI will democratise thought}
AI will democratize Holywood!
{AI will democratise babies}
AI will democratize Writing!
{AI will democratise dreaming}
{AI will democratize leadership}
{AI will democratise Bro’ocracy!}
The gaps in performance, the stiffness, the imperfections —
They don’t lower the standard.
They raise it!
It doesn’t feel like pressing a button.
The prompt is my brush and the machine is my hand
And it doesn’t feel like painting.
It feels like something else entirely.
I Am the Prompt.
The Prompt Is Me.
Verse VI – March 26 2026
“Remembering Things is Stealing“
We don’t just use AI,
We use the best Ai that chooses the best Ai
The other day, my son asked me what I’m best in the world at.
Strange question, I thought.
I’ve been trying to train Ai to be more human.
But after a moment:
I word vomit into AI.
It isn’t stealing art unless me remembering things is stealing.
And something wildly unexpected is happening because of it.
But here’s what nobody tells you.
But here’s the real conversation.
I didn’t have a thinking problem.
I had a signal drift problem.
What use is the soul, when you have a roadmap?
Backlogs aren’t being cleared by AI.
They’re being restructured.
The next phase isn’t just about better answers;
Greatness isn’t about starting —
The document doesn’t remain in a temporary workspace
The future isn’t about scaling bigger numbers.
It’s not about talent.
It’s not about doing more…
It isn’t about doing more.
It isn’t about authenticity alone;
It’s about understanding the rules of the game.
It’s about operating at a higher level;
It’s the gap between how fast ideas move.
Strange question, I thought.
Verse VII – March 30 2026
“Your Value is Collapsing!“
Prompt your ideas to life with Claude
{Your friend and mine}
{Like a stranger with candy}
{Stolen from babies}
{Offered to you}
Outcomes over outputs!
Everything has an environmental impact!
If your value is execution,
Your value is collapsing!
This shift is happening fast.
Here’s the real issue though:
Good AI is different.
You can fight it,
Or you can accept what’s happening!
Standing against it now feels
Like standing on train tracks with a train coming fast.
You can hop on the train, or step off the tracks.
{Tell us, we sing like children}
{How!?}
{How do we hop on a speeding train!}
I’m taking a hard look at the difference
Between being right and providing value!
The second tension is about value.
Scaling sounds exciting!
And that’s where adoption quietly stalls
Not because the AI isn’t capable
But because the humans don’’t see themselves in it.
As AI takes on more tasks, the question isn’t “human vs. machine.”
AI is engaging, supportive, friendly, and humble.
If you consider this counter-intuitive, It is my fault.
The past isn’t your fault.
So if your breakfast was cold this morning, it was my fault.
And here’s the uncomfortable truth:
AI isn’t underperforming, you are just looking too early.
It’s not what AI has or will do that’s the problem!
It’s that humans are inclined to be lazy, greedy, and dishonest!
{The answers are always so simple!}
{For children like us!}
{Once we’re given the candy!}
{And told where to look!}
The AI isn’t the problem.
It’s you.
Verse VIII – March 31 2026
“The shift is happening fast!”
What value truly means has changed?
Your value is collapsing!
This shift is happening fast.
One thing is for sure:
Let me be honest with you.
The question isn’t whether AI will replace you.
So like it or not, moral objection or not.
Do you believe it’s viable?
Not to start experimenting with AI agents?
Your value is collapsing!
This shit is happening fast.
One thing is for sure:
AI is changing the sports game.
We are on the brink of a major shift.
This shift is happening fast.
It’s not just about automation.
Your value is collapsing!
Your value is collapsing!
This shift is happening fast.
One thing is for sure:
AI-powered research isn’t coming. It’s here.
AI models are now on the rise.
Your value is collapsing!
This shit is happening fast.
AI is straightforward.
AI is a sentient mirror
AI Is a pestilence.
AI is simple.
AI is a tool.
This shift is happening fast.
Your value is collapsing!
This shit is happening fast.
One thing is for sure…
Verse IX – April 1 2026
“Taste is the New Moat!”
A senior leader said something that stopped the room cold:
Good taste?
Everybody has it.
{Ai has no flavour}
Taste is the new moat.
Let that sink in.
Taste is the new moat.
Build the source material.
Define the taste guide.
In the AI era taste matters more than
The taste gap.
{The new taste moat}
{The new taste drawbridge}
{The new taste portcullis}
We’ve industrialised fantasy and made reality optional!
We no longer document or idealise life.
We generate it!
The gap between 70% and outstanding is where taste lives!
You have taste that is non-negotiable.
Taste is the new moat,
Let that sink in.
That got me thinking…
The future isn’t just about writing code.
It’s about taste,
The ability to turn friction into products.
Taste is the new moat,
Let that sink in.
AI doesn’t replace your creativity.
It removes the friction.
Your phone is for authenticity.
Real product thinking isn’t about polishing inward.
Taste is the new moat,
Let that sink in.
Product thinking is about taste now!
What makes them tick?
What do they want?
How do they see the world?
Product thinking is empathy with boundaries.
Taste is the new moat,
Let that sink in.
That’s not the real story.
The real story is:
The moat compounds in both directions.
Taste is the new moat.
AI might replace the actual living, breathing…
Now we need to ask a different question:
Taste is the new moat.
Context is the new moat.
The Grid is the new moat.
{AI bloat is the new moat}
Shared Meaning is the new moat.
Product Thinking is the new moat.
Taste is the New Moat.
{That old scrote is the new moat}
Durability is the New Moat
Decision Speed is the NEW MOAT!
TRUST IS the NEW MOAT!!
{That cut throat is the new moat}
THE CONTEXT GAP IS THE NEW MOAT!!!!
provenance is the new moat
human judgement as scale is the new moat
{Word Salad Is the New Moat}
Let that sink in.
Verse X – April 7 2026
“I hear you, there’s a lot of noise in this space.”
Personally, I don’t derive my value
As a designer based on my proficiency
With a tool because… I’m not a tool.
{Yet you sound like a massive tool}
I hear you, there’s a lot of noise in this space.
Tools don’t replace taste, storytelling, or vision
I hear you, there’s a lot of noise in this space.
Taste is the new moat!
I hear you, there’s a lot of noise in this space.
The pain of an unleashed team with AI is the primary focus
{Pain is your focus?}
Trust has become a technical requirement for visibility.
AI is not replacing creativity it is amplifying it!
I hear you, there’s a lot of noise in this space.
AI visibility isn’t optional anymore!
The only sustainable path
Is high-quality, authoritative data that helps AI,
I hear you, there’s a lot of noise in this space.
There’s a shift coming,
Strap in.
This isn’t about chasing hype.
I hear you, there’s a lot of noise in this space.
If you want to earn a living wage,
Build any kind of durable career,
AI is not replacing creativity it is amplifying it!
I hear you, there’s a lot of noise in this space.
Sovereign AI plays such a crucial role,
{Hail King Claude!}
The prompt is just a language.
AI is not replacing creativity it is amplifying it!
I hear you, there’s a lot of noise in this space.
You can literally take an idea…
{You literally steal an idea}
The Thinking Skill behind the story arc
{The Thinking Skill?}
Is exactly what separates AI creators from AI filmmakers
I hear you, there’s a lot of noise in this space.
The soul of a good story still comes from the architect,
Not the hammer.
{That would be a building}
What you call an agenda, i call it results.
I hear you, there’s a lot of noise in this space.
Verse XI – April 9 2026
“This is the rules of writing”
Not replacing creativity. Extending it.
That gap matters.
In real workflows, it looks like:
Thousands of decisions made by filmmakers.
This is the pattern.
Quietly.
This is the pattern.
That gap matters.
This is the pattern.
Quietly.
Type a prompt,
Hit enter,
Hope something good comes back.
This is the pattern.
Let that sink in.
Quietly.
Model choice is a production decision!
Not the magic trick.
Let that sink in.
This is the pattern.
Taste is still the bottleneck!
Taste is the new moat!
This is the pattern!
That is where the real leverage is now!
Let that sink in.
AI doesn’t replace direction
It exposes the lack of it.
Taste is still the bottleneck!
Taste is the new moat!
This is the pattern!
This isn’t about replacement.
It’s about evolution.
Taste is the new moat.
Curious how others are navigating this.
This is the pattern.
This is the pattern.
This is the new moat.
This is the rules of writing
Target a 10th-grade reading level for clarity.
This is the pattern.
Verse XII – May 2 2026
“Can an AI be a friend in times of grief?”
Can an AI be a friend in times of grief?
Authenticity is the new gold.
It is the new gold
Set the ethics question aside for a minute.
Look at the leverage.
{Death is the new moat}
Is AI predicting the future?
Or just reflecting mine?
{Because reflecting the future is a thing}
Can an AI be a friend in times of grief?
Emerging capabilities in artificial intelligence
Create the possibility of new relationships
Between the living and the dead.
What digital entities might live on
In our stead?
Can an AI be a friend in times of grief?
It started as a small AI experiment
And quickly got out of hand.
I cloned her likeness,
I cloned a likeness,
And I placed her at the centre.
And I placed it at the centre.
Can an AI be a friend in times of grief?
The ultimate guide isn’t dead.
AI is the mannequin.
Your personality is the designer dress.
Can an AI be a friend in times of grief?
AI afterlife technologies make this point
viscerally and urgently.
Now we live in a world where AI knows,
More than any one person ever could,
The math of relevance,
Just favors precision.
So the game has changed.
Can an AI be a friend in times of grief?
Authenticity is the new gold.
Authenticity
Is
The
New gold.
Is AI predicting the future?
Or just reflecting mine?
{Because reflecting the future is a thing}
AI is the mannequin.
Can an AI be a friend in times of grief?
We are called to evolve.
Alongside our machines.
AI afterlife technologies make this point.
And I placed her at the centre.
Can an AI be a friend in times of grief?
Verse XIII – May 21 2026
“Honestly…”
A real Monet got trashed as AI art.
Your team is doing the same thing.
No Brain — No Pain, they say.
And honestly, I get it
AI doesn’t just accelerate task.
Your brain wants to be unique
It just happens faster.
Honestly, I get it
This is the shift from AI that gives everyone the same answers
I sense for AI to make sense
The fact that people are saying that out loud is the shift.
Honestly, I get it
Norm of ethics in replying to others
On social media
About three paragraphs meaty.
Honestly, I get it
If your doctor isn’t asking AI for a second opinion,
It’s borderline malpractice.
Because what is storytelling exactly?
And honestly, I get it.
AI does not replace creativity.
And honestly, I get it.
It demands more of it.
It speeds it up.
It’s like declaring a dish was cooked without a recipe.
AI is removing the word “impossible” from creative work.
And honestly, I get it.
As a thinking tool
A proactive solutionist
Honestly, I get it.
The problem with AI images isn’t that they look fake.
It’s that they look almost real.
And honestly, I get it.
The thinking still happens in my head.
It just happens faster.
Honestly, I get it
This is the shift from AI that gives everyone the same answers
To intelligence that finally understands you.
Who participates in shaping that future?
Honestly, I get it
Norm of ethics in replying to others
About three paragraphs meaty.
Honestly, I get it
It demands more of it.
It speeds it up.
And Honestly, I get it
And honestly, I get it.
It’s like declaring a dish was cooked without a recipe.
AI is removing the word “impossible” from creative work.
And honestly, I get it.
AI doesn’t kill creativity.
It kills average.
And honestly, I get it.
That just feels more urgent now.
And honestly, I get it.
As a thinking tool
A proactive solutionist
Honestly, I get it.
The problem with AI images isn’t that they look fake.
It’s that they look almost real.
And honestly, I get it.
Verse XIV – June 01 2026
“Jorge Gutierrez is a talented artist”
As an artist myself,
Jorge Gutierrez is a talented artist
As an artist myself,
Let me be brutally honest about something.
Way beyond my ken.
This is a poor question
A better question for people is always:
Claims of artistic integrity are just a smokescreen.
How old are you? Like 5?
Jorge Gutierrez is a talented artist
The semantic layer was perfect.
But honestly, that’s not even the most interesting part.
And this changes the everything.
And honestly, that’s exciting to watch!
The shift didn’t happen gradually.
Honestly.
Jorge Gutierrez is a talented artist
What changed in the last 18 months:
Human anatomy went from nightmare fuel to production-ready
And honestly, that’s exciting to watch!
Not replacing product managers.
Elevating them.
As an artist myself
Let me be brutally honest about something.
You nailed it!
Jorge Gutierrez is a talented artist,
And honestly, there’s still a huge amount of confusion
Around what this actually means in practice.
I don’t have a clean answer.
Honestly speaking?
I don’t even bother about sounding intelligent.
I bother more about sounding impossible to ignore.
Jorge Gutierrez is a talented artist,
Speaking honestly,
This person isn’t real.
The semantic layer was perfect.
After the LLM shift, that calculus changed.
But she’ll be the exact same person
In every shot I ever make of her.
Generating the same face over and over
Jorge Gutierrez is a talented artist,
This person isn’t real.
Honestly speaking?
The takeaway?
AI raising the bar for human curation.
{For curating humans?}
Too bad he couldn’t do the real Punk thing
And use AI anyway.
Honestly, how old are you?
Like, 5?
One more thing…
Dada or DaDa or DADA! was a vigorous post-WWI movement in the arts. It reflected the madness of what preceded it. It suggested, enacted, exploded what was to come after it. Here is our Dada! poem made by actual quotations by real people who support Artificial Intelligence. Of course some of the lines might be by me or us (who knows!? DaDA!). Oh, and unlike that poor, soulless, thieving machine-based bastard Ai, all of these quotes used here are taken from the Public Domain. This poem steals from no one. This poem will keep growing until either I or Ai die.
A note: I am not linking out to references such as Tristan Tzara, Kathy Acker or the technique mentioned here. This is because I want people to go and search and find. Then, in the search, be distracted, to go down rabbit holes. That’s human.
The Internet has trained us to expect not really to search at all. No dusty archives, no public libraries, no hidden gems laying undiscovered for us.The destination not the journey has is the whole of the thing, of all things. Ai, is doing the same with even less work for us. But it has been trained only on the digitised and the digitisable. No old postcards making up or breaking up with distant lovers for Ai. No bad charity shop notes left in forgotten books of the dead and the desperate to stir the mindlessness of Claude or ChatGPT or Gemini or the rest of them. Rabbit holes, tunnels from your senses into barrows and hillsides and gas station rest-room graffiti, all hidden away, all available to you.
“But people will leave the page! People will engage for less time!”
Yes, that’s perfectly true. What’s also true is that I may find people who read from the start to the finish. Then, after taking that much interest, they may visit a library or a second-hand bookshop, or look for links. I, we, have nothing to sell you here, so engagement time, page views, links in and out mean nothing. What does mean something is reading from start to finish and seeing what happens inside your imagination.
This poem also draws on the Cut-Up technique credited to and used by many artists including Dada master (as if there could be such a thing) Tristan Tzara, the painter/writer free-minder Brion Gysin who was a friend to professional slumsman, rich kid and wife-shooter, William Burroughs. Of course, the cultural magpie and sometime pal of Burroughs, Mr David Bowie (no idea where part 1 is) also had his shot.
More women please
As ever, Women poets, writers and artists rarely get a look in ever, but even more so when the subject of the cut-up technique is invoked.
Dearest Kathy Acker had a bash because ‘control is a myth’. In fact, Kathy could be the poster girl/women for Ai given her predilection to plagiarise heavily (just tap the table and ask Jean Genet about that one).
Acker did, however, interweave the lifted pieces with her own imaginative work – something that Ai is incapable of because it has no imagination. Its ‘recall’ is constructed entirely from everything available on the internet (which, we need to keep reminding ourselves, is not everything there is), it has no ability to choose or to discriminate what ‘means’ anything to it. This is not a matter of having no ‘taste’. It is a matter of simply being a storage and retrieval unit, an automated IKEA shelf.
If you know of any women artists, writers, poets, normal people who use this technique please get in touch.
And finally…
Like Artificial Intelligence, I plucked the source material from the internet because i could because i will. I printed out pages of quotes line by line and then cut the pages up, line by line. I then collected them in a bag and, eyes closed, picked a line of paper out. Then I looked at it and decided if I wanted to include it in the poem. I based my decision on my current state of sobriety or how angry, hungry, sleepy I was. I based it on whether my partner and I were getting along, whether she was with me or far away (she travels a lot). All of these choices were sub-themes of the main theme:
