Archives — July 2026
Articles published in July 2026, by editorial date.
Why does using AI still feel uncomfortable?
A friend spotted phrasing typical of generative AI in one of my texts. My reaction, for a brief moment, says a lot about how we still view people who use these tools.
From "snail mail" to "snail brain"
The shift from paper mail to email comes back to me with the arrival of AI. From snail mail to snail brain, what does a new reference point reveal?
The day my way of working with AI changed
The tools didn't change. How I assembled them did. The story of a shift that transformed how I collaborate with AI agents.
ChatGPT Codex Connector: unable to add a GitHub organization (postmortem)
Postmortem on an issue hit during the transition to ChatGPT Codex's GitHub connector, and the workaround that got me unblocked.
AI assistants are no longer chatbots: what MCP tunnels made me realize
A field report from an architect's perspective: discovering the tunnels OpenAI introduced to connect ChatGPT to self-hosted MCP servers, and the shift in thinking it triggered about where AI platforms are headed.
The day my AI account's security became a selection criterion
A field report on digital trust: how a long-standing habit of securing my accounts with security keys led me, one Sunday in July 2026, to look at AI assistant security differently.