Dear Tech Editorial
Most of Dear Tech explains things: how a tool works, what a scam looks like, which settings to change tonight. Those articles try hard to stay neutral. This section doesn't.
Editorials are arguments. They're where I say what I actually think about where AI is heading, who's profiting from the noise, and which parts of the story the industry would rather you skipped. They're still sourced and still checkable — the difference is that a conclusion is being drawn, and it's signed.
If you disagree with one, that's a reasonable outcome. Tell me why — the good arguments end up shaping the next piece.
I lost a night to a single backtick in a config file. The out-of-the-box version would have taken four minutes and asked for one small payment I wasn't willing to make. On blast radius, the oopsie economy, and why self-hosting isn't safe — it's small.
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An assistant that doesn't know your life isn't an assistant — it's a timer with a personality. But knowing your life means holding it, and we've spent twenty years proving we do anonymization theater instead of security. On day runners, Citizen 11574, and what would have to be true.
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The data trade we quietly normalized is about to scale beyond anything we agreed to — and the loudest voices explaining it to us are salesmen. On car-lease letters, glorified search bars, and why the fragments assemble themselves.
Read EditorialEditorials publish when there's something worth arguing, not on a schedule. In the meantime, the reported side of Dear Tech — guides, safety alerts, and the AI Watch series — updates far more often.
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