AI strategy for 2026: manton.org
@manton Those potential features sound like a sane approach for those who aren’t philosophically opposed to AI. Looking forward to seeing how Micro.Blog eveolves in 2026.
@manton well, it sounds great Manton. They are balanced in a way that could bring more of AI to help, without making it excessive. The day I let the computer write for me is the day I stop writing.
@manton I think most of the gang here trusts your judgment on such things. Your approach thus far as been well thought out and, as expected, community focused.
AI demands such cautious optimism. Unfortunately, too many in our circles insist on living on either end of the spectrum of diving in head first with zero care for the consequences, or sticking one’s head in the sand and hoping it goes away.
@manton There is AI and there is generative AI, a subset. A non-generative AI approach to checking spelling and grammar has matured considerably - this is something that I look forward to using - not some generative AI models that, by design, bull shits, pardon the term.
I admit that using vision transformers to describe photos for Alt Text generation is also a welcome addition, if it is an option for those times we are too lazy to do it ourselves.
@manton best product decisions I’ve ever made is to make less and fewer, in general. Restraint is the hallmark of good taste!
@manton I am a big fan of the RSS feed for LongForm .. got me to wondering how you automatically make that feed. If just ‘does it have a title’ .. to my mind won’t work well … I have a lot of my posts with titles on my blog that I would not want to include in my ‘long read’ feed because they are just letterbox Reviews that come in automatically with a title. Nor do I want to include a title feed that has posts with a title .. and one line in the body .. etc etc .. have you had any thoughts as to how you are going to manage it?
for example .. on my list I have a new category that I have been thinking about implementing … ‘one liners’ (let’s call it the UnLongRead) … still not cracked what I mean exactly … that I can then codify to run a script to add the category. It’s hard.
@JohnPhilpin To have the most control, you may need to create a category just for long-form posts, since each category has its own feed. I have one called Essays, although I don’t really curate it right now.
@manton yes .. I have a similar category .. originally created based on ‘title/no title’ … the curation is the problem —- new stuff is fine .. it’s the archive 😣 and that’s what got me to thinking how might you manage the aggregation?