Ai on Creativity Hacker

A Letter Arrives But The Post Office Is Closed

jeff@smithicus.com (Jefferson Smith) — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 13:55:33 +0000

Note From Col. Watson: Today’s session sprang, not from design or ambition, but from a small disaster: Professor Higgins had gone silent.

My benfactor returned to his Norwegian studies after tea this afternoon only to find his trusted tutor unresponsive, dead upon the floor, with an unanswered submission strewn across his chest. The Doctor felt this loss all the more keenly, as the Professor’s question had touched on an area of thin vocabulary, and he was eagerly awaiting his tutor’s pointed feedback.

Higgins

jeff@smithicus.com (Jefferson Smith) — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 12:57:48 +0000

Henry Higgins did not wait for Eliza Doolittle to ask for help. He simply kept correcting her until the problem was solved. This project takes the same approach.

Running on your own hardware, Higgins will interrupt you several times a day (over a messaging app of your choice) by sending a spontaneous conversational question in your target language. This is not some dry grammar exercise, but the kind of thing a curious and friendly stranger might actually ask at a dinner party. You respond when you can, and then Higgins will reply with a thumbs-up, or an improved version of your response, if one is necessary, and with errors clearly marked.

Tormenting AI For Fun and Profit

jeff@smithicus.com (Jefferson Smith) — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 13:30:00 +0000

I’ve come up with a fun way to practice written conversations in norsk—by taunting my AI practice partner.

If that sounds like fun, just step behind this curtain and I’ll show you the game.

Spinners of the Web

jeff@smithicus.com (Jefferson Smith) — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 09:54:09 +0000

The internet is full of advice on how to spot AI-generated images, videos, articles, newscasts, etc. But IMO, that’s entirely the wrong conversation.

Forget “How do we spot them?” We need to be talking about how society is going to function when the answer is: You can’t.