I don’t need another app to “delight” me. I need the truth with a towel around it. VibeAxis exists to make the algorithm nervous: we break things in daylight, name the tradeoffs, and ship what survives. No utopias. No doom cosplay. Just receipts and sharp objects.
Welcome to the AI Mess: We’re Here to Poke It with a Stick
Receipt: Wednesday, 2:17 a.m.—doomscroll, cold fries, three “gentle nudges.” That’s the gap we map: systems that predict your next move and call it help.
What the hell is happening here?
Here’s what you’re in for:
No hype, no fluff—we don’t worship the algorithm.
Deep dives into how AI messes with your job (AI in Careers), your mind (AI & Productivity), your city (AI in Real Life), and your rights (AI Ethics).
Satire when it helps. Serious truth when it matters. If a claim can’t survive sunlight, it doesn’t ship.
If you’re new, start here: AI Basics. If you want the teardown energy, head to Hold My Algorithm. Watching the horizon? AI Trends and Future of AI have receipts.
Pillars we actually care about
→ AI & creativity: where machines nail “average” and why your weird wins (Creative AI).
→ Surveillance capitalism: your life, itemized and auctioned (AI Ethics).
→ Behavior-manipulating UX: design that edits your choices (AI in Real Life).
→ Tools you can use (and some you shouldn’t): practical, not performative (AI Tools).
If you’re here to panic, praise, or poke holes—good. You’re our people.
Our Bias Is Human
We judge every shiny thing by what it does to time, attention, and consent. If a feature saves ten minutes but steals your agency all week, it’s a bad trade. We’ll cover the real-life fallout—how tools shape moods, choices, and cities—over in AI in Real Life and call the ethics by their real names in AI Ethics. Efficiency is cute. Dignity scales.
Me: Does this save time or steal choices?
Skeptic: Depends who set the timer.
Me: Exactly. We call the trade, then name who profits.
How We Work (and Why You’ll Stay)
We test the thing, break the thing, and only publish what survives. When a tool actually helps, it lands in AI Tools. When it needs a public teardown, it goes to Hold My Algorithm. When the machine nails “average,” we show you how to beat it in Creative AI. If we’re wrong, we say so out loud and fix it. If it blends, it ends.
Let’s break it down
This is the starting line. We’ll dissect the mess AI is making in your life and your work, and we’ll show you where to push back. AI won’t steal everything—only the parts you leave unattended. The rest? That’s where we play.
You don’t need a new belief system; you need levers. We hand you knobs to turn today—settings to kill, defaults to flip, questions to ask—so you keep the speed without losing your self.
What we promise
Clarity over cosplay. If a claim can’t survive sunlight, it doesn’t ship. We pick fights with process, not people, and we bring receipts—benchmarks, lived specifics, and the one ugly tradeoff everyone else hides. You’ll leave each piece with a knob to turn today, not a TED Talk hangover.
What we refuse
We don’t do hype parades or doom cosplay. No “innovation theater,” no “gentle nudge” dark patterns dressed as UX.
The house line
Unmistakable or unpublishable. If a sentence could be anyone’s, it’s no one’s. That’s the filter. That’s the whole game.
