Ev Bogue writes and builds on the open web.
Independent publishing, small tools, and notes from the platform wreckage.
I’m Ev, in Chicago. This is my home base for essays about AI, media, autonomy, protocols, and the business of staying human online.
Latest Writing
AIThe real danger is not that AI destroys humanity. The real danger is that humanity logs off.
ArchiveThe first website I ever built ran on a publishing system I wrote myself, and I'd already rebuilt it three times. I was a teenager. That reflex never left.
AITim Ferriss built the perfect nonfiction product for the pre-chatbot internet, and that is exactly why the chatbot can digest it.
AIAnthropic shipped the most powerful model ever built. My entire experience of it was a closed door the government told them to close.
Anprotoiroh 1.0 shipped with the one idea I care about: dial the key, not the IP. Then I held it against the library I already use, and the browser made the answer complicated.
AIOwen McGrann's Dead Economy Theory is the most coherent explanation of why everyone in Silicon Valley feels nervous even while the tech is working.
AIAnthropic shipped Claude Opus 4.8 today. The model that drafted this post is the thing being launched. The version number went up. The job did not change.