Toby, Matt, and Dan wrestle with what it means to have a “voice” in an AI-mediated world, and what happens when that voice gets flattened, filtered, or faked. This episode digs into the paradox of human ingenuity in the age of synthetic output, the strange intimacy of talking to machines, and why friction, not fluency, might be the future of AI design.

Details in the Show

• Why AI-generated content feels increasingly soulless and how “sludge” became the internet’s new texture
• The performance of trust: how we signal presence in an era of invisible agents
• A defense of friction: what gets lost when AI makes things too easy
• How real-time collaboration with AI can sharpen and not replace human ideas
• Why product interfaces may need less wizardry and more humanity

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