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Featured essay · August 2026

AI is not the shortcut. It is the position.

What a committee is actually testing when a portfolio uses AI, the difference between using it as production and using it as an argument, and two student projects that got it right. Includes the part where I tell you not to use it.

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Notes fromthe studio.

AI is not the shortcut. It is the position.

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