David Knuffke
@davidknuffke.bsky.social
American Teacher well away from America. Worker Bee.
Pretty sure that I’m both imperfect and doing mostly the right things.
Pretty sure that I’m both imperfect and doing mostly the right things.
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I Wrote A Book
And you can get a copy, if you want one.
davidknuffke.medium.com
I wrote a book on Ethical AI. Because I refuse to let that concept be totally co-opted by people who don’t actually believe in ethical AI. You can get a copy now. Your feedback (and reviews) are most welcome: davidknuffke.medium.com/i-wrote-a-bo...
I think this is true of the typical vanilla chatbot interface. I am not as convinced it is true of pre-prompted and wrapped generative AI applications that are constructed to push cognition, rather than offload it.
Critical thinking is a key component of learning, but this is not what's happening here.
The technology fundamentally mismatches the epistemological demands it creates with the capabilities of its primary educational users.
New piece:
jeppestricker.substack.com/p/the-exhaus...
The technology fundamentally mismatches the epistemological demands it creates with the capabilities of its primary educational users.
New piece:
jeppestricker.substack.com/p/the-exhaus...
The Exhaustion Problem: When Generative AI Demands Expertise From Novices
We have spent considerable energy debating whether humans can detect AI-generated content, whether synthetic information pollutes our knowledge ecosystems, and whether we can build reliable detection ...
jeppestricker.substack.com
February 17, 2026 at 9:41 AM
I think this is true of the typical vanilla chatbot interface. I am not as convinced it is true of pre-prompted and wrapped generative AI applications that are constructed to push cognition, rather than offload it.
Three+ years on, here’s what I think useful generative AI for students (at least as far as their learning goes) looks like: davidknuffke.medium.com/the-novice-b...
The Novice Burden
AI Chatbots and the Developmental Constraints of Learning
davidknuffke.medium.com
February 16, 2026 at 10:34 PM
Three+ years on, here’s what I think useful generative AI for students (at least as far as their learning goes) looks like: davidknuffke.medium.com/the-novice-b...
This is a solid argument for teaching from a systems perspective.
The other day, @agittner.bsky.social prompted me to describe how I would teach a concept.
I found it almost impossible.
And, it had me wondering why, a full time biology teacher, head of biology, & someone who has written so much on biology education, couldn't do it easily.
Here's my answer 🧵
I found it almost impossible.
And, it had me wondering why, a full time biology teacher, head of biology, & someone who has written so much on biology education, couldn't do it easily.
Here's my answer 🧵
February 14, 2026 at 10:01 AM
This is a solid argument for teaching from a systems perspective.
Are you a person or student with dysgraphia (or do you know one)? I’m trying to make an app that helps with Math. It’s not even beta yet, but if you can kick the tires and give me notes and share it around, that would be helpful: dysgraphimath.com
DysgraphiMath
Accessible math problem-solver for students with dysgraphia
dysgraphimath.com
February 14, 2026 at 3:33 AM
Are you a person or student with dysgraphia (or do you know one)? I’m trying to make an app that helps with Math. It’s not even beta yet, but if you can kick the tires and give me notes and share it around, that would be helpful: dysgraphimath.com
Coming back from New Zealand to Singapore really does feel like two different visions of what life can be like. I wish more Americans could travel (or wanted to).
February 13, 2026 at 2:55 AM
Coming back from New Zealand to Singapore really does feel like two different visions of what life can be like. I wish more Americans could travel (or wanted to).
Breaking News: I have repealed gravity and no longer need to buy airplane tickets.
Breaking News: The Trump administration repealed the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human life and well being, meaning that the EPA can no longer regulate them. nyti.ms/4rSszQu
February 13, 2026 at 1:38 AM
Breaking News: I have repealed gravity and no longer need to buy airplane tickets.
Reposted by David Knuffke
Whenever this question comes up, I think of this quote by Iain Banks (RIP):
February 10, 2026 at 10:34 PM
Whenever this question comes up, I think of this quote by Iain Banks (RIP):
There’s only so much stupid that most people can take before they lose their stupid tolerance.
Zach Bryan on the Turning Point USA halftime show:
"I don’t care what side you’re on, a bunch of adults throwing temper tantrums and their own halftime show is embarrassing as hell and the most cringe shit on the planet"
"I don’t care what side you’re on, a bunch of adults throwing temper tantrums and their own halftime show is embarrassing as hell and the most cringe shit on the planet"
February 9, 2026 at 7:37 PM
There’s only so much stupid that most people can take before they lose their stupid tolerance.
I’ve had this week’s meditation on leadership ready-to-go for a few months now. But I’ve been writing in other topics of late. Here, during Interim Semester week, it’s has bubbled to the top of the queue: davidknuffke.medium.com/why-is-the-c...
Why is the Chair Empty?
On requisite humility for entering leaders
davidknuffke.medium.com
February 9, 2026 at 5:37 PM
I’ve had this week’s meditation on leadership ready-to-go for a few months now. But I’ve been writing in other topics of late. Here, during Interim Semester week, it’s has bubbled to the top of the queue: davidknuffke.medium.com/why-is-the-c...
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Terrified Conservatives Lose Ability To Speak English After Exposure To Bad Bunny Performance https://theonion.com/terrified-conservatives-lose-ability-to-speak-english-after-exposure-to-bad-bunny-performance-dios-mio-cry-millions-of-panicking-republicans/
February 9, 2026 at 1:35 AM
Terrified Conservatives Lose Ability To Speak English After Exposure To Bad Bunny Performance https://theonion.com/terrified-conservatives-lose-ability-to-speak-english-after-exposure-to-bad-bunny-performance-dios-mio-cry-millions-of-panicking-republicans/
My greetings to you from our Interim Semester school trip to the North Island, where we saw 2 juvenile orca and an adult about 15 meters off the shoreline at the beach in Tauranga today.
Yesterday I posted about my 44 year dream of seeing the albatross colony in Dunedin. My other dream that has been 44 years in the making has been to visit Rakiura, Aotearoa New Zealand’s third island.
I flew in this afternoon.
I flew in this afternoon.
February 7, 2026 at 5:31 AM
My greetings to you from our Interim Semester school trip to the North Island, where we saw 2 juvenile orca and an adult about 15 meters off the shoreline at the beach in Tauranga today.
How eagerly Big Tech has given itself over to MAGA-fascism is really, really worth writing down in the big book of never forgetting. I am not super-hopeful that it will actually be remembered.
With Jeff Bezos's dismantling of the Washington Post and Amazon's extensive ICE and DoD profiteering, it's imperative to understand precisely how both have openly become instruments of authoritarianism
How Jeff Bezos and Amazon became instruments of authoritarianism
And how to stop them
www.bloodinthemachine.com
February 6, 2026 at 9:48 PM
How eagerly Big Tech has given itself over to MAGA-fascism is really, really worth writing down in the big book of never forgetting. I am not super-hopeful that it will actually be remembered.
Again, it is unconscionable to vibe-code anything that is collecting PII. And it should be liable for legal sanction.
blackoutvpn.au/blog/researc...
blackoutvpn.au/blog/researc...
Researcher Found Moltbook Database Key in Minutes
AI social network Moltbook exposed production database days after launch. Creator bragged AI wrote all the code. Researcher found API key in minutes.
blackoutvpn.au
February 6, 2026 at 8:18 AM
Again, it is unconscionable to vibe-code anything that is collecting PII. And it should be liable for legal sanction.
blackoutvpn.au/blog/researc...
blackoutvpn.au/blog/researc...
I have updated my personal website and reduced the cost of hosting from the $130/year I paid Squarespace to $11.50 a year for the custom domain name on Vercel. Hard to see how legacy site-builders survive the rise of LLM-assisted IDEs: davidknuffke.com
David Knuffke
The personal website and digital garden of David Knuffke.
davidknuffke.com
February 3, 2026 at 12:09 PM
I have updated my personal website and reduced the cost of hosting from the $130/year I paid Squarespace to $11.50 a year for the custom domain name on Vercel. Hard to see how legacy site-builders survive the rise of LLM-assisted IDEs: davidknuffke.com
I can’t imagine ever collecting information from users of anything even remotely vibe-coded. It’s just a wild choice, and the issues are going to become more and more common.
www.404media.co/exposed-molt...
www.404media.co/exposed-molt...
Exposed Moltbook Database Let Anyone Take Control of Any AI Agent on the Site
'It exploded before anyone thought to check whether the database was properly secured.'
www.404media.co
February 3, 2026 at 8:03 AM
I can’t imagine ever collecting information from users of anything even remotely vibe-coded. It’s just a wild choice, and the issues are going to become more and more common.
www.404media.co/exposed-molt...
www.404media.co/exposed-molt...
I built a practice tool that is significantly more sophisticated than anything I’ve ever been able to build before in the span of a few weeks. I appreciate vibe-coding skepticism, but it has not been my experience: davidknuffke.medium.com/i-built-a-we...
I Built A Website
An Inquiry into the Current State of LLM-Assisted Coding
davidknuffke.medium.com
February 2, 2026 at 10:08 PM
I built a practice tool that is significantly more sophisticated than anything I’ve ever been able to build before in the span of a few weeks. I appreciate vibe-coding skepticism, but it has not been my experience: davidknuffke.medium.com/i-built-a-we...
A friend made this little vibe-coded, non-piracy, streamer to get off his spotify spigot. Not a bad little example of how one might ethically use modern tools to fight the forces that seek to gain from them: github.com/BioHapHazard...
GitHub - BioHapHazard/Freedify: Stream music and podcasts from anywhere. Search songs, albums, artists, podcasts, or paste URLs from Spotify, Bandcamp, Archive.org, Phish.in, and more. Inspired by and...
Stream music and podcasts from anywhere. Search songs, albums, artists, podcasts, or paste URLs from Spotify, Bandcamp, Archive.org, Phish.in, and more. Inspired by and built off of Spotiflac by af...
github.com
February 1, 2026 at 12:16 AM
A friend made this little vibe-coded, non-piracy, streamer to get off his spotify spigot. Not a bad little example of how one might ethically use modern tools to fight the forces that seek to gain from them: github.com/BioHapHazard...
Reposted by David Knuffke
I’ve been on a pretty self-promotional jag for the whole book publication thing. But I also wanted to write a bit about how to do it, since it’s much easier than many people (including past-me) think. H/T to @cmooreanderson.bsky.social for some advice: davidknuffke.medium.com/how-i-made-a...
How I Made A Book
The Mechanics of Modern Publication
davidknuffke.medium.com
January 26, 2026 at 10:39 PM
I’ve been on a pretty self-promotional jag for the whole book publication thing. But I also wanted to write a bit about how to do it, since it’s much easier than many people (including past-me) think. H/T to @cmooreanderson.bsky.social for some advice: davidknuffke.medium.com/how-i-made-a...
I would happily give up all of my social media if it meant that social media was both dead and no longer contributing to the current global crises that it helps to exacerbate.
January 26, 2026 at 7:41 AM
I would happily give up all of my social media if it meant that social media was both dead and no longer contributing to the current global crises that it helps to exacerbate.
The first rule of running the American Gestapo is that you never say you are running the American Gestapo.
Bovino: "When politicians, community leaders, & some journalists engage in that heated rhetoric we keep talking about, when they make the choice to vilify law enforcement calling law enforcement 'Gestapo' or using the term 'kidnapping,' that is a choice & there are actions & consequences."
January 25, 2026 at 9:08 PM
The first rule of running the American Gestapo is that you never say you are running the American Gestapo.
Noem deserves significant time in jail for what she has done over the past year. Constitutional crimes all over the place.
Q: Did he brandish a gun?
KRISTI NOEM: This individual showed up to impede a law enforcement operation and assaulted our officers. I don't know of any peaceful protester that shows up with a gun and ammunition rather than a sign. This is a violent riot when you have someone showing up with weapons
KRISTI NOEM: This individual showed up to impede a law enforcement operation and assaulted our officers. I don't know of any peaceful protester that shows up with a gun and ammunition rather than a sign. This is a violent riot when you have someone showing up with weapons
January 25, 2026 at 7:46 AM
Noem deserves significant time in jail for what she has done over the past year. Constitutional crimes all over the place.
Is America going to become inured to summary executions by the state? Sure feels like it could go either way at this point.
January 24, 2026 at 11:39 PM
Is America going to become inured to summary executions by the state? Sure feels like it could go either way at this point.
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Alex Pretti… This is who Trump’s secret police killed today in Minnesota. He was a VA nurse.
January 24, 2026 at 8:39 PM
Alex Pretti… This is who Trump’s secret police killed today in Minnesota. He was a VA nurse.
I wrote a book on Ethical AI. Because I refuse to let that concept be totally co-opted by people who don’t actually believe in ethical AI. You can get a copy now. Your feedback (and reviews) are most welcome: davidknuffke.medium.com/i-wrote-a-bo...
I Wrote A Book
And you can get a copy, if you want one.
davidknuffke.medium.com
January 23, 2026 at 2:55 PM
I wrote a book on Ethical AI. Because I refuse to let that concept be totally co-opted by people who don’t actually believe in ethical AI. You can get a copy now. Your feedback (and reviews) are most welcome: davidknuffke.medium.com/i-wrote-a-bo...