// dispatches from the studio
the nine muses (pixel art) — after the classical tradition, 2026
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commonplace 04: how hard can it be?
it's a random Tuesday in April 2026; you're on your second coffee of the morning. a headline slides past: some model you haven't heard of has been released. you file it in the growing folder in your head labeled "things I should probably understand."
→becoming autonomous.
Anthropic just handed designers their iPhone moment. the creative industries, long smugly immune to automation's advance, are discovering that aesthetic judgment might be more algorithmic than they imagined.
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