Humans in the Loop

Stories, Satire, and Other Adventures in the Digital Age

This corner of the internet is home to my collection of stories, satire, blogs, articles, narrative essays, and books about technology, artificial intelligence, data centers, history, and the bewildering relationship between humans and machines.

Some pieces are carefully researched and grounded in history. Others are thought experiments disguised as comedy. A few began as serious articles and wandered into satire before anyone could stop them. Such is life.

You'll find stories about pioneering programmers, stubborn farmers negotiating with trillion-dollar companies, AI models with personality disorders, executives with grand visions, the infrastructure reshaping our world, and much more. Along the way, you'll encounter data centers, power grids, software, algorithms, and the people who build, operate, challenge, and occasionally misunderstand them. At their core, these writings explore a simple idea: technology is never just about technology. It's about people. It's about ambition, ingenuity, power, unintended consequences, and the strange ways that progress collides with everyday life.

Some pieces will make you think. Some may make you laugh. A few may do both at the same time.

So sit for a spell, choose a category, and wander around. Whether you're here for a historical narrative, a technical article, a satirical tale, or a personal reflection, I hope you find something worth reading. After all, the machines may run on electricity and code, but the best stories still run on people.

📖 Stories

• When An AI Agent Went Undercover
• Project Erebus
• AI Etiquette Humor
• AI Layer Cake
• The Great AI Slop Flood of 2025
• Surviving a Cold Spell
• AI Chatbots as Entertainment
• Saga of CheckersBot 3000
• To the Class of 2026
• My First AI Conference
• Dartmouth Naming Convention
• DeepFace vs. DeepMind
• Solving Alignment
• AI Audio Generator
• My Replika Romance
• Inference Gone Wrong
• Watson wins Jeopardy!
• Learning Spanish with Duolingo
• Microsoft Clippy 2.0
• Moments We Have Yet to See
• World's 1st AI Supercomputer
• It's Alive! The GPTs Speak
• The Johnsons and Their Robot Overlords
• Project Pigeon
• The Singularity has a name...Karen
• Subscription Overload
• The Day I Let AI Write My Code
• The Great AI Race
• The Chatbot Support Group

 

🎭 Satire

• The Model Treadmill
• The Great Data Center Rebranding
• The Sommelier of Silicon
• Wait... We're Super Now?
• The Great Ant-thropic Uprising
• Constitutional AI Meets Mar-a-Lago
• Tech Mogul Dropouts
• Reality TV Billionaire Beef
• The Great AI Race
• The Name Game
• The iPod Rebellion
• Grok versus Mistral
• The Wager Heard Round Silicon Valley
• Wait... We're Super Now?
• The War on Ugly Buildings
• Constitutional AI Meets Mar-a-Lago
• The Day Everything Became Super

 

✍️ Blogs

• The Free Rider's Lament
• The Worst Financial Decision in History
• When AI Takes Over Hiring
• The Chatbot is Dead. Long live the Agent.
• Diplomacy in the Age of AI
• The Farmer and the Trillion Dollar Suit
• The Great Burrito Theory of Automation
• The Great Data Center Rebranding
• The Machine Thinks You're a Machine
• The Night the Agent Tried to Cancel Christmas
• People Building Intelligence
• The Resume That Wrote Itself

 

📄 Articles

• When Dashboards Start Managing Managers
• The Perfect Resume
• The Meaning of Work
• The Hugging Face Caper
• The Knowledge Worker Reinvented
• Leading AI Clarity Over Hype
• The Fortune 500 Gets an AI Workforce
• How Three Universities Built Trillions
• Learning Becomes Part of the Job
• Email in the Workplace
• You Got the Diploma. AI Got the Job.

 

📚 Books

Roy McNeill, Author Profile

AI in America Series

• AI in America: From Dartmouth to the AI Revolution, How the United States Built Artificial Intelligence
• The AI Revolutions: Inside the Flashpoints, Visionaries, and Breakthroughs That Changed Everything

 

Age of AI Series

• Health in the Age of AI: Staying Healthy, Living Longer, and Navigating Medicine in the Era of Intelligent Machines
• Jobs in the Age of AI: Finding Opportunity, Building Careers, and Surviving the AI Workforce Revolution
• Leadership in the Age of AI: Leading Humans and Machines in a World of Intelligent Systems
• Living in the Age of AI: How Artificial Intelligence Is Reshaping Everyday Life, Work, Culture, and What It Means to Be Human
• Parenting in the Age of AI: Raising Curious, Safe, and Human Kids in a World of Smart Machines
• Romance in the Age of AI: Finding Love, Keeping Humanity, and Laughing Through the Algorithm
• Security in the Age of AI: Protecting Yourself, Your Identity, and Your World When Machines Can Attack, Defend, and Deceive
• Teaching in the Age of AI: A Teacher's Survival Guide to Raising Humans in the Age of Smart Machines
• Wealth in the Age of AI: Building Financial Security, Creating Opportunity, and Thriving in the Intelligent Economy

 

Humorous Guides to Surviving AI

• AI is Coming for Your Job: Workplace Survival in the Age of AI
• Our House Has a Brain: How to Cope with the Emerging AI Household
• AI is Just an App: Funny Stories From Our Digital Future
• The Super Intelligence Comedy Collection: The Best AI/SI Stories From a World That Just Got Upgraded
• Your AI Doctor Will See You Now: Laughs, Lessons, and Learning from the Front Lines of Digital Medicine

 

🔗 Links

Chatbot Writing Style feature the personalities of AI apps.

AI Writing Style: How Chatbots Think and Write

Chatbot's Comic Style explores chatbots doing standup comedy.

AI Humor home page has jokes, cartoons, and more.

AI Quotes page has some insights about AI.

AI Storybook: Household edition, Animals edition, Billionaires edition and Games eition.