About

Trust your instincts. Build your defences. Then, when you’re ready, teach others to build theirs.

The author lives at the end of the Laterite Highway, in a town called Pandanus Reach. The names on this site are largely invented; the experiences are genuine. The setting carries just enough distortion of reality to be meaningful, and just enough cover for the people who turn up in the stories without having asked to.

She teaches artificial intelligence for a living, which makes her, by her own description, a pseudo-expert in a field that rewrites itself faster than anyone can keep current. This site exists to show what that job actually looks like from the chair of the person doing the training, out here in remote Australia, where the technology arrives at the same time as everywhere else and the support does not.

Diary of an AI Trainer

Humorous, brutally honest, documentary dispatches from the frontline of AI literacy education; the live demos that fail on cue, the webinars that answer every question except the right one, and the daily gap between what the technology promises and what it does when someone is watching. Read the Diary.

AiNT Just Words

The longer look under the bonnet. Where the Diary is the view from the workshop chair, AiNT Just Words is the technology write-up; how the tools actually work, what the research really says, and where the whole thing appears to be heading. Straight write-ups, real sources, cited inline. Read AiNT Just Words.

Elsewhere on the internet

Cyber Obscura. Security-focused storytelling; something like Atlas Obscura pointed at technical concepts, mapping the strange corners of the field. cyberobscura.ink

Silver Obscura Gallery. Monochrome conceptual photography exploring AI themes. silverobscura.com

Stages of Imagenation. A 2025 project for those who want mastery over the technology rather than effortless acceptance of it. Stages of Imagenation