I went to Printing United in September to find out where AI actually is in the workflow tools, so far its Software that doesn’t remember. I stopped at a booth selling print workflow software to the paper printing industry. The rep walked me through it. What it does The software sits between the customer’s file…
This is a Throwback Thursday and a little bit of Fahrenheit AI AI generative art. In April 2025, Apparelist published my article, AI Generative Art in 2025: Integration, Ethics, and Originality. This year, The Academy membership selected it as the overall 2026 Dave Swormstedt Sr. Memorial Award winner. It also won Best-in-Class for Apparel Textile…
Karen Hao asked John Borthwick at CUNY whether we are in an AI bubble, and he said “absolutely.” Borthwick runs Betaworks and has lived through two of these cycles already. He calls this a productive bubble, like the railroads or the fiber buildout: too much money goes in, things break, and the survivors inherit the…
Karen Hao has one line I keep coming back to. “AI is like the word transportation,” she told Mishal Husain on Bloomberg. “Transportation refers to everything from bicycles to rockets.” ChatGPT is a rocket. It costs a fortune to build, it eats land and water and power, and, as she put it, “we never go…
°FAI: Karen Hao Says the US-China AI Race Is Fake. Karen Hao wrote Empire of AI, and she has been watching OpenAI longer than almost anyone. She spent three days inside the company in 2019 and came away unconvinced. I have followed her work since I started the Fahrenheit AI series, mostly because she reports…
°FAI: Which Number Is Lying? A Morning of Making the Data Honest Our weekly press report showed setup running at 18.2 minutes per screen, over our target. That target isn’t arbitrary. It came out of the work I walked through in °FAI: Screen printing setup times, where it drops by a minute a week as…
The Shirt Board has been quietly running for over twenty years. Somewhere in those threads is almost every screen printing question that’s ever been asked, and answered, argued about, answered again better. The problem is finding any of it. Search engines barely touch old forums anymore. So we built a system that lets an AI…
Bouncing between projects, jumping on a call, answering a “quick question” that ate forty minutes, at the end of the week I couldn’t tell you where any of it went. So I built a time tracker. Not an app I downloaded. Not a subscription. One HTML file that runs in any web browser, on my…
Two weeks ago the press log credited someone with a sixteen-hour breakdown. So I made some updates to the logs. You can check out the earlier development here, here and here. The tablet went to sleep overnight, its software timers stopped with it, and the check-in popup and auto-pause slept right through, while the clock…
A few weeks ago I did a Shirt Show episode, and one of the things we talked about was keeping a human in the loop. Because ultimately, a junior separator learns by failing. You fail over and over again, and then you get better at what you’re doing. °FAI: Human in the loop AI, Keep…
