“The infection of all of our personal devices with garbage AI that nobody really wants is actually actively making it all worse now.”
The Vergecast · Tech Strategy & Big Tech · November 2026
Context
Asked whether he feels positive or negative about the current state of technology, the filmmaker says he's more excited by film and old gear than by new tech. He made a camera app partly in reaction to that.
Transcript
…adventures. And I actually like learned basic in order to program my own text adventure, very crude to a measure. So that was like my entry point into, yeah, you know, into computers in general. And but then, yeah, cameras, I think, were my real gadget intro. And yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a disease.
What do you think is the most exciting part of current technology? Like, is there anything that's like driving you in, or do you feel, do you feel negatively or positively? I don't want to say just exciting, but do you feel negatively or positively about the current state of technology? No, I
don't know if it's where I'm at in my life or where it's where tech is at, but I do feel less kind of what are they going to come up with next in terms of tech. I find myself getting more excited going back and messing with, you know, messing with the old women, messing with film and messing with, you know. But I don't know if that's because tech has hit this point where it's kind of doing the same thing, but just doing it slightly better each generation, which is exciting.
Yeah.
I feel like a lot of the, I don't know, and AI, which is a whole other conversation, but just the infection of all of our personal devices with this, with garbage, AI shit that nobody really wants is just is actually actively making it all worse now. And so, but in terms of tech, I don't know, but…
Yeah. So just kind of like using new technology to rebuild old things a little bit differently. That is
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