Jan 22, 2026 quotes

Isometric NYC

"I find the usual conversations about AI and creativity to be pretty boring - we've been talking about cameras and sampling for years now, and I'm not particularly interested in getting mired down in the muck of the morality and economics of it all. I'm really only interested in one question: What's possible now that was impossible before?"

Andy Coenen
Isometric NYC

This is an amazing project—it’s like Sim City 2000 but with the actual map of the five boroughs of New York City. This is the sort of project that would be effectively impossible without AI tools, and gives us a peek at an unevenly distributed future. Make sure you play around with the map itself. In fact, you should really start with it before reading Andy’s essay on the construction of the tool and data.