# Amy J. Ko blog

Amy J. Ko is a professor at the University of Washington Information School, working in human-computer interaction and computer science education. She writes the Bits and Behavior publication on Medium (amyjko.medium.com), and maintains several open-source projects in her spare time — Wordplay, Adminima, Bookish.press, and Reciprocal.Reviews.

Her recent writing on LLMs is skeptical and grounded in her teaching and research rather than in industry adoption. Recurring themes: LLMs promote learning avoidance, the premise of modeling human behavior with data denies people's non-digital emotional reality, and generative AI's costs land on communities its boosters don't count. She writes from a stated political-economy position, so her pieces read differently from the engineering-skeptics in the [[anti-llm-discourse]] cluster even when the craft observations overlap.

## Ingested articles

- [[know-thine-enemy]] — July 2026: a three-month experiment using Claude Code as a skeptic; it worked and cost her focus, joy, money, and values; lands on a harm-reduction stance