About: Yates Buckley’s Musings

Strange Shapes Billow Into a Blue Dream

Site for Yates Buckley’s ramblings, sometimes related to technology, science, advertising and his favorite company UNIT9’s work.

There are ways of looking at the world through lenses that give a very different sense of time and space. Bubbles pop, tulips drop, Ponzi’s fade and we are left with dynamics of ecosystems and humans that dance across much longer timescales. I am curious about these spaces where ideas are full of possibility.

Over the year 2025 I tried to create regular content aiming at making more sense of Large Language Models and how to react to them from a creative perspective:

  • On one hand clarifying the sort of work and activity that cannot be performed by AI, fully, and to some extent, ever. And I take this as a direction Artists should dedicate more effort to to avoid creating things that might be mixed up with synthetic production.
  • On the other hand looking for how the technological change actually opens up new mediums for expression, for example what I call LLM Games that are Prompt based simulations of a sort.

I am interested in the craft of writing and the obtruse subjects I bring up, I apologise because a lot of what I do is not so accessible, but I do my best!