What a year of testing & thinking about AI academic search taught me
https://aarontay.substack.com/p/what-a-year-of-testing-and-thinking
Published: June 8, 2026 01:51
The Chatbot Is the Wrong Mental Model
🦜 Aaron Tay's Musings about Librarianship
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Aaron Tay's thoughts about academic librarianship
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Hot take: Stop calling poor search rankings necessary friction for learning
https://aarontay.substack.com/p/hot-take-stop-calling-poor-search
Published: June 1, 2026 19:25
Boundary learning, adjacent literature, and why intentional design beats accidental noise.