Thomas Claburn
Unclaimed profileSenior Reporter, The Register
United States
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Senior reporter at The Register with nearly 30 years of tech publishing experience. Specialty in government IT, software development, and AI ethics. Roles ranged from magazine section editor to editor-at-large. Previously at InformationWeek, Wired Magazine, and Ziff Davis. Also a software developer and fiction writer. BA Humanities from UC Berkeley, MFA Film Production from SF State. Based in San Francisco.
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Thomas Claburn has been covering the dark side of generative AI, highlighting its limited real-world usefulness, its impact on intellectual honesty, and how businesses exaggerate its adoption. Their recent work also touches on tech communities pushing back, like Codeberg rejecting vibe-coded projects in favor of human-maintained software.