Anna McPhee

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Anna McPhee has been building for the web since before Google existed. She's watched every wave of technology arrive, get overhyped, partially deliver, and reshape the world anyway.

With over 20 years as a full-stack developer, she spent a decade working nomadically before finally admitting that having a fixed address is occasionally useful. She now speaks at conferences on emerging agentic technologies and blogs prolifically about AI.

What Machines Can't Replace is her attempt to say the quiet part loud before everyone else catches up.

Genre:

    Skills:

    • Autobiography / Memoir
    • Non-Fiction

    Branch:

    Overseas

    Location:

    Warragul, VIC Australia 3820

    Publications:

    What Machines Can't Replace: Why AI Makes Us More Human

    The moment AI began generating art and stories, humans began valuing imperfection, effort, and slowness more than ever.

    We're handwriting letters. Choosing bread that took three days. Celebrating flaws. We're not resisting AI, we're discovering what machines can't touch.

    What Machines Can't Replace reveals the paradox at the heart of our AI future: the more abundant machine-made content becomes, the more precious human creativity feels. Drawing on neuroscience, craft traditions, and real workflows from developers, writers, and artists, this book shows how AI becomes a mirror, reflecting what truly matters about being human.

    You'll discover:

    • Why effort creates meaning (and what neuroscience reveals about earned-ness)
    • The "irreplaceability layer": taste, voice, soul, and story
    • Practical frameworks for using AI without losing yourself
    • Tiny experiments to rediscover slowness, texture, and embodied creativity
    • How AI helps us see what we value by showing us what we don't want


    For creators, developers, writers, and anyone navigating work in an AI-saturated world, this is your guide to what stays irreplaceable.