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It took an AI coding agent to notch a small victory against the algorithms. For years, I knew exactly how I wanted to rewrite Twitter, so that the habit of checking notifications would be a little weaker and the impulse would fuel something better. I wanted to interrupt Twitter, before it loaded, with an interstitial page.
Leah Libresco Sargeant is a contributing writer at The Dispatch, and the author of ‘Building the Benedict Option’ and the Other Feminisms Substack. Her latest book, ‘The Dignity of Dependence,’ was published October 2025 by University of Notre Dame Press.
