AI

Understanding

Industry Analysis / Field Reports

Talk

Ali Alkhatib: Defining AI
Revenge of the junior developer | Sourcegraph Blog
- “Junior devs are vibing. They get it. The world is changing, and you have to adapt. So they adapt! Whereas senior developers are, well… struggling, to put it gently.”
LLMs are mirrors of operator skill
Mo prompts, same problems.
- “You’re not “working smarter” because you asked Claude to write your email thirty seconds faster. That’s not innovation—it’s intellectual laziness dressed up in a productivity metric. The real value of using this technology shows up when you actually think with it. When you use it to pressure-test your assumptions, push your thinking into unfamiliar territory, model decisions before you make them. But that requires effort. And most teams don’t want effort. They want shortcuts. They want vending machine magic.”
Vibe Coding is not an excuse for low-quality work
Your CEO Just Said ‘Use AI or Else.’ Here’s What to Do Next.
The real threat isn’t AI—it’s the discourse surrounding it · Josh Nesbitt
Why I think AI take-off is relatively slow - Marginal REVOLUTION
AI: Where in the Loop Should Humans Go?
AI Won’t Kill Junior Devs - But Your Hiring Strategy Might
I am disappointed in the AI discourse
Engineering Productivity, GenAI, Metrics, Toil
How to navigate your engineering team through the generative AI hype | VentureBeat
To grow, we must forget… but now AI remembers everything | UX Collective
My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts · The Fly Blog
Contra Ptacek’s Terrible Article On AI — Ludicity
LLMs Are This Close to Destroying the Internet
Vibe Coding for Domain Experts – Derek Willis
LLMs are Dissolving & Creating Work | #288
Avoiding Skill Atrophy in the Age of AI - by Addy Osmani
AI use damages professional reputation, study suggests - Ars Technica
Why AI will never replace human code review
Five Things That Scare Me About AI
Use AI to improve your error messages
To benefit from AI, your organization’s learning loops must evolve | by Pavel Samsonov | Mar, 2023 | UX Collective
How to use AI to do practical stuff: A new guide
You can’t solve AI security problems with more AI
Your AI Product Needs Evals
I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again — Ludicity
AI and the automation of work — Benedict Evans

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Misc

Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?
This is not an AI case – Lawyer Watch
‘700 Indian engineers posed as AI’: The London startup that took Microsoft for a ride - BusinessToday
A Practical Survey on Emerging Threats from AI-driven Voice Attacks: How Vulnerable are Commercial Voice Control Systems?
An AI invented a bunch of new paint colors that are hilariously wrong
Anatomy of an AI System
- A 2018 article initially focussing on Alexa as “AI”, it’s still an interesting set of thoughts and predictions
- “A dataset may still be publicly owned, but the meta-value of the data – the model created by it – is privately owned. While there are many good reasons to seek to improve public health, there is a real risk if it comes at the cost of a stealth privatization of public medical services. That is a future where expert local human labor in the public system is augmented and sometimes replaced with centralized, privately-owned corporate AI systems, that are using public data to generate enormous wealth for the very few.”
How to recognize fake AI-generated images
- 2018-era techniques, but still an interesting snapshot, and a reminder of progress
The AI Attack Surface Map v1.0 - Daniel Miessler
Crypto collapse? Get in loser, we’re pivoting to AI – Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain
Before the LLM there was the vulgus-book

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