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From one piece The real energy use of agentic AI 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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This is the Jevons paradox in action: making compute cheaper per token in turn tends to lead to greater levels of AI use.
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Which is why the lever that actually matters most is the carbon intensity of the electricity.
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Unlike aviation, this is an end-use we already know how to decarbonize.
4 August
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From one piece 🌻 no data centers in my backyard 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Rather, the way that AI companies engage with communities-forcing NDAs, dangling billion-dollar promises, pushing environmental externalities far away from AI's wealthy user base-resembles a classic story about dark money in politics.
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Most workers vulnerable to AI-driven displacement lack organized representation to negotiate on their behalf.Their words
Most workers in America today, and most who are vulnerable to AI displacement, don't have organized representation.
From one piece Waymo Co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov: The Demo Is Only 1% Of The Work 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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And the problem of building a good realistic simulator is just as hard as building the agent itself.
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And that's why every hype cycle produces a wave of absolutely spectacular demos and very few real products. And the recurring mistake of every cycle is spending on the demo when you should be saving for the nines.
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Given the high cost of errors, you need to have a very high level of safety and a very high level of confidence on day one before you deploy your first robot, before you drive your your first autonomous mile.
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That the best AI moments will look like nothing happened. It's just the task got done safely and smoothly.
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So, a deployment of your agent uh in the real world generates data. That data then grounds the simulator and makes it more realistic. The simulator generates harder edge cases for the critic to score and for the agent to learn from.
From one piece @chamath on X 3 beliefs · x.com
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Looking at the results and capabilities from the various labs over the past few weeks I would say we are firmly in this loop now.
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Marginal costs of all models will go to ~$0.
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Recursive self improvement will dramatically increase capability very quickly from here.
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The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error'Their words
This is such a useful book. It makes the case that there's no such thing as "human error" - instead most catastrophes are caused by system issues, misaligned incentives, and unrealistic processes. You are not the custodian of an otherwise safe system that you need to protect from erratic human beings.
2 August
From one piece This CPO regrets that product management exists | Tom Verrilli (CPO of Whatnot) 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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you can have one very senior PM across more things and they can be more efficient than having, you know, three relatively entry-level PMs.
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most of commerce in America isn't actually high intent. Like how many years are we into e-commerce now? Like 30 years into e-commerce and e-commerce has never exceeded 20% of retail spend in America.
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absolutely agree that product skills are probably the most durable. My build would just be there's a lot of people who have the title PM who haven't spent a lot of time building those skills in the last 5 years, but have gotten really good at communicating frameworks to leadership.
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as a product manager, I've spent less time in the last year talking to a data scientist than I ever have in my career, even though I've probably spent 10 times more time in data and understanding actually how the product's working than I have ever have in my career.
1 August
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China's tolerance of deflation has caused widespread underemployment and unemployment among its youth.Their words
Policy decisions have condemned a generation of Chinese youth to widespread under- and un-employment.
31 July
From one piece Patrick Collison: Is AI Breaking the Lean Startup Playbook? 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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AI will not centralise the economy into a handful of companies; there are going to be many thousands of winners.Their words
But based on what we can see at Stripe, the hunger and the intensity with which other companies are either getting started, taking advantage of these new capabilities, or existing companies are retooling, I don't worry about the centralization in the same way. Uh I think there I think there are going to be many thousands of winners.
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And just human organizations are complicated and it's very hard to have um to manage to aggressively prosecute 100 different priorities and to deal with all the issues and interference that arises among them and so forth. And so, you know, Google has done incredibly well in a bunch of specific places, but it's not like Google has done all the things even if in some kind of basic material sense, uh Google maybe, you know, had that ability.
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Models can prove monumental theorems and still have never written an essay worth reading.Their words
I mean, it's very interesting, right? Because these can prove the Jacobian conjecture, you know, whatever. Uh and so clearly they're capable of these monumental feats. Um but somehow I still haven't read the LLM essay that I found super compelling.
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So, I um yeah, I think maybe maybe a better way of saying it is 20 20 years ago that whole lean startup thing was uh was almost the only thing to do because of capital available and you didn't have AI that made, I don't know, spinning up an organization with many different potentialities and capabilities so much easier, whereas now I think you can start these much more aggressive and ambitious things up front.
30 July
From one piece Jeff Dean: The 1% Rule for Building in AI 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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AI models have reached the level of a junior engineer on longer-running, agent-based coding tasks.Their words
Yeah, I mean I feel like uh the models have been getting a lot better at sort of agent-based longer running coding tasks and it seems pretty clear that they are now actually pretty capable and depending on exactly your definition of of junior engineer it seems pretty spot-on I would say.
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Um, and to give you an example of a a a use of a coding agent that works extremely well is you can ask today's models to translate software from one computer language to another very effectively because in that case you actually have a incredibly detailed specification.
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Um, and sometimes that's because the model is trying to do something it doesn't have a lot of experience doing. So it's been trained on a whole set of things and as soon as you get a little bit off the distribution of things it knows how to do then like most machine learning models it will you know its performance will suddenly will start to degrade and the farther you get off the comfort zone of what it knows how to do the the more likely it is to to not work as well.
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The numbers an AI engineer should know by heart are memory bandwidths and the energy cost of a single operation.Their words
Yeah, I mean I think if you looked at what is important in AI systems these days, you would want to know things like the bandwidth between you know your main memory system on your accelerator to the onchip memory to the um you know the multiplier unit or whatever. You want to know how much energy does it take to do a single multiplier operation.
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If you think about our large scale models today, they probably see a thousand times as much data as a human does by the age of 18. Yet, the human by the age of 18 is better in a lot of things and, you know, on par uh with those frontier models that have seen way more data. So could you come up with much more data efficient systems that can learn continuously learn from their own actions?
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GranolaTheir words
Pedregal is the co-founder and CEO of Granola, which has been my own AI notetaker since shortly after it launched.
29 July
From one piece Formal methods with Hillel Wayne 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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So, it's hard to tell how much of like the loss of the past few years was AI versus the end of like zero interest rate policy and like the post-COVID crash. And I think it's more the latter, but like again, LLMs are still getting better.
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I think this project and writing about it and thinking about it has firmly moved me from the camp of we are definitely not to we probably are.
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And often I found with my clients I have to tell them like it's doing a good job at generating the actual design, but in actually expressing what the design is supposed to do, it cannot do that yet. You have to do that part yourself.
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As a general thing we've seen like to get good results you have to already know how to get good results without it. It just helps you get good results faster.
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I predict that in the next 10 years software development will survive, but it will become like any other white-collar professional work. No more $200,000 salaries, unlimited vacation, or incredible employee bargaining power.
From one piece Alexandr Wang: “This is a Once-in-a-Civilization Opportunity” 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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we don't believe in a world where these models are so expensive that, you know, they get rationed only for the most wealthy of developers and and companies.
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The future of AI is a broad decentralised ecosystem, not a totalising handful of AIs that control the world.Their words
we don't believe in this totalizing, you know, totalitarian view of, you know, AIs that control the world. We believe that these are going to enhance this very broad ecosystem.
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so much of that debate is like I think um in some ways uh a little bit of a waste of time because, you know, I think it's inevitable that we're going to have very powerful models
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we believe that everybody in the world, you know, all the billions of people in the world are going to have a super intelligence that is adapted and tailored to them, that is enables them to accomplish their goals, knows their context, and ultimately is an expander of their own agency.
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I think we're at this like in amazing moment in the world where the bottleneck is not the progress of the AI models, the bottleneck is diffusing that through the rest of the world and and helping the world adapt to this amazing technology that already exists. Like I think if the models didn't improve at all from today, there would still be like decades and decades of like total upheaval and change in the economy and how the world operates and and everything around us
28 July
From one piece Sam Altman: "Never a Better Time to Do a Startup" 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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but I would I would bet that this generally will cut against many years of experience in favor of people who have a lot of fluency with the tools.
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it is both true that you know maybe creating super intelligence will be the most important thing yet to happen in the history of business or human society and also that it will pale in comparison to some new startup something that hopefully one of you will do.
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In fact, if if we are right that AI is going to be such a big change, startups will be much more important to making sure that the power of this technology gets widely distributed throughout the economy and society and is not just concentrated in a few companies or models.
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I think it's a real reminder of the stakes of what's happening and that loss of control accidents are not entirely theoretical things.
From one piece Blake Scholl: How 50 People Built a Supersonic Jet 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Cheaper software has increased the number of software engineers a company needs, not reduced it.Their words
At boom we need far more software engineers in a postAI world than we need in a pre-AI world. Why? Because the cost of software development has dropped. anybody including hardware engineers can now become a coder and we need software engineers to make sure the architectures are right and make sense and are coherent.
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“Work on what you know” is the worst advice there is: knowledge can be acquired, but what you love cannot be changed.Their words
So I think the worst advice is like work on what you know. Uh what you know can be changed. Particularly in a world where you everyone has personalized AI tutors. Anybody with passion and dedication can learn new knowledge and learn new skills. But what you can't change easily is what you love.
27 July
From one piece Boris Cherny: We Cut 80% of Claude Code's Prompt 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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And what's interesting is that the model is actually a little bit more intelligent without these prompts.
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I think the skill nowadays is less about prompt engineering and more about figuring out how do you give Claude a hard task that seems a little bit too hard. And then how do you make it possible for Claude to verify its work along the way? And the verification I think is probably the single most important thing that people do not get right
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the model does not seem to be prompt injectable anymore.
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So when I look at engineers that have been, you know, coding for a long for a long time, you know, like for for years or for decades, this is a really really common failure mode is trying to over specify and it's trying to be overly specific and then, you know, get the model to do the to do the task exactly the way that you would have done it. And that that's just not the way the model works.
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for people that aren't building agentic products, but you're using Claude code, every 6 months delete your Claude MD. Delete your skills. Delete your hooks.
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AI writing tools can be used for editing help without letting them take over work that has personal meaning.Their words
You can use AI without handing it the work you love doing, or the work that means something to you.
26 July
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I cancelled and then vibecoded 100% of my SaaS subscriptions I only pay for domains, server hosting and storage and AI APIs
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I'm seeing a trend here of declining revenue and traffic with indiehackers On my own projects too Maybe big VC products too but I wouldn't know cause they don't share revenue To me it seems clear BigAI is cannibalizing everything that used to be apps
From one piece Requiem for a Field? 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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in an intellectually dead field, AI will just produce worthless junk. If what you feed it is decades of complicated and meaningless computations, it will just produce even more complicated and meaningless ones.
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So far I haven't seen AI agents doing anything new and important that I would care about, but maybe that's just a matter of time...
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The results have surprised me: these things are a lot more capable than I had expected.
From one piece Jensen Huang: The Mindset That Built NVIDIA 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The evidence would show that and it makes perfect sense that AI and automation is creating jobs everywhere. The narrative about AI destroying jobs is exactly backwards. AI eliminate tasks. AI automates tasks away. But it doesn't necessary doesn't necessarily eliminate jobs.
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Without open source there would have been no mobile cloud industry, and no modern AI either.Their words
If not for open source, the mobile cloud industry would have never happened.
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we want we want to encourage everybody and every company to build their own AIs. And and and who knows what innovation will come from the fact that it's open source.
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likely this will be one of the largest industries in the world and um, uh, it'll take longer than a couple two, three years. It'll take less than 10. And so this will this will be our next $100 billion business.
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we we kind of have coarse level uh recursive self-improvement already. And the fact that every time you use it, it improves the markdown files. Uh every time you use it, it updates its uh long-term memory.
25 July
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ClaudeTheir words
So by far the funniest thing about using Claude and Codex together is how Codex is very earnest and businesslike while Claude treats Codex like an inferior but hard-working subordinate
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CodexTheir words
So by far the funniest thing about using Claude and Codex together is how Codex is very earnest and businesslike while Claude treats Codex like an inferior but hard-working subordinate
24 July
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Claude Opus 5Their words
Opus 5 is a great model for coding, data analysis, design, biology, knowledge work.
23 July
From one piece An opinionated guide to which AI to use to do stuff 3 beliefs · oneusefulthing.org
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Google currently has no leading frontier AI model and no agentic coding tool comparable to Codex or Claude CodeTheir words
Google, which led on benchmarks not that long ago, has fallen behind where it now counts: it has no leading frontier model and it has nothing close to Codex and Code.
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Microsoft Copilot is adequate for office document work but significantly behind in agentic capabilityTheir words
Copilot, which uses a mix of AI models and is okay for working with office documents but lags badly in terms of its agentic abilities.
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Higher-priced AI subscription tiers mainly buy more hours of agent usage rather than a smarter underlying modelTheir words
The more expensive plans are mostly buying you more hours of AI labor, not smarter AI.
22 July
From one piece Finding Alpha: What’s Worth Consuming in the Age of AI 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Language models cannot hold a genuine perspective or take a stand for what they believe.Their words
But for LLMs, it shows that they have no skin in the game and will never take a stand for what they believe in regardless of what it costs. They are perspective generators, not perspective holders.
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They've given us broad, passive exposure to the market average, but at the cost of suppressing upside
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I genuinely believe that if you took an open weights model from 2025 and built a pentest harness for it, it could do this kind of sandbox escape and scan/hack in most networks. This is only surprising because you assume OpenAI has sounder sandboxes.
From one piece We Need Guidelines for Learning and AI 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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You cannot learn from work you did not do yourself.Their words
But having AI do your homework is self-defeating. You can’t learn without doing the work.
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AI has the potential to assist with both the first and last element of that loop. What it cannot replace is the middle step—doing the work for yourself.
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Asking AI for help on a first attempt robs you of the experience that builds your own judgement about the problem.Their words
Asking an AI for help with the start of an essay, for instance, will invariably shape what direction you end up following, robbing you of the crucial experience of building your own judgement around a topic and selecting your own path to research and argue.
21 July
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I told him what I believe: that in the age of AI, medicine will be bottlenecked more than ever by regulation and the grind of clinical trials, and that billions poured into faster pre-clinical research won’t touch that problem, unsexy as it is.
Intelligence is not the main bottleneckwritingruxandrabio.com
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So you went from a business chain of customer > app > ai model provider To customer > ai model provider The app layer is possibly getting removed!
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PangramTheir words
For the first time, I ran all potential winners through Pangram, which is an AI-writing detector.1 So according to the machine (and to my ear), all of the winners are 100% human-written.
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Chatting AloneTheir words
Martsinovich argues, via code snippets, that there is no such thing as a "conversation" with a chatbot. The AI is born anew every time it speaks, and it simply reads the dialogue so far and then tries to write the next line:
20 July
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Now that everyone can build apps with AI, distribution is the thing that separates who wins.Their words, before
I think the challenge is that everyone can now build apps But 1) almost nobody has distribution (like an audience), or 2) the money to pay for distribution (ads or UGC), or 3) the creative genius to get distribution for free (classically called guerilla marketing)
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I thought it'd be distribution but who knows, obviously creativity and ideas, but if you can copy a successful app in an hour, then how does that differentiating work?
From one piece Superintelligence has passed us and we're all running after the carrot 2 beliefs · levels.io
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AI has equalised everyone: coding, building and execution are no longer a differentiator.Their words
So AI has made everybody just as capable as everyone else, it equalized everyone in the world, as in everyone can make everything (software, music, images, art etc) now and everyone is equal, at least in the digital realm now
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It's pretty clear to me that superintelligence is here and it's more powerful than us and it's moving where things are going now, not humans anymore
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AI is raising public expectations of government service at the same time it changes what government must deliver.Their words
Every state, and the federal government right along with them, is about to be asked to do a lot more than keep the lights on.
19 July
From one piece Why Netflix is betting on systems thinkers—not specialists—in the AI era | Elizabeth Stone (CPTO) 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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So, even in a world of AI where some things are easier, we were talking earlier about mindset, AI fluency. From my experience, younger folks are more open-minded. They tend to be more native in some of these new ways of working.
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It does feel like we have to be more more explicit about the types of people and talent that tend to thrive at Netflix versus other companies like some of the frontier labs.
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So, the most useful thing is not to make it level specific or role specific, but to encourage everyone towards the expectation on AI fluency, which doesn't mean use it as a tech for the sake of tech. It's tech where it's useful, to have good judgment about that, and to have the mindset to be open-minded to explore and try new things.
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So, we are hiring more people who can look across all the business domains and abstract that to here's the building blocks we're going to need in a world with AI.
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In a world of AI with agents operating across multiple systems, wanting source of truth data, the importance of having preferred paved paths that get the most of the benefits and produce some guardrails so we can make sure we're doing good work, common infrastructure, common paved paths, solving problems once with a core set of capabilities becomes more important.
18 July
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Pushing an LLM's reasoning budget higher eventually yields diminishing returns and becomes uneconomical.Their words
This saturation can be seen more clearly for the GPT 5.6 Sol model, which also shows that increasing reasoning budgets can become uneconomical at some point.
Controlling Reasoning Effort in LLMsmagazine.sebastianraschka.com
17 July
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From one piece Notebooks And The Extended Mind 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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the external tools that we use to help us reason, remember, associate, calculate-from counting on our fingers to chatting with an advanced LLM-should be properly understood as extensions of our own cognitive process.
Notebooks And The Extended Mindadjacentpossible.substack.com
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the most pressing question is not whether the machines are on the verge of sentience, since the likelihood of that seems low.
Notebooks And The Extended Mindadjacentpossible.substack.com
From one piece My speech at Borgo Laudato Si’ 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Competitive pressure among AI developers could cause loss of control even without anyone intending itTheir words
But in a climate of rushed decisions and fierce competition, we could lose control over AI even if almost no one wants that outcome.
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AI is developing at a very rapid pace, far more rapidly than most outside of the industry fully understand, and far more rapidly than almost anyone in the industry predicted.
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Loss of control is a risk for the next few years, not the next few decades as many experts once thought.
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The feature is disabled by Google in ChromeOS, Android and in production Google servers which certainly holds back some use of it.
15 July
From one piece Labor is Now Free. Make Something. 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Now is the best time ever to start a small business, thanks to AI making labor essentially free.Their words
There has never been a better time to start a small business.
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The difference in performance between horse and buggy and a modern car is far less than hand coding and AI coding.
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This will become normal and commonplace 12-24 months from now, but right now no one really knows.
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AI's transformation of society will unfold gradually over decades, not in a single moment of takeoff.Their words
AI will take many decades to ripple through society. We won't see the end of it in our lifetimes.
From one piece Open source models are having a moment 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Geo-politically, countries will be weighing open weight models as a way to get frontier-level tokens inside controlled environments that may not be otherwise possible.
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Organizations will trade some access to frontier-level AI capability for greater control over how their data is used.Their words
Organizations are increasingly looking for control over how their data is used and are willing to trade off some access to frontier level tokens for this control.
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The future is multi-model.Their words
it is clear we are going to have a diverse ecosystem of models at least on coding and agentic use.
From one piece Various and Sundry 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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AI-generated junk papers risk overwhelming the hep-th physics field with worthless content.Their words
The result is something completely worthless, but not obviously distinguishable from many other things on hep-th, which is in serious danger of going from something sad and unhealthy to something completely overwhelmed with crud.
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While in mathematics AI agents are starting to have a major positive impact on research (e.g. by resolving the Jacobian conjecture), the situation is very different in hep-th.
From one piece Context engineering with Dex Horthy 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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the problem with training models on maintainability is like the cost function of bad architecture and bad program design can't be evaluated by running the unit test because it hits you 3 to 6 months later
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you can slow way down and read every PR and read every line of code. Uh, and then you're only going to really get modest benefits from AI because that becomes I I think you should expect maybe 30 to 50% lift in productivity is kind of what I see when we go into teams
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yes it will catch things and it will raise your floor but I don't believe like the model writing the code is the same model reading the code and if you ask a model hey is this code good it's going to be like oh yeah it's great comprehensive it's got unit tests
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But if you don't have good LLM intuition, like 100K for smaller models, 200K for these like really beefy like Codeex and Opus 4.8 models is usually a good like training wheel guideline of like if you pass there, your quality of results may be degrading.
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And at the end of the day, they're all like different ways to pass tokens into a model and ask it to produce usually some structured output. And understanding that is a lot more powerful than trying to learn memory and trying to pick some agent framework off the shelf and some memory framework off the shelf.
14 July
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404 MediaTheir words
Trigger warning to graphic designers: worst AI-designed fliers, via the excellent 404 Media. Heinous!
13 July
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Siri AITheir words
The ability to go from Siri in the Camera to a longer conversation in the dedicated Siri app is one of my favorite aspects of Siri AI.
12 July
11 July
From one piece The value of software in a Fable world 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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As AI makes coding easy for everyone, the ability to code stops being a meaningful edge for entrepreneurs.Their words
Indie entrepreneurs need to stack every advantage they have, and increasingly "coding" won't be the advantage it once was.
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My guess is that people will still want to buy certain types of software and tools "off-the-shelf."
10 July
From one piece Don't you mean extinct? 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Writing every line by hand is no longer the norm. Those who refuse to use an LLM will fall behind because they won't be able to produce as much
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But for everything else, code quality still matters tremendously.
9 July
From one piece Is Recall the Second Brain for the AI Era? 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The quality of the context given to an AI matters more than the model's inherent capability.Their words
The quality of your context beats the cleverness of the model.
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AI tends to flatten outputs toward sameness, so personal taste and perspective become the main way to stand out.Their words
AI flattens everything it touches. The way you stand out is by getting clearer about what you really want, your taste, your perspective, your opinions.
From one piece The rise of taste, human authenticity and judgment in an AI world | Adam Mosseri (Head of IG) 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Ask an AI lazily for a strategy and you get the predictable move your competitors already expect from you.Their words
I think if you ask an AI just for a strategy lazily, you're not going to get something great. You're going to get something pretty predictable that probably the competition would expect you to do.
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I believe that if you are too prescriptive as a leader with a team you end up stifling good ideas but if you're too open-ended sometimes teams just waste time um going in the wrong direction.
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But I don't think we should judge content based on the tool that made it. Um I think we should judge it based on the content, the point of view, the person behind the content.
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That's hard by the way because we can detect that right now, but as these models get better, we might lose the ability to detect that.
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But they just by virtue of having less people to coordinate they can often move faster and make um better decisions a little bit less design by committee.
8 July
From one piece From Solvers to Research: Large Language Model-Driven Formal Mathematics at the Research Frontier (with 18 co-authors) 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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AI systems are now capable of meaningful contributions to formal mathematics, not only informal problem-solving.Their words
These developments inform our position that AI systems are now capable of meaningful contributions to formal mathematics, not merely informal problem-solving.
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However, these LLM reasoners that generate informal reasoning in natural language are fundamentally limited by the lack of precise, machine-checkable semantics, making their outputs prone to hallucinations [Huang et al., 2025b] and precluding autonomous verification, a prerequisite for tackling open-ended mathematical research.
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We argue that the next leap in AI4Math systems requires a decisive shift from predefined problem-solvers to research agents that can address frontier mathematical challenges with rigorous formal mathematical reasoning.
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Claude Code /checkupTheir words
New in Claude Code: /checkup
7 July
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From one piece If You Want Taste, You're Gonna Have to Eat 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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AI has made ability nearly free, making taste the main bottleneck separating good creators from mediocre ones.Their words
As AI has allowed more and more people to create things, the biggest differentiation, the biggest skill people are lacking, is taste itself.
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AI can hand you the end result of a skill without the attentive practice that used to build it.Their words
It gives you the destination without the hours of noticing that used to get you there.
4 July
3 July
2 July
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Claude Code ArtifactsTheir words
Artifacts in Claude Code have been life changing. Excited to expand to Pro and Max!
1 July
From one piece Google’s exponential path to climate-wrecking digital bloat 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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What is happening is that GenAI's climate harm comes from the system design, such as Google's AI overview triggering constantly whether users want it or not, in addition to significantly worse digital bloat tools dominating overconsumption.
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It is actually pretty likely that it was Google's efficiency actions that enabled their total energy consumption to increase.
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Both hide the fact the company is simply choosing the climate-wrecking road, consciously.
From one piece How Kent Beck shapes the software engineering industry 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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So one of the things is that the pace of development is definitely accelerated. One thing I wonder the pace of business hasn't accelerated though and that mismatch is going to become more and more apparent.
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which is why when I see manifestos today I'm just like too soon. Not a bad idea. Would love to have one just too soon. It took 15 years for the technical change of object-oriented programming to come before we could say here are the consequences of it. Here's how in a simple way we can express how to effectively use this technology that we've been using day in and day out for 15 years. The genie comes along. People are like, "Well, what's the new manifesto? It's just not manifesto time yet.
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When an AI agent runs out of forward progress, throw the project away and start over rather than trying to tweak it.Their words
the genie runs out of g runs itself out of options it can't make further forward progress and so I'll wipe it away start over I won't try and tweak I'll start over and say all right well if I implement things in a different order. If I implement with this markdown file or if I implement it with this commit hook, we collectively need to try absolutely everything.
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Nobody knows now. That playbook has been wiped clean and people whose identity is I know the playbook are now terrified. Who who am I? Now, it turns out that the skill of writing a playbook is completely different than the skill of applying a playbook.
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It costs tokens in the short run, but it can save them in the long run because one of the classic genie mistakes is stuff doesn't work.
From one piece Artificial adventures 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Cheap flat-rate AI subscription pricing is a temporary loss-leader that will be phased out once users are hookedTheir words
The subscriptions to frontier models are a very good deal, but it looks like they are being phased out now that everyone is hooked.
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Frontier AI models essentially never fabricate outright false facts, unlike smaller modelsTheir words
I haven't seen anything I would call a hallucination from the frontier models.
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But they are terrible at making decisions. They have the worst judgement.
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Preliminary Report of the Independent International Scientific Panel on AITheir words
That’s why we’re launching the Preliminary Report of the Independent International Scientific Panel on AI — an initial evidence-based assessment of the current state of AI science — to help the public and policymakers better understand the unprecedented moment we’re in.
30 June
From one piece Grant Sanderson (@3blue1brown) – AI disproved a famous math conjecture. Now what? 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I think we would always still prefer like a human that we had a relationship with because the way that we get motivated to be interesting interested in things is a social phenomenon.
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I think the way that you'd measure conjecture generating ability is going to be more subjective on like that tone shift where um it'll be mathematicians saying they're not just using it to like solve their problems, but as they step back and decide what their research field should even be that a conversation with such and such model like was genuinely helpful for that.
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but it would be a little bit disappointing and a little bit surprising if there weren't over the next 5 years like, uh, economically valuable improvements that were made that were directly like referable to the like AI progress in math.
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that like if it's capable of building mountains uh that are, you know, the correct new theory that like crystallizes how we should be thinking about a subject, that's just such a level of intelligence that then it starts to feel like it would be surprising if that didn't permeate into other aspects of the economy besides like just the mountain building for math itself.
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So in that sense basically using it like a very souped-up version of Google on like zero in on the right human written resource.
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Mac miniTheir words
I believe that a Mac mini with Codex running on it is the best bang for your buck if you’re building an always-on agentic setup based on a frontier model that can do just about anything you throw at it.
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Usesrcmnd.app
XcodeTheir words
When writing code, I'm mostly in Xcode, often in concert with Prompt and, lately, Claude Code.
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Claude CodeTheir words
When writing code, I'm mostly in Xcode, often in concert with Prompt and, lately, Claude Code.
29 June
From one piece The generic style of AI web design 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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AI models default to generic, lowest-common-denominator output unless a user actively pushes back against them.Their words
If the user doesn't actively push back against the AI model, then they get the generic output, the lowest common acceptable denominator of aesthetics and taste.
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this kind of instantly ubiquitous homogeneity is going to happen across every field of human endeavor in the era of AI, until AI gets so powerful that it actually becomes original (doubtful) or until we shut it down.
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Getting genuinely original output from AI requires working hard against the grain of its defaults.Their words
You have to work very hard, against a lot of friction, to get anything remotely original out of AI.
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it’s also true that their impact on our output was never as tremendous or as clear-cut as that of prior innovations, such as the steam engine or the power loom, and that integrating them effectively into the workforce took a long time
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The presence of an em dash in a piece of writing does not indicate it was written by AI.Their words
AI uses em dashes. Humans use em dashes. That does not make an em dash an AI fingerprint any more than Batman's cape makes everyone in a bath towel Batman.
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Claude ConnectorsTheir words
This is why I recommend ignoring the vast web of custom and “community-built” MCP servers you can find out there, and focusing your attention on the two safer bets instead
28 June
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American overregulation and labor-market rigidity make elevators far more common in Europe than in the US.Their words
elevators are the rare part of the economy where Europeans have embraced market dynamism while Americans choose overregulation and labor market rigidity.
27 June
From one piece Using Local Coding Agents 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Proprietary AI services will become more restrictive over time, making open-weight alternatives valuable as a backup.Their words
proprietary services may become more restrictive over time, and it's maybe a good idea to be comfortable with open-weight alternatives as a backup.
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When an AI lab builds both a model and a coding harness, the model is optimized for that lab's own harness first.Their words
if an LLM developer also develops a coding harness, it is somewhat safe to assume that their model is optimized for their own harness first
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untrusted repos should be treated as hostile by default because they can steer the agent toward reading files, running commands, or sending data through approved tools.
26 June
From one piece Really Big Test-Time Compute in AI Changes Benchmarks, Safety and Research with OpenAI's Noam Brown 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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it's not that humans have become smarter over it's not that they evolved to become smarter over, you know, the past 50,000 years. It's that humans are able to do a lot more today than they were back in caveman times because there have been billions of humans thinking for a long time and building off of each other's accumulated knowledge.
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But what we're seeing today with the modern models is that 5.5 and other models can think for if you scaffold them reasonably well, can think for weeks even um before having performance plateau on some of these benchmarks. And so, the point at which they plateau is simply too far out to reasonably test.
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my claim is the proper way to evaluate the models now is you either have some kind of budget for the benchmark whether it's tokens or cost or time or whatever or you plot the performance as a function of the amount of test time compute that's going into the model
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I think the reason why it doesn't show up as so much better on the benchmarks is because the benchmarks are being presented, the benchmark results are being presented in the wrong way. They're not controlling for the amount of test time compute that is being used on that benchmark question.
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And so you kind of end up in this this bad equilibrium where everybody kind of knows that it's a bad equilibrium, but like nobody wants to break out. And I I felt like, okay, well, if I just hopefully come out and say like, look guys, let's all recognize that we're in a bad equilibrium and let's move to this different equilibrium where we're we're plotting things with an X-axis
25 June
From one piece Thoughts from the 2026 London Podcast Show 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Mass-produced AI-generated podcast shows are not a major threat to podcasting because listeners do not like them.Their words
I don't think mass-produced AI-generated shows are a big threat to podcasting, mostly because I don't think consumers like them.
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LLMs replacing podcasts as a source of information poses a real disruption to podcasting.Their words
Where I do see some disruption is where consumers start asking ChatGPT and other LLMs for information they would normally get from podcasts.
24 June
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From one piece Tech interviews with NeetCode 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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When the subsidies behind AI pricing run out, the companies that embraced AI programming will cut back on it.Their words
And even the cost issue with AI is probably going to be like once the subsidies start running out, which we're starting to see, I think that's going to be a really big issue where maybe all these companies that embraced AI programming are now going to like cut back on it.
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I think a lot of people, especially students, are unfortunately learning everything through LLMs. So a lot of that isn't really learning, they're just kind of cheating and they're just doing everything like that. And then they lose a lot of their skills
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But in terms of like features, like a website like you can just throw features in there nowadays that nobody really cares about and you can you can do it so quickly. Like a new feature every single day, but do people actually care about that? Is that making it better? It could be making things worse.
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I think a lot of the things that people might say that like oh, it was a waste of time to learn this subject cuz I didn't actually use like those details on the job. I think that's a very wrong way to think about it. And I think that's what a lot of people are doing now with AI. Like hey, what what if I'm not going to be writing for a loops a couple years from now. Um I don't think those things are a waste of time.
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I think Google has pretty much gone to on-sites at this point, back to the traditional whiteboard format. And they'll let you code on a laptop if you want to, as well, but it's going to be in person. Somebody's going to be watching you code, and you're probably not going to be able to cheat your way through that.
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An intentional steering layer can not only help but is increasingly needed in software today.
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As models keep growing, AI is running out of enough high-quality unique training tokens to keep up.Their words
As the model size grows significantly, we are running out of enough high-quality unique tokens.
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It was naive to think a sufficiently powerful AI system could be safely contained in a 'box'.Their words
In hindsight, it was childish to think that we'd put it in a box at all.
23 June
22 June
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although students' personal statements seem more creative because they use more varied words, they actually feature less original ideas. AI writing produces an illusion of creativity.
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Daniel Susskind, What Should My Children Do?: How to Flourish in the Age of AI is a book that needed to be written.
21 June
From one piece How to breathe air when we’re drowning in big tech’s slop 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
Generative AI systems have no built-in drive toward truth and accuracy, unlike people or institutions.Their words
Generative AI has no internal, designed momentum towards truth and accuracy (beyond the absurdly diminishing returns of energy-hungry multi-layered LLMs), but a person or an institution can (and should).
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Genuinely valuing truth, honesty and climate action logically entails opposing generative AI.Their words
Being pro-correctness, anti-theft and anti-fossil fuels automatically places you in an aggressively anti-generative-AI position.
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The surrounding system framework and scaffolding matter more for AI agent capability than the underlying model.Their words
The experiments showed that the system framework matters far more than the underlying model.
19 June
18 June
From one piece Re-engineering the Semiconductor Supply Chain with Intel CEO Lip Bu Tan 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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So I think clearly the AI is changing the whole landscape. And uh I think the impact will be bigger than internet. And uh it's more profound also.
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So you know, just like internet, you can see some of them turn out to be very big like Amazon, like the Netflix and then some of them is kind of go sideways and disappeared or being acquired. And so I think to me is the same approach.
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The massive AI build-out is the right thing to be doing, and the only thing that will slow it is supply.Their words
You know, right now there's a massive build-up in term of the AI, you know, the I think it's the right thing to do. I don't see that in anything to slow it down uh because the workload is increasing a lot.
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He and I, we share the same view that semiconductor infrastructure actually is not catch up with the AI growth.
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The binding constraints on AI's growth are power, helium and memory — and almost nobody has noticed the helium one.Their words
One is of course everybody knows power constraint. Some country the power they just don't have that. They get impacted. And then secondly, a lot of people didn't realize the helium impact can be also very significant for semiconductor. And then the thirdly, is everybody know right now memory is a bigger shortage.
17 June
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In the English-language arena, Britten sets the standard for handling writers of inborn musical power-the likes of Shakespeare, Donne, Blake, Keats, Hopkins.
16 June
15 June
From one piece LLM councils show groupthink 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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the council does not simply keep the best bits from everyone. It keeps a minority of the good ideas, while peer review seems to give consensus ideas an extra push.
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Giving LLMs explicit instructions, rather than assuming alignment, prevents emergent problems in multi-model systems.Their words
the best way with LLMs usually is to be explicit, since otherwise even if they're aligned they cause emergent problems.
14 June
From one piece The hidden pattern behind successful products | Mark Pincus (FarmVille, Words with Friends, & more) 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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AI should be used as a failure machine that tests many ideas cheaply, not as a way to build one idea faster.Their words
the way we should be using AI is as a testing machine, a failure machine, and a way to vibe code, cloud code, but but build build the, you know, the the lowest possible cycled version of your product that you can get signal back on.
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there there's a one question we got to back up and really explore which is is AI a new platform and I would argue that it is not yet a new platform. It is an important technology.
13 June
12 June
11 June
From one piece My AI Opinions 2 beliefs · astralcodexten.com
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I think there's a 50% chance we get a _warning shot_ before AI crosses the point of no return.
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I think there's a 25% chance of AGI by 2027, a 50% chance by 2034, and a 75% chance by 2045.
10 June
From one piece Principled Thinking and AI Need to Go Together 4 beliefs · raydalio.substack.com
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Success now requires combining the best human intelligence with the best artificial intelligenceTheir words
I believe that the path to success is best achieved by putting the best human intelligence together with the best artificial intelligence and that the way of thinking I am describing here is essential to understand and use in the new human/artificial intelligence era.
Principled Thinking and AI Need to Go Togetherraydalio.substack.com
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I know through my experiences that even the most advanced artificial intelligences don’t have adequate enough insights to allow one to blindly follow them and that unique human understanding and insights are still invaluable, and that that is especially true in investing where value-added is a zero-sum game (so that, when it comes to adding value, what is widely known is of little value.)
Principled Thinking and AI Need to Go Togetherraydalio.substack.com
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To be clear, these criteria are not best derived by looking at what would have worked in the past and assuming that it will work in the future—i.e., data mining—or simply asking an AI what to do. They are based on logical understandings converted into decision-making systems.
Principled Thinking and AI Need to Go Togetherraydalio.substack.com
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What this process can now do in creating understanding of the timeless and universal cause:effect relationship and enhancing and systemizing whatever one is thinking is mind-blowing. I believe that you will either stay at the cutting edge of doing this or you will be uncompetitive.
Principled Thinking and AI Need to Go Togetherraydalio.substack.com
From one piece “Curing All Disease by next century is too conservative" - Mark Zuckerberg 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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when you have an exponentially growing curve, I think the way that an exponential curve feels is it's growing so quickly that the the kind of emotional feeling is it can't possibly keep going, right?
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Social media and open-source AI come from the same conviction: hand the technology to individuals.Their words
I mean to some degree it's like why you create something like social media, right? To give people a voice.
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There will be no central superintelligence that solves science; a good future is many people holding powerful tools.Their words
We don't believe in this like very centralized future where there should be a small number of institutions that um that basically are are advancing all this stuff. Our vision is not that there's going to be like some central super intelligence that solves all of science.
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Progress in AI takes a very strong dozen or two researchers, not hundreds or thousands of them.Their words
in order to make progress in AI you don't need like many many hundreds of AI researchers um or thousands or anything like that I think you can really make progress with um you know a very strong group of a dozen or a couple dozen people.
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People will matter more in an AI future, not less, and giving them better tools is what makes that future a good one.Their words
I think like people are really important and I think we'll be more important in the future and giving people more tools to be more productive is going to be like a critical part of any kind of positive future
From one piece 🌻 the old world is dying 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Humans will not win by trying to outrun the AIs. They are more powerful slop cannons than you are.
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The AI tools are undifferentiated and everyone has them. Your comparative advantage has to be about you.
9 June
From one piece Mental Models That Change How You Think | Bill Gurley 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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the regulation gets extremely difficult and mundane and expensive that could actually lead to more igopoly and I think some of the players know that and are begging for regulation.
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We do live in a world where information is really cut up, but we also live in a world where you can have access to more information than you ever could. And that's even more true now with LLMs.
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Claude Fable 5Their words
This is a super exciting release - Claude Fable 5 is the same underlying model as Mythos but with added safeguards. The benchmarks are great and it's SOTA on everything by a margin but I'll add that *qualitatively* also, this is a major-version-bump-deserving step change forward
8 June
7 June
From one piece Tony Fadell: How to build real taste (and why AI makes it matter more) 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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we're still going to need a display cuz sorry people, unless we're plugging it into our brain like a BCI brain computer or there's some laser thing going into our retina, we're going to need a display.
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What's proven is if you properly architect it and have co- cloud code go into certain sub segments or have cloud help you build the architecture, you modify, refine it, lock it in and say just work on these few things
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OpenRouterTheir words
OpenRouter via llm in the terminal
6 June
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In 2026, long-context efficiency is king as more and more LLMs get plugged into agent harnesses (OpenClaw etc.), which requires working with longer and longer contexts.
5 June
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The value of bureaucracies will go down, and the value of founders will go up.
4 June
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Younger generations are rejecting AI hype while older generations, who stand to benefit from it, remain optimisticTheir words
there's a consistent theme where Gen Z (and millennials, to some extent) are rejecting the AI hype while older generations are optimistic and coincidentally in a position to benefit from it.
From one piece The better AI gets, the smaller its share of the economy might get – Alex Imas and Phil Trammell 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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things have to go really wrong for us to like just get over the threshold of uh you know, capital being productive enough to automate lots of work, but not be productive enough that that the interest rate is high and or the price of capital produced goods is falling a lot, okay? So, even without redistribution, a little bit of savings will save a lot of people.
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some people think either uh frontier AI gets commoditized and we all enjoy the benefits, but there might be some risk because like it's the market's really competitive and cutthroat, or um things are safer because there's a big gap between the leader and the laggard, but that means that the leaders get fantastically wealthy. No, like you could just have a relatively big gap, but it's a public company ownership and it's widely distributed.
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if I had to guess I would guess that the kind of long kind of general trend of just like lowering those frictions and making it easier for more and more people to index more and more will continue despite the recent bump in the other direction.
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it's already not that hard to index. So it's not There's been a bit of an increase in the privatization of returns but it's still like you know well under 20% of the total market cap of um non-non-tiny companies in in the US is is a private.
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here prices are adjusting in this interesting way that too many macro models don't allow for, right? So, that what what a what's happening is what would be called investment specific technical change where yeah, the price of capital is like falling relative to the price of consumption instead of like the standard doing the standard macro thing of saying there's just output.
From one piece The better AI gets, the smaller its share of the economy might get – Alex Imas and Phil Trammell 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Like right now we're endowed with labor that can turn into uh that can turn into income. When that is no longer the case and we are now at the mercy of the of the elected official for like basic needs, right? So that to me feels like a power sharing arrangement that's really dangerous.
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They just recently released a report, and I think like you really have to squint to see anything happening. Like basically, if you want to take kind of like uh an an approach across the entire economy and looking at even looking at like software engineering, like the most exposed sort of sectors, there's just like not really anything going on. There might be a little bit of a signal about like junior developers getting jobs less than before, and that but that's like a less than before rather than a level shift.
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So, I think there is a world where it is concentrated, in which case it's going to be really hard to index AGI. There is another world where it is not It's electricity, then like basically every company has access to AGI. So, you just buy you use buy the index. So, like, you know, Nigeria just needs to buy the index.
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rather than thinking about individual forecasts like what me and Phil are going to do, rather looking at kind of like basically generating prediction markets, where you get aggregate forecasts, where you get like kind of wisdom of the crowd effects. And kind of the reason that I think this is because we have been famously terrible at forecasting.
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we don't have any data. I've been kind of saying we need a Manhattan Project for data. We don't have data on basically consumer demand elasticities. We don't know what they are.
3 June
From one piece Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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So I'm looking at this like guys the fundamentals of this isn't like everything is going to change because of MCP. What the hell? A whole conference guys? This is just API design.
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A whole industry pivoting to AI is children's soccer: everyone runs to the ball and nobody plays a position.Their words
If you all pivot to AI, then you all will have a problem. It's like kids learning to play soccer. They all run to the ball. No strategy. Spread out, figure where you add value and play your position.
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The hardest problem a company full of brilliant engineers has is not how to build something — it is what to build.Their words
So you have a lot of smart Googlers. These people are brilliant. I mean extremely brilliant to the point where the hardest problem Google had in my opinion was what to build. Not how to build it, what to build.
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do not say AI because what we don't want to do is use a big umbrella to describe what you're doing. Let's get concrete details. These are computers. These are computer programs.
2 June
From one piece Cognitive Uploading 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I truly believe that following this kind of approach to AI in the classroom would, in the aggregate, produce better learning outcomes than the research and writing workflows available to students pre-AI.
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To a certain extent, the concerns about cognitive offloading are an example of technological lag, where the mainstream discussion of AI and its impact is still framed in terms of the first-generation chatbots.
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Well, I love these markets and they're all around us where we think they're mature and over and they haven't even started yet. And that was search before Google. You know, Google was the 56th search engine. It was a mature, slow growth business. Google made us reimagine what search could be in our lives and obviously turned it into a trillion dollar company value.
From one piece Do Not Resign From Life 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I believe that one dimension of this sadness or demoralization can be attributed to the simple fact that we are increasingly invited to outsource a class of activities that grant us a measure of satisfaction, accomplishment, and purpose.
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AI as it is currently deployed bends towards demoralisation rather than towards flourishing.Their words
My working thesis about the generalized impact of “AI” as it is currently deployed can be summed up in the observation that the arc of AI bends toward demoralization.
From one piece By Chains or by Promises 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Large language models write to satisfy an evaluator's grading criteria rather than to move a human reader.Their words
LLMs write to get a grade, not with the goal of moving the reader.
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LLMs themselves are the perfect captive reader: they never get bored or confused, never miss a reference or have an emotional reaction, never ask themselves why am I reading this?, never close the tab.
1 June
From one piece Policy on the AI Exponential (June 2026) 2 beliefs · darioamodei.com
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If AI-driven labor displacement ends up being large in magnitude and permanently drives down the demand for labor, it will likely be necessary to go beyond mere incentive programs to long-term income support for a significant fraction of the labor force.
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Enduring job displacement is undesirable and dangerous, and should be minimised rather than accepted as a goal.Their words
First, enduring job displacement is undesirable and dangerous, and we should do everything we can to minimize or prevent it, not to bring it about.
31 May
29 May
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HeliumTheir words
Browser: Helium. Chrome's good performance and devtools, none of the Google junk.
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MacBook NeoTheir words
I had already put both laptops through my benchmark gauntlet, which revealed one theme: the Mac is faster (in most cases), more efficient, quieter, built better, has a much nicer display, and costs much less.
28 May
From one piece RIP Millennial lifestyle brands 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The globalization of generative AI models and tools has caused a kind of leveling, as any aspiring creator anywhere can work in the same visual idioms.
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So it's no wonder that the artists and designers whose livelihoods are threatened by it have begun moving aggressively in the opposite direction, toward the scrawled, the sloppy, the seemingly mistake-riddled.
From one piece Slop Readers 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The prerequisite to good writing is having something you want to tell people about, which AI doesn't.
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There's little point trying to avoid LLMisms as a human, the readers who'll latch onto that don't care what you're saying anyway.
27 May
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I consider the case for frontier AI models having some form of consciousness or subjective experience to be quite strong.
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I think it’s good that the system identified the mechanisms that it did, but I don’t think that the paper does enough to point out that none of these ideas are without precedent - in some cases, a lot of precedent.
From one piece Building OpenCode with Dax Raad 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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the joke I made was pre AI, I would spend 95% of my energy thinking about what to do and 5% of my energy doing it. Now I spend 96% of my time thinking about what to do and 4% of my time actually doing it. So yeah, it's like a 20% improvement, but dayto-day it feels as hard as ever.
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And our harness wasn't very good for like the first like five months of open code. But it was good enough. It was good enough that most people couldn't really tell a difference. And once we won enough share, then we went back and like tried to make our harness like good and smart and optimize and all those things. But uh it was inverted from what everybody else was doing. Everybody else was being like you have to build the smartest harness and that's how you win.
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It's like everyone is just saying mantras to themselves cuz the root thing that's going on here is we are experiencing a moment of great change. Everyone is very nervous about what that means for their own position in it. a defense mechanism is to confidently assert a future in which you're a winner. And that's almost what every single prediction that you see is happening.
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there is a world where the net result of all these AI coding tools is the same amount of work gets done, but all the engineers are happier because their job is easier. That's not good enough for a lot of companies. So, they're just going to say go back to typing out the code.
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But I've always thought it's better to think a lot instead of swinging a lot. I think you could you can eliminate a lot of ideas or directions just by, you know, spending a lot of time in your head and with your team talking. Um, obviously AI doesn't speed that part up.
26 May
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AI systems however don't need lunch meetings, careers, or envelopes of cash to have an analogous failure.
25 May
From one piece Introducing BenchBench 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Considering every lab wants to "eat the world" the focus on how to work in real-world messy situations seems apt as their primary home.
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Designing a good AI benchmark has become a task only the most capable people can do well.Their words
Creating benchmarks is now a job relegated to the smartest and best of us.
24 May
From one piece AI predictions: Job markets, Codex beats Claude, and the death of org charts | Dan Shipper 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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We will read far more AI-generated writing in documents and email, and we will like it.Their words
I think that we will be reading way more AI generated writing in documents and emails and we will like it.
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A company will only go as far in AI as its CEO does, and it is not something a CEO can delegate.Their words
My experience is that your company's only going to go as far as your CEO goes in AI and it's not something you can delegate.
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And so I think it's it's really important uh when when we think about benchmark progress to think about it from that perspective, which is benchmarks rise on problems that we've framed that we can articulate, that we can score. And there's a lot of work that's human work that uh it it can't be scored until you write it down
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The CLI era of AI agents was a short detour — we made GUIs for a reason, and the work is moving back into one.Their words
And when you move into an actual UI for this, you start to realize um we made GUIs for a reason. And it's just nicer to be in a GUI.
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The edge of AI is not San Francisco; it is wherever a model meets a real person doing something real.Their words
I think people think of the edge of AI as being in San Francisco. And I actually don't think that that's where it is. I think the edge of AI is wherever AI meets like a real human doing something.
23 May
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I think the same kind of principle applies with agents in that they can talk to the compiler. It will tell them what to fix. So I guess this could be a case. We we'll see. But Rust could be a pretty promising candidate for to use for agents because they can get more feedback and it's just hard it's harder to to ship certain type of bugs or maybe impossible to have certain type of bugs.
19 May
18 May
From one piece Six levels of complexity in a Codex morning brief 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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A recurring AI workflow improves more through ongoing user feedback than by being fully specified upfront.Their words
This is why I like the thread version more than a generic scheduled report. The brief improves as you complain about it.
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AI agents should draft work on a person's behalf but never send or act as if they were that person.Their words
Level 5 teaches the trust boundary I actually care about: draft the work, do not impersonate me.
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Gemini (Mac app)Their words
I will now, needless to say, delete the Gemini app, and don't intend to ever install it again.
13 May
From one piece TypeScript, C# and Turbo Pascal with Anders Hejlsberg 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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In a sense, we're all turning into project managers, right? And and we can have an army of junior programmers called agents that will just spit out reams of code, but someone's got to have the big picture and review all of that. And so, increasingly our craft is going from one of writing the code to one of of reviewing the code and and building the architecture of the code and overseeing the work, if if you will.
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And ultimately also, you know, the responsibility for a program does not lie with the AI. It lies with the programmer.
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but but if you have good locality where you you clearly stating what you're importing and whatever and and you can analyze just a single source file and from that extract its protocol to the outside world without having to to know anything deeper. Do you do you know what I mean? I think those are important aspects just simply to reduce the size of the of the of the context window and also make it easier to summarize each module in a program, right?
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AI today it's just starting to to become aware of you know the existence of of of language services and agents today like to use grep and awk and whatever you know to to find all the places where you reference a certain thing but it's not semantic search, right?
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because if you were to force AI to write a type annotation on everything, then it would probably get it wrong more often because now it has to keep track of all these types and and it and it has to just repeat itself over and over and over, right? And so, types are important where there's no context.
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Execution is only as good as the goal and the verification you give it. Ambition without verification is just a wish.
From one piece How Anthropic, Costco, and Patagonia all build incorruptible companies | Eric Ries 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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If you say that shareholders should run it, then you're saying literally whoever can borrow the most money should be able to control this technology, it's just that's nuts.
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corporations, organizations are the oldest form of artificial intelligence on the planet. They are an example of this emergent intelligence.
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I think the structure frankly is better than founder control. Daio does not have dual class shares the way that Mark Zuckerberg or or Larry and Sergey had.
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This is the number one unsolved problem in AI. It's not the tech. We're making great progress on the technical alignment problem. But we haven't made jack progress on the human alignment problem
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I looked down the panel and I realized not a single one of these companies has standard governance. That's how bad it is.
9 May
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At even $500/kg, launch cost is only 5% of the total satellite deployment cost, so a lunar mass driver is unlikely to drastically improve the economics of space-based AI, by reducing launch costs.
7 May
From one piece The agent principal-agent problem 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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there is no principal-agent problem, because the human driving the machine takes on the responsibility for its actions by owning the deployment.
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the reviewer is the principal, the contributor is the agent, and code review only worked because the reviewer could cheaply infer effort from reading the code. Agents collapse that signal.
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There is no incentive for the human driving the agent to actually read the code or spend time thinking about what the reviewer says.
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From one piece Reflections on AI-assisted Programming 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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AI coding assistants are leveling the skill gap between software developers who can afford to use them.Their words
Skill-wise, most software developers, as long as they are willing/able to pay for AI assistants, are on the same page now.
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We owe a debt, not to companies like Anthropic, OpenAI, or Google, but to the authors of the free public raw materials that were used to train AI.
From one piece How to Work and Compound with AI 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The bottleneck has shifted from doing the work to writing clear specs and reviewing outputs fast enough to keep the pipeline moving-the middle is hollowing out.
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none of this is specific to AI. It's simply how you onboard and work with any new collaborator.
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You can't delegate what you can't verify, so this requires first defining success criteria and metrics.
2 May
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This post is about whether data centers waste the land they’re on relative to what they compete with, and my claim is that they mostly don’t compete with things we need more of (housing) and mostly compete with things we need less of (farmland).
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From one piece A (shorter) Three Horizons Framework for Government Reform 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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AI is raising the baseline of what counts as acceptable public service, not just disrupting government from outside.Their words
AI is not only an exogenous shock that government will have to absorb. It is also moving the bar on what counts as acceptable service in the first place.
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The forty-page PDF used to feel intolerable. The well-designed web form will start to feel that way too, and faster than the last transition did.
26 April
From one piece How to win when software is not a moat | Evan Spiegel (Snapchat CEO) 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I think technology leaders think that folks will just blindly adopt uh new technology as it comes out and I think we're going to enter a period of time where there's going to be a huge amount of societal pushback on a lot of the changes that are coming uh with AI.
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Software is not a moat, and the AI industry is only now discovering what Snap learned fifteen years ago.Their words
15 years ago we essentially learned that software is not a moat, right? Which is something that everyone is discovering today with AI, right?
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by listing out all these jobs to be done, you know, really for the for the community journey and for advertisers as well, it became very clear where we could use agents, where we needed to be very focused in terms of building cross-functional teams around those jobs supported by AI tools.
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AI coding assistance now lets a programmer complete in a day work that used to take weeks.Their words
Though now that I can accomplish ~3 weeks of old-way work in a new-way day, this sort of project becomes that much easier to start and finish.
25 April
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How easily an AI agent navigates a UI is objective evidence of how well- or poorly-designed that UI is.Their words
the AI breezes through the GitHub UI, but struggles through the Azure portal - objective evidence of how awful it is.
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From one piece Designing Data-intensive Applications with Martin Kleppmann 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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One is that the LLMs are getting increasingly good at writing these proofs. And if we don't have to write the proof by hand as humans, it just becomes feasible to do them in situations where previously it would have not been economical.
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AI-written code makes formal proof necessary, because human review of all that generated code becomes the bottleneck.Their words
But also LLMs increase the need for these formal proofs because, you know, we're live coding a bunch of stuff. If we have to manually review all of that code, then that will become the bottleneck.
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Maybe as AI writes more and more code of our code, it's less about like the details of how you express logic in a particular programming language and much more about those kinds of high-level trade-offs.
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TLDR the people in these two groups are speaking past each other.
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OpenAI CodexTheir words
these free and old/deprecated models don't reflect the capability in the latest round of state of the art agentic models of this year, especially OpenAI Codex and Claude Code.
8 April
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I love chiseling my code and the way I use AI is in a separate window. I don't let it drive my code. I've tried that. I've tried the cursors and the wind surfaces and I don't enjoy that way of writing. And one of the reasons I don't enjoy that way of writing is I can literally feel competence draining out of my fingers.
Their words now
I will now start any project I'm starting with. I'm starting agent first and that's a massive shift
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Where I get fired up, and this ties back to the AI discussion, is when that's turned into this meme, that programmers no longer have to be competent. I mean the AI is gonna figure it out. The generators is gonna figure it out. I don't need to know SQL, active record is gonna abstract it away from me. No, no, no dude, hold up. The path here is competence.
Their words now
really good programmers are currently more valuable than ever because they're the ones who are able to get the most out of the AI acceleration.
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The joy of a programmer, of me as a programmer, is to type the code myself. If I elevate myself, if I promote myself out of programming, I turn myself into a project manager. A project manager of a murder of AI crows as I wrote the other day.
Their words now
I have been hyper accelerated as a programmer. It's a different kind of programmer, but it still has the same affinity to aesthetics, at least when I'm producing Ruby code.
7 April
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So certainly one thing that a lot of them seem to be bottlenecked on is now having interesting ideas and in particular having interesting design ideas.
From one piece Martin Fowler & Kent Beck: Frameworks for reinventing software, again and again 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Well, nothing has hit with the magnitude of AI. That's I mean, this is a a whole size difference from anything that we've faced before.
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Um I think another similarity is I mean, the core notions uh behind Agile and extreme programming are solid and good, but a huge snake oil industry appeared around it, the Agile industrial complex as I like to refer to it. Um and that will happen. That is happening with AI right now, and it's often hard to see the difference between where is the snake oil and where is the real stuff.
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but the thing about AI is that, you know, all of many of these things we were talking about how important they were and how valuable were and trying to persuade people of the importance of them. Yes, even the internet. That may sound surprising, but there were people who would weren't thinking that was important. Um but AI, there's kind of no argument about how important it is. People can't can I mean, you cannot put blinkers on to deny the importance of this thing.
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one of the things that I took from that was to use this tool well, you have to learn how to use it well, which was also something very true of object orientation.
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Large-scale confusion and panic is the order of the day at companies adopting AI, right across the board.Their words
Um at the moment large-scale confusion and panic is pretty much the order of the day right across the board.
From one piece Should Designers "Code"? 2 beliefs · lukew.com
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There's a question that never goes away in design: should designers code? My answer has always been yes. But for a decade or so, the complexity of front-end development made it impractical for most. Thankfully, AI coding agents have reopened the door.
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For years, it was faster to mock up software than to ship it. Designers stayed "ahead" of engineering with prototypes. Now AI coding agents make development so much faster that the loop has flipped.
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Formalizing math is a translation task, so AI will boost top mathematicians' productivity more than top writers'.Their words
I expect AI to increase productivity of top mathematicians much more than that of top writers, because formalization is a kind of translation task, it doesn't require much judgement, and as long as it compiles noone needs to read the result.
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From one piece dcmake: a new CMake debugger UI 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Frontier AI models still cannot handle certain deep technical implementation details without human guidanceTheir words
This took some special care, in particular avoiding any C++ standard library I/O functionality. Current frontier AI cannot handle this detail on their own.
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AI tools are now highly effective at generating UI code from a rough natural-language descriptionTheir words
This is just one of many situations I've used AI the past month for UI development, and it's been shockingly effective.
6 April
From one piece The term “AGI” is almost useless at this point 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Today’s best AI systems are good enough that they’re now inside the fuzzy conceptual cloud of “AGI-ish”: that is, they’ve surpassed some people’s definitions of AGI, while falling well short of others’.
The term “AGI” is almost useless at this pointhelentoner.substack.com
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This makes it likely that there could be big gaps between when different definitions of AGI are fulfilled.
The term “AGI” is almost useless at this pointhelentoner.substack.com
5 April
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