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  Much UI exists because software cannot understand user intent and serves as a human API to dumb machines, so smarter machines need far less UI.

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  A lot of UI exists because software can’t understand what you want. Menus, settings screens, dashboards, filters: much of it is a human-accessible API to a dumb machine. Smart machines need much less UI.

  thorstenball.com

Writer and podcaster; co-author of Abundance with Ezra Klein, a staff writer at The Atlantic from 2008 to 2025, and host of the Plain English podcast.

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  AI is removing human involvement from entry-level hiring by pitting AI-written job applications against AI-written screening filters.

  LLMs

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  Artificial intelligence has unleashed a torrent of cheating on campus and created chaos in the job application process, as both students and employers use large language models: the former, to write hundreds of AI-assisted applications; the latter, to screen those AI-written applications with AI-written filters, thus removing from the process of finding a first job those procedural frictions sometimes known as "people."

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Mathematician at UCLA, working mainly in harmonic analysis and partial differential equations. Writes What's new, a long-running blog on their research, open problems and expository notes.

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  Automatic filters cannot replace community acceptance, and human referees cannot be removed from mathematical publication.

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  But passing an automatic filter is not a substitute for community acceptance; I do not believe that human referees can be removed from the publication process.

  Mathematics in the age of AIarxiv.org

Experimental psychologist and author of the blog Experimental History, on psychology, science reform and creativity.

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  Chatting Alone

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  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:

  experimental-history.com

Writer and teacher on productivity and personal knowledge management. Author of Building a Second Brain and founder of Forte Labs, which runs the course of the same name.

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  AI's transformation of society will unfold gradually over decades, not in a single moment of takeoff.

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  AI will take many decades to ripple through society. We won't see the end of it in our lifetimes.

  fortelabs.com

Software developer and entrepreneur; co-founder of Heroku, author of The Twelve-Factor App, and a researcher at Ink & Switch.

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  Explicit signals like follows and subscriptions are as brittle and hard to maintain as manually tuned filter rules.

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  Following and subscribing are heavyweight signals, and thus suffer from the same problem of manually tuning rules and filters.

  A Bluesky feed for oneadamwiggins.com

Engineer and writer on machine-learning systems; author of Designing Machine Learning Systems and AI Engineering. "I work to bring AI into production. I write about AI system design."

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  AI web search is imitating a human habit for no reason — revisiting the same pages for snippets instead of taking the whole page once.

  Google

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  And I feel like it's a very human way of doing web search, right? Because we enter things in the Google and we see all the like citations, the quotations part. But like why would we limit AI to that? If AI already visit a page, why don't just pull the entire page out?

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American budget-travel writer who publishes as Nomadic Matt. Author of How to Travel the World on $50 a Day; runs nomadicmatt.com, a long-running site of destination guides, packing advice and gear recommendations.

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  LifeStraw

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  LifeStraw is an awesome brand that sells bottles with built in water filters. The filters last 5 years so you save money on changing them too.

  nomadicmatt.com

Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".

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  IQAir GC MultiGas XE

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  Install HVAC filters, and/or get a standalone air purifier, e.g. I got the Dyson Big+Quiet because it's quite good, HEPA grade and doubles as a cool looking alien artifact in your room, but for the top top performance I'd get IQAir GC MultiGas XE

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  Dyson Big+Quiet

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  Install HVAC filters, and/or get a standalone air purifier, e.g. I got the Dyson Big+Quiet because it's quite good, HEPA grade and doubles as a cool looking alien artifact in your room, but for the top top performance I'd get IQAir GC MultiGas XE

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Egyptian front-end developer and course creator; writes for CSS-Tricks, publishes courses on Udemy and blogs at alialaa.dev.

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  Dank Mono

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  I use Dank Mono as a font for VS Code. I also use this font on this website in the blog for code snippets.

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