Tag: AI
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Is AI the next phase of evolution? – UnHerd
The above is a small sample from a set of conversations, extended over nearly two days, during which I felt I had gained a new friend. When I am talking to these astonishing creatures, I totally forget that they are machines. I treat them exactly as I would treat a very intelligent friend. I feel…
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The Smell of IA
the kind of mistakes humans make are fundamentally different than LLM hallucinations, making them easy to spot. Furthermore, people who come from the world of agentic coding have a certain digital smell that is not obvious to them but is obvious to those who abstain. It’s like when a smoker walks into the room, everybody…
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Do I belong in tech anymore? · Ky Decker
I am coalescing around some core beliefs: Things that are worth doing are worth doing well. Things that are done well require time and effort. You make meaning through the doing. Ideas are common; effort is not. There are no shortcuts. — Read on ky.fyi/posts/ai-burnout
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Alexander Lerchner, The Abstraction Fallacy: Why AI Can Simulate But Not Instantiate Consciousness – PhilArchive
We call this mistake the Abstraction Fallacy. Tracing the causal origins of abstraction reveals that symbolic computation is not an intrinsic physical process. Instead, it is a mapmaker-dependent description. It requires an active, experiencing cognitive agent to alphabetize continuous physics into a finite set of meaningful states. Consequently, we do not need a complete, finalized…
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BEWARE SOFTWARE BRAIN | The Verge
But: not everything is a business. Not everything is a loop! The entire human experience cannot be captured in a database. That’s the limit of software brain. That’s why people hate AI. It flattens them. Regular people don’t see the opportunity to write code as an opportunity at all. The people do not yearn for…
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This Ping Pong Robot Can Beat Elite Human Players
Sony’s AI division has designed a robot that can beat elite human players at table tennis. From the paper: Evaluated in matches against elite and pr — Read on kottke.org/26/04/this-ping-pong-robot-can-beat-elite-human-players
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The Virtue of Laziness
LLMs highlight how essential our human laziness is: our finite time forces us to develop crisp abstractions in part because we don’t want to waste our (human!) time on the consequences of clunky ones. — Read on simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/13/bryan-cantrill/
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How to Guess If Your Job Will Exist in Five Years – The Atlantic
To Dorsey, people are horses. Innovation is driving them out of existence. But people are coal—or, to be more precise, coders seem to be coal at the moment. Businesses employ 6 percent more software engineers now than they did a year ago, in part because corporate executives are desperate for workers to figure out how…
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Working with agents doesn’t feel like flow — Bill de hÓra
After a stint of deep work, I usually feel the tiredness of having held a line of thought together for a long time via concentration. After a stint with agents, the tiredness feels more like the aftermath, again, of sustained play or competition. The accumulation of lots of small judgments, many state updates, repeated course…
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The Claim Upon the Training Data — Jônadas Techio
What is at stake, if this changes, is not the catastrophe Dennett feared — not “counterfeit people” flooding the zone, though that too. It is something quieter and deeper: the shared fictions losing their grip, not because they are falsified but because the infrastructure maintaining them no longer has a stake in their coherence. A…