Tag: Creativity
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AI’s Relentless Proactivity
relentless proactivity is the defining trait of this new generation of Mythos-class models. If you set them a goal and give them a way to get there, even inadvertently, they will figure it out. — Read on simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/22/openai-cyberattack/
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Understand to participate
You can learn what the agent is doing to make sure you can be an active participant in the creative process. […] You need a rich set of concepts in your mind to think creatively and fluently about how to move something forward. If you’re lacking that fluency, your ability to participate in the project…
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Quirky table tennis equipment promotes “more creative” play
Exercice has installed a set of unconventional table tennis tables at a school in France to encourage children to make up their own rules. — Read on www.dezeen.com/2026/03/27/quirky-table-tennis-equipment-french-school/
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What major works of literature were written after age of 85? 75? 65?!
Unless an author makes a major stylistic turn later in their career, I can’t imagine any new work being favorably compared against the earlier work that established the style and sounded so fresh. On the other hand, it’s not always the first work that is considered the best. It can still take time to perfect…
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Claude Code starter projects
jasmine sun on X: “@TheStalwart yeah I made a list of Claude Code starter projects and “visualize a random CSV” is #1 or you can export and visualize your own data — iMessage, Goodreads, etc! https://t.co/UAnJMsCK1q” / X — Read on x.com/jasminewsun/status/2015495431737029085
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Blind to the solutions we were never taught to see
Programmers are trained to see everything as a software-shaped problem: if you do a task three times, you should probably automate it with a script. Rename every IMG_*.jpg file from the last week to hawaii2025_*.jpg, they tell their terminal, while the rest of us painfully click and copy-paste. We are blind to the solutions we…
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10 things I learned from burning myself out with AI coding agents – Ars Technica
with LLMs, context is everything, and in language, context changes meaning. Take the word “bank” and add the words “river” or “central” in front of it, and see how the meaning changes. In a way, words act as addresses that unlock the semantic relationships encoded in a neural network. So if you put “checkerboard” and…
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The hard part: A quote from Jason Gorman
The hard part of computer programming isn’t expressing what we want the machine to do in code. The hard part is turning human thinking — with all its wooliness and ambiguity and contradictions — into computational thinking that is logically precise and unambiguous, and that can then be expressed formally in the syntax of a…
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Kubrick on Lessons from Chess
think before grabbing, — Read on x.com/FischerKing64/status/1998785412559720910
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Pluralistic: The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI (05 Dec 2025)
In automation theory, a “centaur” is a person who is assisted by a machine. You’re a human head being carried around on a tireless robot body. Driving a car makes you a centaur, and so does using autocomplete. And obviously, a reverse centaur is machine head on a human body, a person who is serving as a…