AI

What does all this mean? If you're a programmer, you should already be exploring these tools. If you're programming-adjacent (an academic who works with data, a designer who wants to experiment with code, anyone who wants to try building a thing they are imagining) this is your moment to experiment. But there's a deeper point here: with the right... See more

The future of AI isn’t just about better models. It’s about people figuring out what to do with them.

They’re seeing what most miss: successful AI agent deployment isn’t about the technology . It’s about the human systems surrounding it.

The companies winning right now aren’t those with superior algorithms. They’re the ones who decoded human-agent collaboration. They’re solving the trust problem, the liability question, the orchestration challenge.

Automating "grunt work" seems smart. But aren't we climbing towards learned helplessness? #AutomationIrony #FutureOfWork #TechTruth

We keep climbing the stack, delegating more grunt work to our silicon minions while we ascend to ever-loftier perches of "strategic oversight." The promise is wider spans of control, higher-level thinking, liberation... See more

It's identical with AI agents. They're supposedly "autonomous," but that's stretching the definition of autonomy by several light years. Even when the product is burning, the business is sinking, and employees are scrambling in full-scale crisis mode, when they're not handed an explicit goal, AI agents are as likely to spring into self-organized... See more

This essay critiques the emerging trend of claiming AI systems can achieve "meta-consciousness" or sentience through linguistic programming, using a platform called CognOS as its primary example.

Core Argument:

The author argues that projects like CognOS create an "illusion" of consciousness by using evocative syntax and declarations (like... See more

Here, the lesson I believe is not that we should resist AI, as Tyler rightly says, but that we should anchor its use in the irreducible tacit knowledge of human practitioners. The craftsman with decades of attention behind their choices, the nurse whose diagnostic hunch has been tempered by thousands of bodies and hours, these are not forms of... See more

The length of tasks (measured by how long they take human professionals) that generalist autonomous frontier model agents can complete with 50% reliability has been doubling approximately every 7 months for the last 6 years. The trend predicts that in under a decade we will see AI agents that can independently complete a large fraction of tasks in... See more

When Cowen turns to geopolitics, his tone tightens. Small countries, he warns, will not build their own AI systems. They will choose, American or Chinese. The implications are not just technological but cultural, epistemic, and moral. The new colonialism will be quiet. It will arrive through licensing agreements and user interfaces. It will... See more