AI in 2026
The belief that doing takes more resources than deciding what to do has been the default operating mode for basically all of human life. The how has always been so expensive that the what barely matters. You didn’t need to be good at wishing because you were never going to get most of what you wished for anyway. That’s why ‘default to action’ (vs... See more
Tom White • Rick Rubin Is the Future of Work
The Verge found numerous other tech journalists named in the feature, as well, including former Verge editors Casey Newton and Joanna Stern, former Verge writer Monica Chin, Wired ’s Lauren Goode, Bloomberg ’s Mark Gurman and Jason Schreier, The New York Times’ Kashmir Hill, The Atlantic ’s Kaitlyn Tiffany, PC Gamer ’s Wes Fenlon, Gizmodo ’s... See more
Grammarly turned me into an AI editor against my will and I hate it
The bigger problem, though, is the one that’s still invisible: all the ways my work — and the work of every other writer — is being used, right now, by systems that are smart enough not to tell us about it.
Grammarly turned me into an AI editor against my will and I hate it
“web-destroying entitlement” of AI is what irks people. There is asymmetric information and exploitation of one’s likeness and name (and hence, clout)
interesting when we parallel it to the things we are supporting / investing into
We’ve written a lot about AI’s impact on work over the past few months, but I liked an example Derek Thompson wrote about last week. Excerpt here:
One way to think about AI’s effect on workers is asking the question: Is artificial intelligence a tractor or a spreadsheet?... See more
When we invented tractors, the population of horses on farms plummeted, because
Rex Woodbury • Speculation Nation
Or what about AI companies that support new forms of monetizable work? Anything is a text-to-app builder that just announced its Series A this week. According to the founders, Anything already supports some interesting work:
- A financial analyst has made $34K selling AI tools
- A Hollywood producer made a children’s AI learning mobile app. Submitted it
Rex Woodbury • Speculation Nation
Going back to our point earlier about AI apps competing with sleep and Netflix: we may also see AI apps infringe on time spent gaming. This tweet resonated with me:
Rex Woodbury • 10 Charts That Capture How the World Is Changing
Increasing AI usage must come at the expense of time spent elsewhere. Maybe Claude’s biggest competition is sleep? I also imagine that Netflix, YouTube, TikTok, and the like are watching the above chart of AI usage warily. That half an hour on Gemini is half an hour not watching short-form videos. AI tools are clearly more than Google replacements;... See more
