AI chronicles

This isn’t like the early days of steamships or aviation, where bigger and better engines led to larger vehicles that could go longer distances and carry more people. The “race” metaphor journalists love doesn’t really fit either.

Today, companies like AI can spend billions on model training and chips, and find their designs copied within weeks – or... See more

Quitting programming as a career right now because of LLMs would be like quitting carpentry as a career thanks to the invention of the table saw.

We’ve automated the hands. We’re automating the heads. What’s left is the heart: presence, commitment, and care. That’s the third labor — relational labor — the work machines can’t replicate because they can’t relate in the truest sense of the word.

The first step is to understand the fundamental difference between humans and AIs. We are analog, chemical beings, with emotions and feelings. Compared with machines, we think slowly—and we act too fast, failing to consider the long-term consequences of our behavior (which AI can help predict). So we should not compete with AI; we should use it. At... See more