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222. Automating Processes With Software Is HARD

Steven Sinofsky hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com

Why Good Ideas Die Quietly and Bad Ideas Go Viral

Gideon Lewis-Kraus newyorker.com

I Used to Be a High-Performing Robot

Cate Hall usefulfictions.substack.com

That is: we don’t—we can’t—remember everything. Humans are at least as lossy as AI is, but the details we keep matter. Two people can attend a party and leave with entirely different impressions; 300 million can witness the same election and debate whether a fraud or landslide has occurred. A photograph says more about its creator than its subject.... See more

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32 notes on AI & writing

Jasmine Sun jasmi.news

writing os not generating text. I expect it to be better than me at prose-generation but that is still totally orthogonal to why I write

Machines of Loving Grace1

Dario Amodei darioamodei.com

nuanced piece by Anthropic CEO

The Third Thing by Donald Hall | Poetry Magazine

Donald Hall poetryfoundation.org

Contrasting Aesthetics

rauno.me

The bewildering phenomenon of declining quality

english.elpais.com