Cam Jones
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Cam Jones
To handle prompt drift (where similar prompts produce inconsistent results), we started treating prompts like code - storing them in our version control system with comments explaining why certain phrases worked better than others. This prompt library has become a valuable team asset.
Prompt to Code: Why I Stopped Prototyping in Figma and What This Means for Product Designers
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
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
Core Argument:
The author argues that projects like CognOS create an "illusion" of consciousness by using evocative syntax and declarations (like... See more
Just a moment...
Claude summary of: https://onepercentrule.substack.com/p/the-ai-consciousness-delusion
Spotify’s current incentives indicate that they’ll continue moving away from promoting human-made (and thus independently owned) music and toward anonymous first-party (and, inevitably, AI-generated) background music. As the most widely used music streaming platform gradually transforms into an AI white noise company, where does that leave recorded... See more
Kirk Hamilton • What Is Music? (Pt. 1)
What makes this trend so dispiriting isn’t artists seeking financial stability – it’s the hollowing out of cultural aspiration itself.
“Now the culture is most exemplified by people whose entire end goal appears to be empty profiteering. ... Double sell-outs don’t deserve our esteem as ‘creative’ people. They should be content with the reward they
Kate Moss is the odd supermodel out in the 90s. By comparison she has low fluency because her features are idiosyncratic and harder to understand. Kate’s eyes are feline, she’s angular and jaunty and so our brain is working harder to understand what is going on, but we become beguiled by the differences rather than the similarities and we find a... See more
Exceptionally Average
The point of AI isn't to make workers more productive, it's to make them weaker when they bargain with their bosses. Another of Bindley's sources went through eight rounds of interviews with a company, received an offer, countered with a request for 12% more than the offer, and had the job withdrawn, because "the company didn’t want to move ahead... See more
Pluralistic: The enshittification of tech jobs (27 Apr 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Narrative distance is the perceived separation between the reader and the unfolding story.
That distance is controlled by the narrator, whoever they are.
A close narrative distance is one where the audience sees what the characters see, senses what they sense, understands their emotions, and can read their thoughts. There tends to be vibrant... See more
That distance is controlled by the narrator, whoever they are.
A close narrative distance is one where the audience sees what the characters see, senses what they sense, understands their emotions, and can read their thoughts. There tends to be vibrant... See more