Bookmarks for June 2, 2026
- The AI Bubble — No One's Happy
A depressing but probably accurate analysis.
Tag: ai
Bookmarks for April 24, 2026
- What do coders do after AI? – Anil Dash
This article resonated very, very strongly with me, and particularly this quote:
“The reason that tech generally — and coders in particular — see LLMs differently than everyone else is that in the creative disciplines, LLMs take away the most soulful human parts of the work and leave the drudgery to you,” Dash says. “And in coding, LLMs take away the drudgery and leave the human, soulful parts to you.”
Bookmarks for April 15, 2026
- YouTube Now Worlds Largest Media Company, Topping Disney
I suspect I'm not alone in watching more Youtube that broadcast TV. But I do still get odd looks when I say I do that. I am relieved to find that merely makes me more mainstream than the person looking at me funny.
- We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease in SF and asked it to make a profit | Andon Labs
An AI research company is letting an AI run a shop. And it's hired staff. It's a fascinating research experiment, if, at the current level of the tech, more or less doomed to be no more than a weird curio.
Bookmarks for April 13, 2026
- Training AI models doesn’t emit that much – Andy Masley
A comparison of the carbon cost of training AI models compared to many many others things. I have long wondered about this, and now I have a decent answer, and yes, it’s pretty much a red herring, unless you are already complete consumer goods renunciate. There is no ethical consumption under capitalism, but AIs are not especially unethical within the eco frame, and painting them as if they are is not an especially helpful argument.
- Hungarian opposition ousts Viktor Orbán after 16 years in power | Hungary | The Guardian
A little sliver of good news – I await seeing if the infrasctructure he built can be dismanlted fast enough to prevent someone else just as bad filling his shoes at the next election, but I’ll take the fact that there’s even hope they might as as good sign for now.
Bookmarks for March 21, 2026
- Better, Faster, and (Even) More – Rands in Repose
The opening two sentence of this really resonated with me. "I’ve never built more interesting, random, and useless scripts, tools, and services than I have in the last six months. The cost to go from “Random Thought” to “Working Something” has never been lower thanks to Claude Code."
Bookmarked to take a proper look at his tools later – but having made this note, I have to note that the gap between "quick tools I'm building for myself" and "working public software" is massive, and I still don't believe that non-professional engineers should be using these tools to make public software.
Bookmarks for November 13, 2018
- How AI Agents Cheat
This is brilliant. And disturbing. If we are all wiped out by an AI in the future, this is going to be why – not because an AI has applied a moral judgement to us, just because wiping us out represents the most efficient path to the goal we've programmed it with. Imagine, for example, an AI with the goal "prevent the largest possible number of humans from dying". An efficient path to this goal would be to entirely wipe out the human race. Sure, it kills billions, but it efficiently prevents a potentially infinite number of humans from dying.
Bookmarks for June 19, 2018
- IBM’s machine argues, pretty convincingly, with humans – BBC News
This is quite astounding. Digging into a bit further, it's still not human-level debating or decision making, but give them another decade and it really will be time to welcome our robot overlords. The difficult bit is, of course, training them on a near-objective data set, rather than giving them built in biases.
Links for Tuesday July 12th 2011 through Wednesday July 13th 2011
- Computer reads manual, wins Civ – Edge Magazine
Yes is pretty much exactly what you might think. Scientists at MIT have built a computer that is capable of teaching itself to play (and win) a moderately complex computer game. I know plenty of people who can't do that.
- An Eye-Opening Adventure in Socialized Medicine | NeuroTribes
I don't imagine there's anyone I know reading this who doesn't think that socialised medicine is a basic human right, but just in case I do know anyone who is actually daft enough to believe that the American "system" of health care is better than a British (at least at the moment, before the current pack of jackals have finished chopping it's legs off), then I invite you to read this cheering little narrative. The rest of you should read it just because it'll make you feel good.