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What I’ve been reading (and watching) this week ending 5 April 2026 https://medium.com/@jchyip/what-ive-been-reading-and-watching-this-week-ending-5-april-2026-9a357e08e786 #ai #management #pluralism #economics #agile #ev
This New York Times article is necessary reading, discussing what #students lose #intellectually when they let #ArtificialIntelligence write for them. #AI #writing https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/us/student-writing-essays-ai.html?unlocked_article_code=1.6FA.lWO2.fMbKl9a-Hl1N&smid=nytcore-ios-share
"The people building and using AI at full power are living in a very different world from everyone else."
Tag yourself!
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/13/ai-elite-vs-ai-skeptic-doomer
#news #technology #TechNews #AI #LLMs
Options: (choose one)
Well, at least they‘re honest: Screw the planet, screw your children‘s future, our loss-making, billions-burning business model is more important. Quick! More gas! Like a con man creating time pressure. Meanwhile the heat is escalating like never before.
#AI #Climateemergency
In light of what I've seen, LLM use seems to provide the illusion of addressing both kinds of complexity in the short-term while it increases essential complexity in the long-term. It may or may not reduce some accidental complexity; the verdict is still out, as far as I can tell. Judging from the recent leak of the Claude Code front end source code, LLMs seem to introduce an enormous amount of new accidental complexity.
To the extent that LLMs are in the category of what Brooks calls automatic programming, this quote he shares from David Parnas is important:
Automatic programming always has been a euphemism for programming with a higher-level language than was presently available to the programmer.
Taken together, all this seems to suggest that LLM use in coding is a net negative, and if the above is to be believed it will result in worse outcomes, not better, over the long haul. Definitely re-read Brooks and see if you agree.
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #AgenticAI #LLMs #ClaudeCode #software #tech #dev #SoftwareEngineering #SoftwareDevelopment
https://blog.foostang.xyz/published/posts/the-golden-era-of-coding/index.html
#ai #coding
Tequila Talk w frmr #GOP Congressman Joe Walsh & me; #Orban losing? #JDVance 's sad Orban crush (worked out great!), how Orban is #Putin 's bitch.. Will be interesting at #EU & #NATO this week!
Watch👇the rest!
https://api.omarshehata.me/substack-proxy/articles/substack-com-blueamp-note-p-193720619.html #news #trump #politics #hungary #fascism #democracy #europe #france #uk #ukraine #italy #ai #russia #usa #us #america #culture #tv #unitedstates #press #us #economy #media #socialmedia #straitofhormuz #iran #israel #middleeast #lebanon
"Corporations, just like a potential runaway AI, have no intrinsic interest in human welfare. They are legal constructions: abstract entities designed with the ultimate goal of maximizing financial returns for their investors above all else. If corporations were in fact real persons, they would be sociopaths, completely lacking the ability for empathy that is a crucial element of normal human behavior. Unlike humans, however, corporations are theoretically immortal, cannot be put in prison, and the larger multinationals are not constrained by the laws of any individual country.
With the incalculable advantage of their superhuman powers, corporations have literally taken over the world. They have grown so massive that an astonishing sixty-nine of the largest hundred economies in the world are not nation states but corporate entities."—Jeremy Lent
AI Has Already Taken Over. It’s Called the Corporation >
#corporate_executives_governance
#corporations #legal_constructions #the_corporation #humanity_takeover #shareholders #overtaking #AI #growth #corporate_charters #England #USA #mass_manipulation #industrialists #destruction #profit_dictatorship #global_governance #human_life #environment #welfare #worker_owned #cooperatives #social_standards#consumerism #commodification
I realized that if I was writing a program and it didn't always work, I had a choice: I could either fix it, or call it AI.
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #AgenticAI #LLMs #Claude #ClaudeCode #ChatGPT #tech #dev #software #SoftwareDevelopment #SoftwareEngineering
[#TRADESHOW] #Intersec #Shanghai 2026 – #Security #Equipment and #Technology #Expo will be held from May 7 to 9, 2026, at the National #Exhibition and #Convention #Center (#NECC), Shanghai. #Exhibition connects #international #suppliers with #China’s rapidly #expanding security, #fire #protection, and #safety #technology #markets. #Event integrates #global expertise with #market depth to promote #innovation in #AI, #IoT, #cybersecurity, and #emergency response #systems. https://cnbusinessforum.com/event/intersec-shanghai-2026-security-equipment-and-technology-expo/
"[A] recent survey of 5,000 white-collar US workers found that 40% of non-managers say AI saves them no time at all at work, while 92% of high-level executives say it makes them more productive."
Good insight into which jobs can be safely automated.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/14/ai-productivity-workplace-errors
#news #technology #TechNews #LLMs #workslop #AI #work #automation
The #Old #Mariner #Portrait by Kaye Menner Wide variety #Prints & lovely #Products at:
https://kaye-menner.pixels.com/featured/the-old-mariner-portrait-by-kaye-menner-kaye-menner.html
#ai #digitalart #oldsailor #weatheredface #expressive #wrinkles #beard #rugged #homedecor #mastoart #fediverse #fediart #fedigiftshop #giftideas #wallartforsale #Art #artforsale #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #Artist #FineArtAmerica #PhotographyFeed #VisualArts #CreativeArts
The Dead Economy Theory
https://www.owenmcgrann.com/p/the-dead-economy-theory
#ai
#DeadEnd
#deadeconomy
#tescreal
#dunningkruger
#nofuture
Deutsch Sprechers, helf mir bitte:
Ich bin jetzt in meine Deutschkurse.
Ich und die andere Studenten haben festgestellt, daß haben alles Angst wie #AI.
Wir sprechen über AI, und denn fragen wir: „Wie sagt man auf Deutsch ‚AI’?”
Ich habe gesagt, daß meine Deutsche Kollegen immer sagen nur „AI”. Doch haben wir in Wörterbuch nachgeschlagen; wir finden „künstliche Intelligenz”…nie höre ich das auf Deutsch!
Denn fragen wir: ist “AI„: der, die, oder das? Ist “die„ wie Intelligenz?
"Police use of facial recognition technology is dangerous, and stories of people wrongfully arrested because of police reliance on incorrect facial recognition results continue to surface."
"A study of physicians in Poland who specialize in endoscopy — the use of flexible probes to examine the inside of the human body — shows how quickly AI tools can erode human abilities. The physicians, who had all performed at least 2,000 colonoscopies during their careers, were given access to an AI system that analyses colonoscopy images in real time and flags a type of precancerous intestinal lesion called an adenoma. The tool was available to the specialists on some days but not on others.
Once physicians began using it, their performance dropped significantly whenever the system was unavailable. During the three-month period before the AI tool was introduced, the specialists found at least one adenoma during 28.4% of colonoscopies. During the three-month period after the tool was introduced, the adenoma detection rate for colonoscopies performed without AI assistance decreased to 22.4%.
Gastroenterology and Hepatology, suggest that even highly skilled professionals might get worse at tasks that their job requires as they become more dependent on AI tools, says Robert Wachter, a physician at the University of California, San Francisco, who is the author of a book on how AI tools are transforming health care. The study authors say that continuous exposure to such tools can cause clinicians to become “less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance”.
Co-author Yuichi Mori, a physician-researcher at the University of Oslo, says that more studies are needed to confirm the phenomenon. But people who use AI tools should be aware that they risk losing some of their skills, he adds. “There is no established solution against deskilling right now. It should be a very hot research topic in the next decade.”"
What I’ve been reading (and watching) week ending 14 June 2026 https://medium.com/@jchyip/what-ive-been-reading-and-watching-week-ending-14-june-2026-78cf0be34087 #science #cybersecurity #ai #SoftwareEngineering #politics
Why I'm using wired Android Auto when all the cool kids are switching to wireless
Sometimes, you have to dial back the tech to make ends meet.
#Tech #Technology #TechNews #AI #Gadgets #Software #Cybersecurity #Apple #Google #Microsoft #Startup #OpenSource #ZDNet [ZDNet]
Another great story about the impact of AI with no mention to it in the headline of the story:
In South Korea a Starbucks marketing campaign is created using AI and executives don't even bother to open the email attachments to check the proposals. The campaign was published on the date of a pro-democracy protesters massacre calling it Tank Day and using slogans clearly drawing from the deadly military attack, which felt deeply unrespectful to the victims. The AI most likely learned that from far-right forums like Ilbe where mocking the victims is common.
They cancelled the campaign hours after publishing it but it was too late, the CEO has been sacked, card payments went down a 26%, refunds haven been requested from prepaid cards, police is investigating and Starbucks asked costumers to refrain from directing their anger to staff.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/06/starbucks-south-korea-tank-day-promotion-blunder
🐦🔥nemo™🐦⬛ 🇺🇦🍉#IsraelFirst Doesn't Want You To Have #Privacy #tyt #yt #Surveillance #MassSurveillance #Security #ADL #Israel
ADL #Greenblatt: I’m paraphrasing, we are monitoring all of them—be it left-wing, be it anti-war, be it pro-Palestine… 24/7/365. Everywhere on all platforms… Wow, apparently the #ADL has nothing better to do than to monitor their fellow citizens… cynical 👏👏👏
I have tolerance for many things… BS like this isn’t part of it…
Not only does #BigTech #AI #surveillance capitalist #nerdreichers want our data to farm us like pack animals. But also people who are genocide apologists…
And all the laws that are trying to weaken privacy and security make much more sense now, doesn’t it. #VPNs? Nah. #E2E? Who needs that—#AgeID verification… It’s much easier to smear and defame one when someone already has a troublemaker’s ID, amirite? Surveillance #adtech yes please #brokergate I SAY FUCK THIS SHIT TO ALL OF IT… #FlockOFF
Claude Code Masterclass: Ship Real Code with AI: Install Claude Code and master the Plan → Implement → Test → Review → Commit loop: Best-of-N, testing, git, MCP, hooks & skills. by Luca Berton is the featured course 🎓 on Leanpub!
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#ai #ai_programming_with_python #large_language_models #vibe_engineering #python
What happens when we stop asking AI, and start asking each other again?
In this new series, Don't Ask AI, Ask A Peer (a collaboration between APC, GenderIT and Global Voices), writers and illustrators from different contexts respond to shared questions on AI, creativity, and human rights, not with one answer, but many.
Follow the series across April, and join the conversation.
Illustration by Gustavo Nascimento.
