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Small Decisions: Engineering a Leading Model
AWS engineer Marc Brooker recounts building and training a small leading model hands-on—what worked, how it performed, and what the exercise taught him about modern model-building.
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When I was a freshman at RISD, there was a club fair, and I was drawn to the RISD STEAM table, where I met Carly Ayres and Sayer Pease. They welcomed me with open arms, and I started to learn about things like 3D printers and Arduino. I first learned Processing from Clement Valla, paper electronics from Jie Qi, and then Arduino from Paul Badger. I fell in love, and the fate was more or less sealed when I made my first music synthesizer. Creating a tool that output things I never thought of while making it lit up my heart, and is still why I do the things I do today.…
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What I believe about the future of software development
Thorsten Ball plants a flag on where software development is headed as AI agents write more of the code: what still matters for engineers, what gets commoditized, and how taste and judgment become the scarce skills.
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What's the Future for Pure Math Research in the Age of AI?
Stephen Wolfram surveys AI’s growing role in pure mathematics—headline ‘solved’ problems, what automation does and doesn’t replace, and how human mathematical taste and research programs may evolve.
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Russell Sechzer on what's missing in agentic commerce: incomplete financial instructions, who authorizes agents, who pays for work that never becomes a purchase, and the invisible costs behind Muse, Instinct, Stripe, Visa, and AP2.
8 min · 1,882 words
LinkedIn is a soulsucking hole of professionalism and a pit of hell that not even my worst enemy should spend the rest of his days in. It’s this concoction of performative productivity and corpo speak producing cursed artifacts beyond human comprehension. A place where normal human text goes to die and can only be kept alive by an LLM like a radiation protection suit.
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Throughout the history of AI, open research has played a critical role in driving progress. Today, many key details of frontier large language models (LLMs) remain proprietary, but open-weights model families— such as DeepSeek, Kimi, and MiMo —continue to provide a valuable window into the development process for modern LLMs.
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As If Yesterday, in Partly in the Right, I asked where the information comes from when an agent produces a result, and what checks it. Today I have a sharper version of that question, and a new piece of evidence to ask it about.
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AMD to Acquire World Labs to Advance the Future of AI Compute
AMD announces a definitive agreement to acquire Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs, bringing spatial AI researchers and models in-house to shape future AI hardware, software, and systems.
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World Labs announces a definitive agreement to join AMD, arguing that scale, reach, and closer hardware partnership are needed to accelerate spatial and physical AI research.
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Robert W argues LLM confidence scores are vibe-words, not calibrated probabilities—and outlines RLCD-style approaches that treat hallucination as a solvable measurement and training problem.
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Pranav Desai catalogs ten visual and copy tells of AI-generated “slop UI”—from rainbow gradients and pulsing badges to glassmorphism and generic hype—and why vibe-coded interfaces often look cheap without a design vision.
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What is the date today? what 83 AI models think
We put "What is the date today?" to 83 AI models (GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek…) at the same time. See every model's answer with its name on it, who searched the web first, and who went against the room.
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AI and the Fall? of the Creative ClassAmerica is Losing Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs in Media, Film & the Arts. How Much is AI to Blame?
Joseph Politano examines why the US has lost more than 200k jobs in media, film, publishing and the arts over four years, weighing generative AI against streaming consolidation, advertising shifts and other structural forces, and what it may signal for wider white-collar displacement.
10 min · 2,263 words
PotemkinOS: an operating system where the model writes the userland
Gabe Ortiz’s joke-with-a-build: a Linux image with no userland—only a kernel, inference engine, C compiler, and eight tools—so the model must invent its own shell, ls, and eventually a Kubernetes facade three villages converge on.
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AI companies in race to demonstrate their model most threatening to humanity
A satirical Civilian piece on frontier labs competing to look the most existentially dangerous—skewering safety theater and marketing-as-doom.
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Hard Stop: Kernel-Level Preemption and Containment for Rogue Agentic Execution
A research write-up proposing Dual-Sided Andon: out-of-band, kernel-boundary preemption and containment for runaway AI agents, arguing application-level kill switches are insufficient.
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What's wrong with Open Source AI?
Alexine Le Port on the shrinking gap between open-weight and frontier models—and why open-source AI culture is still mostly vibing instead of shipping durable public infrastructure.
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What Would A Serious AI Product Look Like?
One of the issues that I have with the current generation of “AI” products is that they do not appear to take their own premises seriously. I look at a plethora of obsequious chatbots claiming to be serious tools for problem solving, and I think, this is not what a problem-solving tool would look like. Even before we get to the tremendous ethical problems with the frontier labs, it is this impression of their composition *as a product* that makes me feel, constantly, whenever I am interacting…
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Why I expect AI replication incidents by 2027
I think a major incident of autonomous AI replication in the wild before the end of 2027 is reasonably likely. In this post, I explain the reasons why I think so.
6 min · 1,277 words