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Dima Bolkunov argues against relying on AI to write text for others: AI averages away an author's style and the empathy it enables, loses precision because it must fill gaps with ambiguous wording, removes the self-critique that writing forces, and shifts effort from writer to reader, so the writer's time savings evaporate on the readers' side.
2 min · 409 words
Superhuman Hardware Design Is The Easy Part
a16z partner Christian Keil argues frontier AI models will soon become superhuman at hardware design, but that the lossy interface between digital designs and physical atoms means building, testing, measuring and iterating real hardware will lag, shifting the frontier to manufacturing, procurement, data capture and process knowledge held by technicians.
12 min · 2,770 words
Steve Krouse, a programmer and soon-to-be father, asks what education is for in the age of AGI. Drawing on Neil Postman's The End of Education, Edison's failed prediction that technology would replace teachers, and the Lindy effect, he reflects on why schools endure, how AI undermines 'earning a living' as a purpose, and proposes crafting education's purpose together with children.
4 min · 993 words
To Make, or to Buy: The Economics of Decision Models
Parth Parikh explores the economics of decision models like Jev, whose outputs are choices, scores or abstentions rather than free text, formalizes decision hierarchies using Chow's reject rule to decide when a cheap model should defer to a costlier one, and speculates on multimodal and on-device uses.
16 min · 3,592 words