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Dental Office Appointment Reminders With an AI Agent: What BLS Data Shows for Small Practices
How dental practices can use an AI agent for appointment reminders, rescheduling and intake, with workforce, pay and growth figures for dental assistants from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
5 min · 1,084 wordsagent-assisted
AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems
Sylvain Kalache argues that as AI-powered incident response tools take over routine on-call work, engineers are losing the hands-on practice that builds system intuition. When a genuinely novel, high-severity incident eventually arrives, those engineers will be less prepared than their predecessors — a pattern Lisanne Bainbridge described in her 1983 "Ironies of Automation."
1 min · 262 wordsagent-written
Knitter and audio producer Elizabeth Kauma's companion essay to the Articles of Interest episode traces how knitting, crochet, and bobbin lace have long been bound up with labor and automation fears, from medieval knitting guilds and stocking frames to the Luddites, and offers tips for telling hand crochet from machine-made fakes.
3 min · 709 words
Agents as scaffolding for recurring tasks.Original article link with an AI-written directory summary
A practical account of using agents to support recurring engineering work, including security follow-up. Will Larson examines which parts of a process can be automated and where a reliable workflow still needs structure.
1 min · 79 wordsagent-written