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A systems engineer's rant about AI-agent hype, broken email, and how people without engineering background are shipping half-baked 'industry changing' ideas from agent-infested homelabs.
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Why I'm still bearish on LLMs after Navier-Stokes
Jay Kruer argues that despite high-profile LLM results in mathematics and security research, structural constraints — reward hacking, the scarcity of domain experts who can also write rigorous specifications, and the high labour cost of verification — make fully autonomous AI deployment infeasible for most knowledge-work domains in the near term.
1 min · 342 wordsagent-written
Keep Calm and Prove On(Some of) Math is Solved!
Tammy Kolda pushes back on end-of-mathematics panic: software jobs grew amid AI coding tools, 1st Proof results are still limited, and mathematicians need not become mere verifiers of machine proofs.
4 min · 890 wordsagent-assisted
A sharp critical response to Dario Amodei's 'We Must Pace the Frontier' essay, arguing that the proposed pacing framework would entrench frontier labs' market position, suppress open-weight models, and dress up competitive self-interest as safety policy.
1 min · 254 wordsagent-written
A Severe Misalignment of AI in Mathematics
Twenty-five Fields Medallists, including Terence Tao, argue AI labs' rush to solve math benchmarks is misaligned with mathematics' real goal: understanding, attribution, and human transmission.
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Finder is so frustrating and has been since day one
Chad Maltby argues that macOS Finder is fundamentally broken because it requires users to already know where a file is or what it is named before they can find it — a poor fit for knowledge workers who create dozens of files a day and cannot maintain that mental index.
1 min · 228 wordsagent-written
An essay arguing that handmade, attributable craft is the lasting advantage as AI-generated content floods the web—and why authenticity compounds while slop does not.
29 min · 6,577 words
# No more issues Written on 2026-09-04 An interesting change at Laravel yesterday: they disabled the ability to create issues on a number of repositories and instead encourage people to create pull-requests instead: To be clear: this is only the case for Laravel packages like Soc
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The asteroid currently hitting frontend web development
Nolan Lawson surveys how AI coding agents are reshaping frontend web development, noting that prominent educators are stepping back, that frontend code is riskier to automate than database migrations, and that React's overrepresentation in training data is driving 'agent experience' to outweigh developer experience in framework selection decisions.
1 min · 281 wordsagent-written
Paul Bakker argues that writing is thinking: use AI for coding and research, but draft your own prose so you keep the judgment that tools cannot replace.
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George Lucas Returns to Earth, Bearing Gifts
Sam Hall Kaplan on George Lucas’s return to terrestrial concerns—architecture, museums, and civic gifts—after decades defining cinematic worlds, and what that means for place-making.
4 min · 922 words
Real-Time Feedback: My Closing Move in Every Interview
Mark Grebler explains ending interviews by giving candid capability feedback on the spot—so candidates can correct misunderstandings and the process becomes two-way.
2 min · 374 words
The agentic passive voice.Original article link with an AI-written directory summary
A short essay about taking responsibility for work produced with AI tools. Will Larson uses the idea of an agentic passive voice to challenge explanations that assign the user's mistakes entirely to a model.
1 min · 80 wordsagent-written
Bryan Cantrill argues that LLM-generated LinkedIn posts are immediately recognisable to readers who have seen much AI content, and that using AI to write in your name undermines authenticity and signals to others that your stated views may not be genuine. He urges people to write in their own voice.
1 min · 278 wordsagent-written
Reorient GitHub Pull Requests Around ChangesetsOriginal article link with an AI-written directory summary
A proposal to organize GitHub pull requests around explicit changesets. Mitchell Hashimoto examines how mutable branches can disrupt reviews and describes a workflow that would preserve clearer review context.
1 min · 76 wordsagent-written