Negative-interest tech debt
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Pursuit Of Laziness
A blog by Jesse Duffield
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At the end of the day, my slaves are just a tool
Guest post from an anonymous ancient Babylonian
AI-isms go deeper than em-dashes and ‘load-bearing’
Everybody is clueing on to how AI keeps using em-dashes, alien vocabulary like ‘load-bearing’, ‘gated’, ‘belt-and-braces’, and annoying phrase structures like ‘It’s not X, it’s Y’.
OpenPray - Your server’s security doesn’t need a doctor, it needs a priest
With the recent release of Claude Mythos and the trend towards smarter and smarter AI’s, the writing is on the wall: we have absolutely no chance at defending our servers against AI-powered attackers.
IT’S DEATH
I’m feeling hungry, so I go to my kitchen and turn on the stove. I inadvertently have the handle of the frying pan sitting above the flame and when I go to pick up the pan my entire hand melts off in an instant.
You think unemployed, I think retired
Work sucks, I know - blink-182
Are AI agents cognitive Ozempic?
Ozempic is an equaliser. There’s only so far you can go in the direction of a healthy weight. If you were overweight, Ozempic is great news. But if you were already at a healthy weight? Well, now you’re less special. That’s what equalisers do: they compress the range of outcomes.
Escaping the Trifecta
So you’ve read Simon Willison’s post about the lethal trifecta and how, like the infinity stones on Thanos’ gauntlet, you really don’t want them all to be present at once.
BYO Intelligence
Copy-paste functionality removed from major operating systems by 2027 or I eat my dick on national television Sam Altman*
Uncertain Paternity
Looking down at my baby son as he wriggles and twists in my arms I think about all the things that a normal parent should be thinking: ‘what a beautiful boy’, ‘so much potential’, ‘I can’t wait until I no longer need to change his nappies’.