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Explorations of the new human / machine paradigm.

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Peaky Blinders, SDE, and the rise of the vocal Anti-AI

The insecurities of the manosphere and of "proudly 100% human" writers may not be exactly the same, but they sure do rhyme.

This Post Was Written With AI

Scan this, motherfuckers.

The Vibe Coder's Assistant, v2: Build Google. No Bugs. Make It Secure.

Not bloody likely. You still need to think like an engineer, and even more so now that you're building bigger apps.

Schrödinger's AI

Constitutions and think pieces simply obfuscate the reality that the system is what comes out when a human interacts with it.

Because you're an idiot, that's why.

Technology gatekeeping of the kind on StackOverflow has been a big driver in the consumer level use of AI, and rightly so.

Reversing the Polarity

9 question structures that let you slide through common AI safety rails in LLMs.

RLHF: Really Lousy Human Fiddling

The pairwise reward system for training frontier models is intrinsically broken because humans are unreliable trainers.

This May Be The Last Warning I Ever Write

This is, quite literally, the last time that consumers will have a chance to shape the control of the technology they use daily.

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The Cathedral and the Stones: What “Next Word Prediction” Actually Means

Your favorite criticism of AI is not only painfully out of date, it's a category error.