My web site traffic went up by a factor of 100 in 2025. It's crazy. It would be nice if my web page were truly so popular, but no, it's just that A.I. bots have taken over the web....

I wrote that AI leaves you with zero excuses and meant it as good news. The darker half took me longer. If the excuse is gone and you still don't move, it was never the excuse stopping you.

Terry Tao on how university students should control AI diet

What if the singularity already happened? And a neuroqueer cyberneticist from Germany has been engineering the gap for months?

The Library of Alexandria was the ancient world’s greatest repository of knowledge — and its greatest single point of failure. It didn’t burn in a single night. It declined across decades, through…

This is a recording of the AI Book Club discussion of Sebastian Mallaby's The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence. In the discussion, we talk about the…

The broader market narrative, driven by frontier labs, suggests that foundational models are the sole capability differentiator. I compared twenty models across 5 domains (thousands of extractions)…

Let’s recap what we know since April, when Anthropic’s marketing department started coal-rolling the industry with their nonsense about novelty. A model with 3.6 billion active parameters…

The 'can never catch up' AI narrative is contradicted by the industry's own timeline. A practitioner's perspective on why the anxiety is overblown.

Using Cursor and Claude, a 5-person engineering team can now build a billing webhook handler, a customer import tool, a Slack alert...Read More... Source

AI-built SaaS apps can work, but the expensive cleanup starts when nobody supervises the system design, data model, auth boundaries, and production workflows.

Loose links Hermes Agent, and Hermes Agent. Both new to me, but look important, because it's open source personal AI. Not clear yet on the difference. Privacy Manifesto. Wrote it years ago. Does…

I narrated my book in my own voice without recording a single chapter. The whole thing runs locally on a Mac, costs nothing, and sounds like me. This is the build, step by step, including the failure…

You give an agent everything a project has produced: every Slack message, every deck, every status update since kickoff. Then you put a dashboard and a chatbot on top, so anyone can ask where things…

Or: How an AI Invented a Plant and Someone Started Selling the Seeds AI images created by a scam Facebook advertisement selling seeds for Hosta plants There is a plant for sale on Facebook that does…

The largest coming conflict in the new AI world is not the one between AI giants or the one between those giants and governments. It will be the conflict between containment and expansion of personal…

During my time studying architecture the architect-engineer and Pritzker Prize winner Frei Otto was a full time professor at my alma mater, the University of Stuttgart and his Institute of Institute…

An interactive cost-effectiveness model for MacKenzie Scott's $26B in philanthropy — and the AI prompts that built it.

Someone sent me an MIT thesis this week. From Worm to Human: Scaling Brain Emulation, by Isaak Freeman, submitted March 2026 in the Boyden Lab. I read things like this fairly often. Brain emulation…

“I only care about what a few people think of my work and they are already aware of what I produce. Think of me as a ‘professional loser.’”

The Group Stage of the 2026 World Cup finished today, so it’s time to mark the homework. Back in the launch post five AI models, a deterministic lookup table, and one football fan predicted the same…

In 2025, his book sales dropped by 46%. That’s what Tim Ferriss discovered when he looked at his spreadsheets. The smoking gun: ChatGPT’s release around 2022, when his sales started to decrease. And…

Enterprise AI does not have to be US hyperscalers or on-prem. European providers running open-source models offer a third path that makes more practical sense.

CodeMine https://blog.codemine.be/posts/2026/20260610-custom-software/ -Using LLMs for vibe agentic coding teaches you some things. For example, building working prototypes doesn’t require you…

The pace of AI improvement has meant the way I build software looks very different to how I did six months ago, and again six months before that. The change over time is now so constant that it's…

I gave an agent one brief and pointed it at my own platform: connect as a real MCP client, exercise every tool, and find every place where what the tool says and what the tool does disagree. Review…

A few days ago, I came across the paper “Demoing Stochastic Parrot: A Candid AI Cohabitant” by Chang et al. This paper—published by MIT researchers at the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing…

Series Navigation: Part 1: The Day the LLM Stood Still Part 2: The Catcher in the Prompt Part 3: Only 1984 Tokens Remain Part 4: Critique of Pure Prompt (you are here) Two things fill the mind with…

AI can blast a thousand emails in one night, yet it cannot close a single client. A confession from a UK study-abroad salesperson: once AI flattens a standardized skill like drafting essays, what…

Agents need delegated access, not inherited human access. Put policy between the agent and the tool before agents touch real systems.

Opencode and the MiniMax models are good enough I’ve dabbled with the MiniMax models (and Kimi/GLM) over the last few days. They are good enough for 90% of tasks. Codex and Claude still have…

The conversation around AI and productivity often feels oddly unsatisfying because both sides can point to evidence that feels true. AI really can make people faster. It can summarize documents,…

Wenn ein Coding-Agent ein Ticket abarbeitet, baut er sehr häufig eine zweite Implementierung neben den vorhandenen Pfad, ohne den bestehenden zu benutzen. Das Feature funktioniert, die Tests werden…

You know what the internet needs? Another person having opinions on AI

A blistering heatweave threw everything off this week; we even had a big power cut through central Cambridge that drove many of us to seek haven in gelato shops. While melting, I spoke at CHIA's…

The most repeated advice about AI-generated code is also the most wrong: treat every line like a PR from a junior you're mentoring. I gave that advice myself. It sounds responsible. It sounds adult.…

Decision records are the missing memory layer in AI-assisted software development. They capture not just what was built, but why — and that distinction becomes critical when AI tools are writing your…

Effective AI-driven vulnerability discovery does not require a restricted frontier model. This is a concrete run that shows it, start to finish: I pointed IronCurtain’s vuln-discovery workflow…

Geopolitical Economy Report US Big Tech corporations are paying influencers to spread anti-China, pro-AI disinformation on social media. Ben Norton explains why Silicon Valley fears Chinese…

I have had far too many conversations lately, and perhaps so have you, in which my interlocutor confidently or desperately attempts to assert what really, truly, and finally sets us humans apart from…

I wanted to keep an eye on a handful of web pages — a supplier’s pricing page, a regulatory portal, a competitor’s changelog — without either checking them by hand or drowning in alerts…

Speculative strategy uses artifacts from plausible adjacent futures to help organizations examine present choices before they become product, policy, investment, or communications commitments.

Even when I’m not using Claude Code, most of my chatting with LLMs happens in the terminal. I use my fork of mods, the (now sunsetted) LLM CLI client from Charm, to which I’ve added an interactive…

I spend a fair amount of my spare time running AI models on my own hardware. Somewhere in there I got stuck on a question I couldn’t put down: when people say an AI “has a…

A lifelong coder, skeptical of AI, finds it harder to dismiss.

The model building your app has never used a phone. Here's the prompt that fixes the mobile UX, thumb reach and all.

Kim, Chang, Pham & Iyyer have a new paper on what they call argument collapse: the tendency of LLMs to produce arguments that converge on the same small set of perfectly reasonable, perfectly…

LLMs have been around for a while now. When Anthropic released a statement that nation state attackers are using Claude for attacks, I read it with a lot of skepticism.

Day 1 of the OpenValue hackathon in Belgium. I explored AI tooling and got hands-on with gcx, Grafana’s Observability as Code CLI tool.

I’m having a good time with pi, a lovely minimal agent harness made by thoughtful Austrians. It’s a super-solid, very extensible foundation to work with, and writing your own extensions…