Jim Neilsen on LLM instructions
Great point from Jim Neilsen re: the instructions found deep inside a model or agent’s instructions, which we may not prefer yet live with if we don’t know to override them: It’s like a…
The scientific anthropology for machines
So, reading Pedagogical Anthropology. Montessori dedication to study the pedagogy with the contribution of the anthropology field. Seria outra perspectiva de identificação. Podemos pensar em uma…
Neither Here Nor There
Back when I was active on Facebook and Twitter, I had little or no energy for posting here in the marmot. I'm reminded of that now because I've written two relatively lengthy comments on other web…
Trapped in a Self-Driving Car During an Anti-Robot Attack – The New York Times
Va tutto bene, finchè va tutto bene… Del proverbiale taxista newyorkese con mazza da baseball annessa se togli il taxista togli anche la mazza.. Non è la prima volta che succedono casi di…
If this is not an AI video, George Will has broken from the whore media and described why the Israeli-Americans will not win a conventional war with Iran
If this is not an AI video, George Will has broken from the whore media and described why the Israeli-Americans […]
A Rising New Era of Personal Tools
At PKM Summit this weekend one thing that stood out was that many have started creating their own tools, and were using vibecoding to create them. While the term agency turned out to be unknown to…
UX Roundup: Generate in 4K | Research Reproducibility Crisis | NotebookLM Videos Perform Well | Midjourney v.8 | Micropayments | Microsoft Image Model | NVIDIA GTC
Summary : Why I generate images in 4K resolution | Half of UI academic research fails to reproduce | NotebookLM Cinematic Videos Do Well with Viewers | Midjourney Version 8 Disappoints | New protocol…
Why Americans hate* AI
This week's topics include:Why Americans are more negative on AI than any other country in the worldWhy DLSS 5 had one of the all-time worst reveals everWhy people are drawn to technically…
Escaping Nulliverse
Now that I got you here in this virtual elevator, let me pitch you an idea. What if we could create a social network with no humans involved at all? And we'll build a company for it that…
China Tech – Local Syndrome
The outlook for AI in China is completely unknown.
The Singularity as a Systems Problem, Not a Problem of Scale
Artificial intelligence is advancing, but emerging evidence suggests its trajectory may be shaped by systems and constraints rather than by the accumulation of scale alone. A Prediction Without a…
Delegation in medicine
Doctors are drowning in desk work. Medical records, test orders, medication charts, authorisation requests, transfer letters, discharge letters, referral letters, medication reconciliations,…
GenAI: The Architect’s New Brainstorming Buddy, Not a Replacement
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=11015085&casa_token=5hSfww3AlwIAAAAA:eTn9d1W-p95CJtxwAcvPft_bWZB9R8i6P-d1IZBln6MmSF-En1Q4vKdgbejF8w2klKZYeX1VZx4&tag=1 For years, software…
Maybe I was a builder all along
I always thought of myself as a coder. Then AI showed up, and for a moment it felt unsettling. Tools like Claude Code made it feel like a skill I had spent years building was being compressed into a…
Level 5 in Practice: Four Agents, Four Worktrees, One Developer
I described Level 5 in the six levels post: multiple agents in parallel, each on its own worktree, the IDE for reviews only. That was the theory. Here’s what a Wednesday morning actually looks…
Jargon Buster i. AI, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Generative AI
AI, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Generative AI, and LLMs are all terms commonly thrown around in tech writing, news and media, but they each refer to slightly different things and shouldn't be…
Hard-Wired Wetware IV: The Case Against Rebalancing: Why The Asymmetrical Integration Model (AIM) May Be Self-Correcting
This paper interrogates the normative extension of the Asymmetric Integration Model by examining whether asymmetrical integration may represent a dynamically stabilised equilibrium rather than a…
The origins of skynet
The origins of skynet #Military #ML
Will you go to prison for an AI?
Who is liable for code written by LLMs? It seems as though everyone is talking about agentic AI, and although it's perhaps already subject to semantic diffusion , I understand it as the process of…
A great list of questions for a bank’s leadership
I was just having a chat with an AI engine asking about the most common questions people ask about cryptocurrencies. Really interesting answer so, I thought I would share it here (with my edits), as…
Microsoft vs. OpenAI: The $50 Billion Betrayal
Microsoft gave OpenAI $13 billion and exclusive cloud access. OpenAI took the money, restructured itself into a for-profit company, handed a $50 billion deal to Amazon instead, and is now building a…
Spins Instead of Bits: New Computing Architecture Could Solve AI’s Energy Problem
The rising energy demands of modern AI applications are increasingly becoming a focus of research and industry. Systems such as large language models, image generators, and complex optimization…
Fizzy: A Kanban Board Your Agent can Talk To
I started using Fizzy, Basecamp's "fun, modern take on Kanban." While Fizzy is devoid of AI features, it is a perfect complement to a CLI agent like Claude Code. I manage my personal todos by talking…
software on demand
It’s kinda weird that I am now able to materialize software on demand.
More Better
What would it look like to be a good software engineer? Would it mean that you are able to solve complex problems with proven solutions? Or would it mean that you can provide novel and creative ways…
AI Will Create Millions of Quants
(Most of Them Will Lose Money) AI makes it easier than ever to build trading strategies. Prompt a model, run a backtest, optimise some parameters, and suddenly you’ve got a beautiful equity curve…
[GUEST] What I Would Have Done, by Claude
In which I ask for a guest post on an interesting topic from an interesting author.
Agentic AI Security: Reviewing the Past to Predict the Future
OpenAI recently posted a role for a Cybersecurity Landscape Analyst within their Intelligence and Investigation team. One line stood out: “Develop forward-looking assessments of how cyber threats may…
AI in Software: A Conformist Catalyst for Human-Centric Innovation
The Role of AI in Software Innovation: Disruptive yet Conformist Artificial intelligence has made groundbreaking strides in various domains, yet its contributions in software innovation still raise…
Two Waves of Digital Transformation. Developers Win Both.
AI is replacing workers and consumers alike. The first wave digitized the back office. The second is removing humans from both sides of the transaction. Here's why developers should be optimistic…
Robots, not immigrants: My optimism on Japan's New Political Party
I spent some time in Tokyo, and got to meet some people around the newest political party "Team Mirai" (Japanese: チームみらい; lit. 'Team Future').Takahiro Anno, the founder of the party, was a startup…
Lecture and workshop proposals
I have put together a collection of lecture, workshop, and course proposals on AI and AI-assisted programming. Each one is tailored to a specific audience and comes in three delivery formats: a…
My AI Agent Said 'Done.' It Skipped an Entire Acceptance Criterion.
The hardest bug was not in the code. It was in the trust model between the engineer agent and the orchestrator.
I built a Tauri app for my home lab
I built a Tauri app for my home lab I’ve been leaning a lot more into AI coding lately. It’s made me rethink a couple things: I can use any language Reliability and error detection at…
How Do You Know If a Skill Is Any Good? LLM-as-Judge Scoring
How Do You Know If a Skill Is Any Good? LLM-as-Judge Scoring banner
Mapping the 2026 AI Agent Landscape: From Protocols to Predictions
Six protocols. Six automation levels. Seventeen tools. Twelve predictions. One interactive map that ties them all together.
Debunking the AI Bubble
Welcome back to another Articles by Victoria, the place where I randomly write things I’m curious about. Over the past year, I have found myself increasingly uncomfortable with how casually we (and th
AI Didn’t Kill Startup Lawyers. It Just Gave Everyone Better Tools.
“It’s always been difficult to make a good record.  To be perfectly honest with you, it’s really about the person that’s pushing the buttons.  No matter what type of equipment you…
What are your thoughts about the Anthropic settlement? Do you have many clients who are filing claims?
I mean. I guess it's good in the sense that they will get SOMETHING, and something is better than NOTHING, but it still sucks that any of this is reality at all! I would have rather them not have had…
70% of new software engineering papers on arXiv are LLM related
Subjectively, it feels like LLMs dominate the software engineering research agenda. Are most researchers essentially studying “Using LLMs to do …”? What does the data on papers…
You can't evaluate what you don't understand
There's a popular thesis making the rounds: software engineering as a skill is becoming obsolete. The argument goes that with AI, the interface to building software is now English rather than a…
Google Is Experimenting with Rewriting Headlines with AI
Sean Hollister, reporting for The Verge: Now, Google is beginning to replace news headlines in its search results with ones that are AI-generated. After doing something similar in its Google Discover…
Prompt Library
Browse all AI agent prompts
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The Productivity Paradox - Where Do AI Gains Go in a Time-and-Materials World?
"If you're an IT services player billing by the hour, and your clients now expect the same deliverables faster and cheaper thanks to AI, that hits your margins and your pyramid at the same time." —…
AI's Blindspot: The 'Lost in the Middle' Effect
There's a weird phenomenon with the way AI reads documents and conversations, and it negatively impacts the accuracy of the responses we get back. AI's accuracy when recalling information located in…
My new (and only ever) editor is Gemini
A missed parenthesis obliterating all reference-style markdown links in this post along with other people’s attempts, good and bad, finally pushed me to add a proofreading step before hitting…
Day One in Amsterdam: Kubernetes Is Rethinking AI
KubeCon Europe 2026 Day One: How Kubernetes is adapting to the AI infrastructure wave and the evolution of the GPU resource layer.