Slowness is a virtue(blog.jakobschwichtenberg.com)

216 points by jakobgreenfeld 10 months ago | 72 comments

How to do things if you're not that smart and don't have any talent(adaobi.substack.com)

255 points by mhb 2 years ago | 135 comments

AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)(rickmanelius.com)

973 points by mooreds 2 months ago | 588 comments

A Substack newsletter post by Rick Manelius about the "AI;DR" acronym as a way to ignore walls of AI-generated text, crediting a tweet by @seclilc.

AlphaProof's Greatest Hits(rishimehta.xyz)

238 points by rishicomplex 1 year ago | 123 comments

Regex Isn't Hard (2023)(timkellogg.me)

58 points by asicsp 1 year ago | 67 comments

Things I learned from 5 years at Vercel(leerob.com)

104 points by gk1 1 year ago | 27 comments

I miss thinking hard(jernesto.com)

1166 points by jernestomg 8 months ago | 633 comments

A personal blog post venting that the author rarely spends days thinking hard about difficult problems anymore, tagged as an opinion piece on AI.

Troubleshooting: A skill that never goes obsolete(autodidacts.io)

351 points by surprisetalk 1 year ago | 117 comments

An essay on The Autodidacts blog arguing that troubleshooting, systematically finding and fixing causes of unwanted system behaviour, is a domain-agnostic skill.

AI makes the easy part easier and the hard part harder(blundergoat.com)

441 points by weaksauce 8 months ago | 295 comments

A blog article on blundergoat.com arguing AI makes easy work easier and hard work harder; the captured page shows a 404 Page not found error.

How to do the thing you've been avoiding(jasonfeifer.beehiiv.com)

469 points by duck 3 years ago | 201 comments

A One Thing Better newsletter post by Jason Feifer on how to tackle tasks or ideas you've been avoiding, questioning whether there's a good reason to avoid them.

We don't know how bad most things are nor precisely how they're bad(lesswrong.com)

329 points by surprisetalk 2 years ago | 256 comments

A LessWrong essay arguing that most people can't perceive how bad most things are or exactly how they fall short without domain expertise.

Excellence is a habit, but so is failure(awesomekling.github.io)

702 points by dvrp 3 years ago | 223 comments

A personal blog essay by Andreas Kling arguing that small incremental neglect and poor choices accumulate into failure just as small improvements build excellence.