OpenAI Shoves a Data Journalist and Violates Federal Law(aarongreenspan.substack.com)

67 points by thinkcomp 2 years ago | 24 comments

Sam Altman's pants are on fire(garymarcus.substack.com)

119 points by toomuchtodo 11 months ago | 49 comments

Two Kinds of Techno-Optimism(garymarcus.substack.com)

139 points by simonebrunozzi 3 years ago | 80 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.

Music, teeth, and AI but not all at once(erikheintare.substack.com)

3 points by erikhhhh 1 year ago | 0 comments

Top AIs still fail IQ tests(maximumtruth.org)

30 points by FergusArgyll 2 years ago | 46 comments

We're Missing a Key Reason Why Americans Hate AI(derekthompson.org)

11 points by abe94 24 days ago | 8 comments

A paid Substack essay by Derek Thompson arguing the AI buildout has raised costs rather than delivering cheap abundance, fueling American hostility to AI.

AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain(davidepiffer.com)

524 points by rzk 2 months ago | 452 comments

A Substack essay by Davide Piffer arguing that AI's edge over mathematicians comes from a vast symbolic working memory rather than superior reasoning.

Nobody knows how to build with AI yet(worksonmymachine.substack.com)

475 points by Stwerner 1 year ago | 368 comments

Scott Werner's Substack essay arguing nobody yet knows how to build software with AI, drawing on building Protocollie in four days without touching the code.

AI Made Writing Code Easier. It Made Being an Engineer Harder(ivanturkovic.com)

343 points by saikatsg 7 months ago | 242 comments

Blog post by Ivan Turkovic arguing that AI tools make producing code easier while making the broader job of being a software engineer harder.

I let an AI run my startup for a week(daily.tinyprojects.dev)

45 points by tinyprojects 12 days ago | 43 comments

A personal blog post describing a week of letting an AI agent team (Grok Bot, similar to OpenClaw) running on a Linux server operate the author's startup.

AI is making me dumb(jpain.io)

407 points by Eighth 5 months ago | 247 comments

A personal blog post in which a software developer argues that relying on AI for writing code, articles, and documents is eroding his own writing and programming skills.