For algorithms, a little memory outweighs a lot of time(quantamagazine.org)

311 points by makira 1 year ago | 103 comments

Alexander Grothendieck Revolutionized 20th-Century Mathematics(quantamagazine.org)

124 points by anujbans 5 months ago | 26 comments

Why Computer Scientists Consult Oracles(quantamagazine.org)

13 points by GavCo 1 year ago | 4 comments

Busy beaver hunters reach numbers that overwhelm ordinary math(quantamagazine.org)

213 points by defrost 1 year ago | 78 comments

Quantum Scientists Have Built a New Math of Cryptography(quantamagazine.org)

23 points by DocFeind 1 year ago | 5 comments

The Researcher Who Explores Computation by Conjuring New Worlds(quantamagazine.org)

31 points by EA-3167 2 years ago | 0 comments

Artificial intelligence is losing hype(economist.com)

453 points by bx376 2 years ago | 663 comments

An Economist Free exchange column arguing that artificial intelligence is losing hype and asking whether that signals the technology will eventually succeed.

The new skill in AI is not prompting, it's context engineering(philschmid.de)

832 points by robotswantdata 1 year ago | 467 comments

Blog post by Philipp Schmid arguing that context engineering, supplying LLMs with the right information and tools, matters more than prompting for AI agents.

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.

The future of software development is software developers(codemanship.wordpress.com)

376 points by cdrnsf 10 months ago | 471 comments

A Codemanship blog post arguing that the future of software development still depends on human software developers.

Personal software factories are a waste of time(peterp.me)

63 points by thegreatpeter 7 days ago | 64 comments

A blog post arguing software engineers should not spend time building personal AI-driven software factories and should instead build actual products.

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.