Richard Dawkins: Philosophical Dead Ends(lareviewofbooks.org)

7 points by HR01 1 year ago | 0 comments

Melons and Melancholy: Review of Steven Shapin's "Eating and Being"(lareviewofbooks.org)

3 points by pepys 1 year ago | 0 comments

Mindless Machines, Mindless Myths(lareviewofbooks.org)

31 points by lermontov 1 year ago | 0 comments

Melons and Melancholy: "Eating and Being" illuminates the dynamics of dietetics(lareviewofbooks.org)

12 points by crescit_eundo 1 year ago | 0 comments

Isengard in Oxford(lareviewofbooks.org)

98 points by lermontov 10 months ago | 14 comments

Weird Nonfiction(lareviewofbooks.org)

65 points by samclemens 2 years ago | 19 comments

We mourn our craft(nolanlawson.com)

634 points by ColinWright 8 months ago | 737 comments

Nolan Lawson's blog post lamenting how AI coding tools are reducing programmers to code reviewers and mourning the loss of the programming craft.

Fabrice Bellard: The Ghost in the Code(zbruceli.org)

5 points by ptidhomme 19 days ago | 0 comments

A long-form blog essay profiling Fabrice Bellard, the reclusive programmer behind widely used software like FFmpeg and QEMU.

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.

Private equity is buying everything from vet offices to tech conglomerates(theverge.com)

482 points by Brajeshwar 3 years ago | 312 comments

A Verge Decoder interview with prosecutor Brendan Ballou on how private equity buys companies from vet offices to tech firms, why the system is broken, and fixes.

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.

Thoughts on thinking(dcurt.is)

588 points by bradgessler 1 year ago | 367 comments

Dustin Curtis's blog essay reflecting on how AI and LLMs have made his own writing, coding, and creative thinking feel pointless.