If GPUs Are So Good, Why Do We Still Use CPUs at All?(codingstuff.substack.com)

73 points by teddywahle 1 year ago | 46 comments

LA wildfires disinformation reveals limits of fact-checking(weaponizedspaces.substack.com)

17 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 12 comments

Making an intersection unsafe for pedestrians to save seconds for drivers(collegetowns.substack.com)

266 points by raybb 1 year ago | 356 comments

TBM 333: Lean Graph Theory(cutlefish.substack.com)

19 points by duck 1 year ago | 4 comments

Traffic spikes are bad for your product(andrewchen.substack.com)

64 points by twapi 1 year ago | 68 comments

Why I'm quitting the Washington Post(anntelnaes.substack.com)

95 points by danso 1 year ago | 26 comments

Every SaaS business will become a harness around a model(blog.sshh.io)

117 points by iacguy 23 days ago | 85 comments

Substack essay by Shrivu Shankar arguing that every SaaS business will become a harness wrapping AI models with tooling and state.

If you are useful, it doesn't mean you are valued(betterthanrandom.substack.com)

748 points by weltview 1 year ago | 334 comments

A Better than Random Substack essay arguing that being useful at work is different from being valued, and that the distinction can be subtle.

Practical UX for startups surviving without a designer(tibinotes.com)

387 points by tb8424 1 year ago | 156 comments

A Substack essay by Tibi Iorga on how startups can work out their user experience without a dedicated designer, time, or budget.

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.

LLMs work best when the user defines their acceptance criteria first(blog.katanaquant.com)

411 points by dnw 7 months ago | 368 comments

Substack essay from Vagabond Research arguing that LLMs produce plausible rather than correct code, using a simple database primary key lookup test as an example.

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.