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

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 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.

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.

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.

Recent AI models struggled to match a human algorithmic innovation(epoch.ai)

85 points by merksittich 17 days ago | 64 comments

Epoch AI report by David Owen presenting InnovationEval, finding early evidence that AI models cannot yet automate AI R&D or match human algorithmic innovation.

The AI coding trap(chrisloy.dev)

618 points by chrisloy 1 year ago | 377 comments

Blog post by Chris Loy arguing that AI coding tools speed up typing code but risk neglecting the problem-solving that is the real work of software development.