Why I stopped using JSON for my APIs(aloisdeniel.com)

133 points by barremian 10 months ago | 151 comments

Slowness is a virtue(blog.jakobschwichtenberg.com)

216 points by jakobgreenfeld 10 months ago | 72 comments

“True” Randomness vs. “Pseudo” Randomness(pcg-random.org)

53 points by memorable 3 years ago | 39 comments

The Stupid Programmer Manifesto(hasen.substack.com)

166 points by hsn915 3 years ago | 171 comments

The Demise of the Flynn Effect(cremieux.xyz)

7 points by smnthermes 1 year ago | 0 comments

Problems in Gemini's Approach to Diversity(noahpinion.blog)

33 points by turadg 2 years ago | 11 comments

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.

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.

A startup doesn't need to be a unicorn(mattgiustwilliamson.substack.com)

538 points by MattSWilliamson 1 year ago | 324 comments

A Substack essay arguing that startups don't need to aim for unicorn-scale valuations; the page failed to load and showed an error message.

We have used too many levels of abstractions(unixsheikh.com)

674 points by riidom 3 years ago | 427 comments

An opinion essay on unixsheikh.com arguing that the software industry relies on too many layers of abstraction, leaving few people who understand how the underlying technology works.

The Bitter Lesson Is Misunderstood(obviouslywrong.substack.com)

335 points by JnBrymn 1 year ago | 218 comments

A Substack essay arguing the Bitter Lesson is really about data rather than compute, citing scaling laws where compute scales with data squared.

There is no epidemic of loneliness, but there is an epidemic of scurvy(experimental-history.com)

59 points by luu 1 month ago | 31 comments

An Experimental History Substack essay by Adam Mastroianni arguing there is no loneliness epidemic but there is an epidemic of scurvy.