LLMs are a 400-year-long confidence trick(tomrenner.com)

70 points by Growtika 9 months ago | 85 comments

Calling Their Bluff(anguscheng.com)

70 points by 4pkjai 1 year ago | 38 comments

Story Behind Hackathon Photo(frantic.im)

98 points by imadj 3 years ago | 41 comments

The One Thing I Can’t Stand About Teaching English in Japan (2019)(geekstravelinjapan.wordpress.com)

66 points by insightcheck 3 years ago | 52 comments

Intentionally Making Close Friends (2021)(neelnanda.io)

298 points by fi-le 1 year ago | 89 comments

White-Collar AI Apocalypse Narrative Is Just Another Bullshit(martynasm.com)

40 points by mmiliauskas 7 months ago | 27 comments

LLMs Aren't Inevitable(deadsimpletech.com)

27 points by rizsyed1 16 days ago | 32 comments

Blog post by Iris Meredith on deadSimpleTech arguing that AI and LLM adoption is not inevitable, calling the claim a thought-terminating cliché.

Non-Determinism Doesn't Matter(sklar.rocks)

50 points by sklarsa 12 days ago | 53 comments

A blog post arguing that the non-deterministic output of LLMs is not a real obstacle to using AI as a primary software development tool.

Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft(writings.hongminhee.org)

541 points by dahlia 7 months ago | 539 comments

Blog essay arguing that AI-assisted clean-room reimplementation, as with chardet 7.0 relicensed from LGPL to MIT, may be legal but erodes the legitimacy of copyleft.

The anti-abundance critique on housing is wrong(derekthompson.org)

474 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 717 comments

Derek Thompson Substack essay arguing that antitrust critics blaming homebuilder monopolies for America's housing problems are wrong.

The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening(twitter.com)

662 points by albertzeyer 14 days ago | 963 comments

A post by Andrej Karpathy on X arguing that the gap in understanding of LLM capability is widening into a funnel, from non-users to professional users of coding agents.

'VPNs are lawful technical tools,' says EU Court in landmark copyright ruling(remysharp.com)

371 points by speckx 2 months ago | 136 comments

A blog bookmark post by Remy Sharp commenting on an EU Court of Justice ruling that VPNs are lawful technical tools, in the context of UK child-protection and privacy debates.