The MacBook Neo(daringfireball.net)

603 points by etothet 7 months ago | 947 comments

John Gruber's Daring Fireball piece on Apple's MacBook Neo, tracing how iPhone A-series chip performance foreshadowed it.

Apple is going to raise device prices, but when?(daringfireball.net)

92 points by tosh 4 months ago | 75 comments

Publishing AI Slop Is a Choice(daringfireball.net)

100 points by mpweiher 2 years ago | 25 comments

Y Combinator's Stake in OpenAI (0.6%?)(daringfireball.net)

313 points by gyomu 5 months ago | 49 comments

“Your frustration is the product”(daringfireball.net)

492 points by llm_nerd 7 months ago | 300 comments

A Daring Fireball post by John Gruber linking Shubham Bose's essay on news sites like the NYT loading 49MB and hundreds of requests, criticizing ad-laden web bloat.

Anthropic's ‘watermark’ text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing(daringfireball.net)

736 points by ropbear 2 months ago | 641 comments

John Gruber's Daring Fireball post criticizing Anthropic's plan to watermark Claude-generated text via word-choice steganography to comply with EU regulation.

Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance(larsfaye.com)

490 points by larsfaye 2 months ago | 479 comments

Blog essay by Lars Faye arguing that reliance on AI coding tools removes the friction needed to develop long-term programming expertise.

Don't build AI products the way everyone else is doing it(builder.io)

469 points by tortilla 3 years ago | 219 comments

Builder.io blog post by Steve Sewell arguing against building AI products as thin LLM wrappers and describing an alternative approach to building them.

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.

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.

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.

Do not fear AI. Fear AI companies(df7sc6o35ljoz.cloudfront.net)

14 points by rDr4g0n 1 month ago | 2 comments

An essay arguing that people should fear the companies building AI rather than AI itself, appealing to readers' intuition that something is wrong.