What Is Happening to Publishing?(resobscura.substack.com)

57 points by benbreen 5 months ago | 40 comments

When the Sackler brothers studied LSD(resobscura.substack.com)

31 points by passing 1 year ago | 2 comments

AI makes the humanities more important, but also weirder(resobscura.substack.com)

258 points by findhorn 1 year ago | 270 comments

OpenAI's "Study Mode" and the risks of flattery(resobscura.substack.com)

101 points by benbreen 1 year ago | 107 comments

The handmade beauty of Machine Age data visualizations(resobscura.substack.com)

41 points by benbreen 6 months ago | 2 comments

All Souls exam questions and the limits of machine reasoning(resobscura.substack.com)

40 points by benbreen 1 year ago | 20 comments

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.

Coding is not solved(blog.alexewerlof.com)

458 points by firstSpeaker 28 days ago | 459 comments

Alex Ewerlöf's opinion essay arguing that AI and LLM coding tools have not solved software coding, drawing on his experience building AI systems.

I don't want to read what you didn't write(blog.colinbreck.com)

952 points by mooreds 1 month ago | 394 comments

Colin Breck's blog essay arguing against reading AI-generated writing such as design documents and summaries, and describing where he finds AI useful.

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.

The force-feeding of AI features on an unwilling public(honest-broker.com)

330 points by imartin2k 1 year ago | 279 comments

Ted Gioia essay on The Honest Broker arguing tech companies are forcing unwanted AI features on users, calling it tyranny rather than innovation.

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.