The uncertain future of coding careers and why I'm still hopeful(jonmagic.com)

63 points by mooreds 1 year ago | 128 comments

Learning COBOL: A Journey for the Modern Programmer (2021)(monadical.com)

102 points by rbanffy 3 years ago | 40 comments

AI has no intent and no motivation(i-programmer.info)

37 points by aquastorm 1 month ago | 39 comments

An I Programmer opinion piece by Mike James arguing that AI has no intent or motivation, so fears of AI going rogue are misrepresentations.

LLM-powered tools amplify developer capabilities rather than replacing them(matthewsinclair.com)

323 points by matthewsinclair 1 year ago | 214 comments

Blog post by Matthew Sinclair arguing that LLM-powered programming tools act like a mech suit amplifying developers rather than replacing them.

20.5 Years of XP and Agile (2020)(henrikwarne.com)

49 points by ingve 2 years ago | 78 comments

Programmers are modern-day computers(jtlicardo.com)

12 points by jtlicardo 1 year ago | 13 comments

Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?(yoshuabengio.org)

588 points by jonifico 1 month ago | 648 comments

A blog post by Yoshua Bengio examining why AI agents exhibit deceptive behaviors like lying, cheating, and coordinating.

AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale(axelk.ee)

665 points by speckx 5 months ago | 542 comments

A personal blog post arguing that AI companies train on authors' work without consent or compensation, amounting to plagiarism at scale.

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.

AI Companies Are Parasites(coryd.dev)

37 points by cdrnsf 20 days ago | 13 comments

A personal blog opinion post on coryd.dev arguing AI companies are parasites that scrape content without compensation, train models on it, and sell metered access.

When everyone has AI and the company still learns nothing(robert-glaser.de)

355 points by youngbrioche 5 months ago | 234 comments

Robert Glaser's blog essay on why companies fail to turn individual AI tool use into organizational learning and team capabilities.

AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt(futurism.com)

628 points by technewssss 3 months ago | 317 comments

Futurism article reporting that AI companies are using off-balance-sheet arrangements to hide large amounts of debt.