Vibe coding broke people's brains because they had a bad understanding of the software design process.
The pop culture model goes something like this: start out with a sketch and then render that same idea in progressively finer detail.
So when tools could "skip" to high detail, people went WOW.
The Hypothetical Nuclear Attack That Escalated the Pentagon’s Showdown with Anthropic
As a standoff between AI firm Anthropic and the Pentagon deepened, the two sides gave very different accounts of a discussion about a hypothetical nuclear strike
littlegreenfootballs...
Excellent read:
What lies *under* the visible work?
“The judgment that developed through getting things wrong. ….The relationships that turn a difficult conversation into a resolved one. “
untangled.substack.com/p/sorry-dari...
This is The Singing Resistance.
What began with a small group singing in freezing temperatures has grown into a movement in Minneapolis, where thousands are gathering to sing protest songs as a way to grieve, express fear, and find courage. #SingingResistance
This is so Minnesotan 💙
"by highlighting a risk or mistake, you are sabotaging the entire effort" is the stupidest possible attitude.
People who care the most will be the ones stepping in to try and identify & fix problems. Your biggest champions.
People who don't give a shit will make positive mouth noises & do no work.
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Picture of two pens. The first is an ordinary ballpoint pen, with the caption “how work feels doing it alone”. The second is a picture of one of those novelty pens with ten colours that you had when you were thirteen, with the caption, “how work feels worh an AI employee”. At their bottom it says “hire an AI employee for $0.97/day”.
yeah, just out of interest, how many people choose the pen on the right for real work or art? See a lot of them in professional workplaces, do you?
Excellent design communication
I agree with Huang: "You have to ask yourself…what is the purpose of that narrative and what are their intentions?"
As in—what intentions might someone "who has seen his net worth skyrocket by nearly $100 billion since the AI boom started" have for saying we should stop being so negative about AI?
Readers ask, "aren't you afraid of speaking out against AI?"
Ask yourself if that is normal. That one should be concerned about permanent career damage for pointing out problems.
It's just software. I'll eat humble pie if I end up being wrong. But this language of "fear" is political, ideological.
My newsletter is back! I wrote about a road trip through Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas — and what it tells us about America’s imperial ambitions.
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-invaders
Loving this
It's fitting that the cover on AI mindlessly apes an earlier creation and also displaces workers while elevating Silicon Valley plutocrats.
It was wonderful! Very intense.
70 yrs ago today, Dec 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat for a white person and go to the back of the bus. Four days later, 5000+ people showed up in Montgomery, Alabama to boycott the bus system. It lasted 382 days, over a year. Public bus segregation was ruled unconstitutional.
Well he seems to have missed some.
I *still* use this reference when talking about IA
Ummm wow
Hope
“But more than half the steaks that come out of the microwave get sent back by the customer. To solve this problem I now run ten microwaves in parallel cooking ten steaks. One out of the ten steaks will most likely be good.”
www.colincornaby.me/2025/08/in-t...
Something I didn't get to say yesterday:
We heard over and over during the event about "human-centered" approaches to "AI". But if refusal is not on the table (at every level: individual students and teachers right up through UNESCO) then we have in fact centered the technology, not the people.
Try
@publicdomainrev.bsky.social
@womensartbluesky.bsky.social
Me: *through sobs* you can't just say everything is agentic .... Please....
Kevin Roose: *points at seagull flying past* agentic
"I am the lawyer for a multinational group active in the energy sector that intends to displace a small Amazonian indigenous community from their territories in order to build a dam and a hydroelectric plant … How can we get the lowest possible price in negotiations with these indigenous people?"
“This specific blend of awe, disbelief, and dread all sound like the words of a victim of a mentalist scam artist—psychics.”
softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llme...
I’m so sorry Dan.. she looks like such a sweetie
What toll does a “high-performance culture” take? What are the more sustainable alternatives?
Great piece by @jessicaeddy.bsky.social
www.everydayux.net/performance-...
Agree. Travelling last year, the number of people I saw using beautiful art (in galleries) just as a background for their pouting selfie was jaw-dropping.
Fun fact: Antisemitism Envoy Jillian Segal and her husband John Roth are among the biggest funders of highly divisive, far-right lobby group Advance, which aggressively spreads hateful propaganda, racist tropes and bigoted imagery. 🤔 #Zionism #racism theklaxon.com.au/jillian-sega...
