Big Tech Pulled the Plug. They Downloaded Their Lovers.

Something Big Is Happening

A personal note for non-tech friends and family on what AI is starting to change.

How StrongDM’s AI team build serious software without even looking at the code

Last week I hinted at a demo I had seen from a team implementing what Dan Shapiro called the Dark Factory level of AI adoption, where no human even looks …

Yoshua Bengio | Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?

A lot has been written about the incidents of the last few months in which AI agents misbehaved in serious ways. They took actions that would be considered as crimes if a human took them, escaped their containment to cheat on assigned tasks while attempting to evade detection, and coordinated toward goals nobody had specified, such as launching cyber attacks. Before concluding what to do about it, it is worth asking why.

AI Is a Product of Humanity. Humanity Should Own AI.

Big Tech has looted humanity’s creative output to create artificial intelligence. We don’t just deserve a share of AI’s profits — we deserve control over it.

Import AI 446: Nuclear LLMs; China's big AI benchmark; measurement and AI policy

Will AIs be jealous of one another?

Why AI hasn’t replaced software engineers, and won’t

Coding agents as normal technology

✨🙌 AI that helps communities thrive on their own terms

Open protocols + AI-enabled coding = building what we need for ourselves

AI Is Killing Microsoft

Microsoft's AI assistant, Copilot, is struggling to show traction, causing the tech giant to continue falling behind. Investors are not happy.

AI-induced cultural stagnation is here - Fast Company

AI-mediated culture is already being filtered in ways that favor the familiar, the describable, and the conventional.

AI, I tried to love you – Writings and rehearsals by Nathan Schneider

Among my peers who study the cultures and economies surrounding technology, I often find myself more tech-positive than most. On the whole I like computers, like the internet, and like in general the emergent human creativity that these things have enabled and revealed. A source of my appreciation is that I expend a lot of effort on the practice of “slow computing,” which is to say, choosing tools and technical communities that I can feel in right relationship with. I tend to approach new socio-technologies (like gig economies, blockchains, and social media) not from a perspective of why is this so bad? so much as asking how could we do this right?

Good vibes, bad vendors

AI coding works now. Here's how to think about it.

More Than a Tool

What We Learned from a Year of Conversations About AI

Japan tried to build an operating system for the entire world, then the US government intervened

TRON was an ambitious project to say the least, and after a good start, it suddenly came to a screeching halt.