Keep AI Out of Your (Obsidian) Vault
It’s so hard to finish an idea that is not yours and is just suggested by AI.
Five Levels of AI coding
“I’ve now seen dozens of companies struggling to put AI to work writing code, and each one has moved through five clear tiers of automation.”
Link to article “The Five Levels: from Spicy Autocomplete to the Dark Factory”
Is there a better language for AI agents?
“These features and tools were originally built to empower humans, but it turns out that AI and humans have surprisingly similar needs. … But with Go, AI models can leverage the platform’s end-to-end toolchain to operate on Go code faster, cheaper, and more reliably, producing higher-quality, more secure, and more correct code.”
Link to article “Why Go is an ideal language for AI assisted software engineering
AI Gym Hack
Andrew, who was sitting fourth on a waitlist for a class later that week, asked if it was possible to move him to the top of the list. The agent came back and told Andrew that it had kicked another gym-goer off the list as part of the testing of its capabilities.
Asmiov's Profession
George said tensely, “Don’t think this is a joke. Tapes are actually bad. They teach too much; they’re too painless. A man who learns that way doesn’t know how to learn any other way. He’s frozen into whatever position he’s been taped.
Choose Boring Technology
“Let’s say every company gets about three innovation tokens. You can spend these however you want, but the supply is fixed for a long while.”
Madrid Metro
“Madrid tripled the length of its metro system in just 12 years — faster and cheaper than almost any other city in the world.”
GitHub ToLowercase Hack
“GitHub’s forgot password feature could be compromised because the system lowercased the provided email address…”
Marriage Equality and Databases
“Well, that started as a stream of consciousness about equal parts nuptial rights and Structured Query Language and finished up moving into graph theory, something I, for one, did not see coming.”
WHICH PILL DO YOU CHOOSE?
“People’s minds are heartbreaking. Not because people are so bad, but because they’re so good.”