The Jokes AI Won’t Tell
“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.”
Technology
Friction and being touched
Do we want frictionless world? “LLMs cannot really do people’s jobs – they might be able to kinda do very small parts, especially if quality is not a criterium – but they are always presented as suc” https://tante.cc/2025/07/30/friction-and-not-being-touched/
Writing a Text Editor
It is not as easy as you would think
The Leverage Arbitrage: Why Everything Feels Broken
Quick and interesting thoughts on labor vs. the world “A small team at TikTok can alter the attention patterns of a billion teenagers in months. Meanwhile, educational institutions need years just to update their curricula, and democratic governments require decades… Read More »The Leverage Arbitrage: Why Everything Feels Broken
Efficiency Paradox
How most stuff is a waste and how it kills the world.
AI Downsides
It is also about breaking culture and common understanding “It turns out we don’t use code review to prevent errors. We use it to help other developers understand and accept our proposed changes to the source code. It is a… Read More »AI Downsides
Manufactured Consensus
This is what I dislike most about LLMs “Large language models are manufacturing consensus on a planetary scale. Fine tuned for “helpfulness”, they nod along to our every hunch, buff our pet theories, hand us flawless prose proving whatever we… Read More »Manufactured Consensus
AI Disaster is Coming
Just wait for it. The first big AI disaster is yet to happen https://www.seangoedecke.com/the-first-big-ai-disaster/
Don’t Panic, but Douglas Adams Predicted All of This
Just read the article. “Then the internet came along, and that internet, naturally enough, was contaminated with fourteen-year-olds. We didn’t realize this because fourteen-year-olds used to be relegated to the corners of society.” “Do I hate Google with the heat… Read More »Don’t Panic, but Douglas Adams Predicted All of This
Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Aviation
You always learn on the job https://flightaware.engineering/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-aviation/