On AI Coding and Its Discontents - Cal Newport

Back in January, I received a note from a senior software engineer in Silicon Valley. He described himself as an AI skeptic who became converted ... Read more

The Thoughts The Civilized Keep

The hype around a new AI language generator reveals the sterility of mainstream thinking on AI today — and indeed on how we think about thinking itself.

Talking to Windows’ Copilot AI makes a computer feel incompetent

Hey Copilot, are you useful yet?

Demoing the AI computer that doesn't yet exist

A demo of what an AI-native personal computer could look like.

How we use AI at Stalwart

It is difficult to have a conversation about software in 2026 without AI showing up in it. Two years ago the interesting question was…

AI-assisted engineers are burning out, is this fine?—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog

AI-assisted code generation is not free. It comes with a hidden cost: burnout. Are we dangerously ignorant to this problem? And how can we cope with it? In this post, we discuss this question.

The Git-ification of the World — Tim Morrissey

Why AI conquered software first, and what that tells us about which industries are next.

Open source project contains hidden instruction for “AI” agents: delete my code

It’s no secret there’s a war going on inside the open source community, with people adopting “AI” on one side, and those that want nothing to do with it on the other. While the former are, by nature, using destructive tactics like mass website scraping, license washing, taking people’s creative works without permission, taking all the RAM and GPUs, and oh, destroying the planet, the latter have mostly stuck to fairly benign things like policies banning “AI” use, “AI” bot blockers, and the occasional honey pot mazes to trap “AI” crawlers.

Your Software Is Not Sentient

Software simulacrum is not true consciousness, the stripper at the strip club doesn't actually love you, and nearly all of the biggest problems with "AI" have very ordinary human origins.

How AIs See Our World

AIs are increasingly perceiving our world, but in order to comprehend it, our user interfaces must operate in reverse.

AI is An Ideology, Not A Technology

At its core, "artificial intelligence" is a perilous belief that fails to recognize the agency of humans.

Why Hasn’t AI Made Work Easier? - Cal Newport

I’ve been studying the intersection of digital technology and office work for quite some time. (I find it hard to believe that my book, ​Deep ... Read more

How Claude marks AI-generated content | Claude Help Center

Anthropic has signed the EU AI Act's Article 50(2) Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content, as a provider of both generative AI models and generative AI systems. This article describes how we’re planning to put those commitments into practice, how marking works, and what its limitations are. We’ll update this article and publish more detailed technical guidance as it becomes available.