Planes don’t fly themselves – they just cruise themselves. Takeoff, landing, and the big decisions happen with humans. Same with AI. What are the ground decisions in the software factor…
AI Sycophancy and Decisions
We examine whether sycophantic AI advice distorts decisions. Our experiment involves 1,500 participants in 30 decision environments spanning core domains in eco
The New Software Lifecycle
I co-wrote a Google whitepaper about how AI is changing the software lifecycle. I'm not going to summarize the whole thing. Instead, here are the handful of ...
Our minds aren’t equipped to handle AI
AI is junk food for the mind: easy, tempting and ultimately very bad for you.
AIRO (Automated AI Risk Outlook)
AI Makes Better Software
Don't use AI to ship software faster. Use it to ship better software.
LukeW | Common AI Product Issues
At this point, almost every software domain has launched or explored AI features. Despite the wide range of use cases, most of these implementations have been t...
Are We Thinking Correctly About AI Intelligence? | Quanta Magazine
Computer scientist Melanie Mitchell discusses why artificial intelligence doesn’t “think” or “reason” like humans, and how we can create better methods for measuring machine cognition.
Angels-on-the-Shoulder: 5 AI Tools for Better Decisions
Five “angels-on-the-shoulder” AI designs that help people make better decisions.
Who decides when AI is too dangerous?
Anthropic asked for AI regulation, but not like this.
10 things I learned from burning myself out with AI coding agents
Opinion: As software power tools, AI agents may make people busier than ever before.
Infrastructure in the Age of AI Gatekeepers
What happens when AI agents choose your stack
Agent Skills
AI coding agents take the shortest path to done, which usually means skipping the specs, tests, and reviews that make software reliable at scale. Agent Skill...
Understanding Confidence Threshold in AI Systems
Learn how confidence threshold works as a decision boundary in AI systems. Discover the key mechanics that determine automated processing versus human review.
On Taste, Effort & Curiosity - again
When AI collapses how long it takes to ship, what’s left is judgment, experimentation, and knowing what not to build.