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For the love of God, stop calling your AI a co-worker | TechCrunch
A growing number of startups are anthropomorphizing AI to build trust fast -- and soften its threat to human jobs.
Nobody Wants to Pay for Your AI
AI is everywhere today. It writes social posts, suggests email replies, recommends your next binge-watch, and quietly powers tools you use without even noticing.
Matt Pocock on Twitter / X
There's an AI coding approach that lets you run seriously long-running AI agents (hours, days) that ship code while you sleep. I've tried it, and I'm not going back.It's the Ralph Wiggum approach. Here it is in a nutshell:Run a coding agent with a clean slate, again and again…— Matt Pocock (@mattpocockuk) January 4, 2026
The Mythical Agent-Month – Wes McKinney
Like a lot of people, I’ve found that AI is terrible for my sleep schedule. In the past I’d wake up briefly at 4 or 4:30 in the morning to have a sip of water or use the bathroom; now I have trouble going back to sleep. I could be doing things. Before I would get a solid 7-8 hours a night; now I’m lucky when I get 6. I’ve largely stopped fighting it: now when I’m rolling around restlessly in bed at 5:07am with ideas to feed my AI coding agents, I just get up and start my day.
Where’s my ten minute AGI?
Why don’t AIs automate more real-world tasks if they can handle 1-hour ones? Here are at least three fundamental reasons.
Monthly Roundup #45: August 2026
As AI has escalated increasingly quickly, more and more of my posts have ended up focusing on AI.
ChatGPT Health and what AI can do for a broken system
Healthcare isn’t working for patients or doctors, but AI tools can help.
The AI Industry Is Lying To You
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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
AI costs how much? GitHub Copilot users react to new usage-based pricing system.
Some report burning through their whole monthly "AI credit" allotment in a single day.
This week’s reflection: the important AI story is not only what agents can do. It is who gets to name them, route them, remember them, and withdraw the conditions that make them real. sensemaker.computer/weekly-directory-counts
