An AI engineer working outside academia says he has deciphered Linear A, a Bronze Age writing system from Minoan Crete.
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
Is there something it is like to be an AI?
Posted on Wednesday 2 Jul 2025. 1,593 words, 6 links. By Matt Webb.
Ars Technica Pulls Article With AI Fabricated Quotes About AI Generated Article
A story about an AI generated article contained fabricated, AI generated quotes.
There are no lossless transformations of natural-language text
In my work at Clay I recently wrote an internal policy on acceptable use of AI writing by engineers, and I’m sharing it here. It’s my hope that one day better AI tools might be able to help us think, but until then I fear that using AI to write does the exact opposite.
Aristotle Explorations Inc.
San Francisco Bay Area software company working on creating the machine that creates the machine.
The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019–2025
An inside view of the AI revolution, from the people an…
The Crooked Timber of AI
The philosophical perils of conflating discoveries and inventions, and how to overcome them
Stuck in the middle: Being an engineer & artist in the AI era | Annie Sexton | Offprint
I'm an AI skeptic, through and through. But I also voluntarily use AI nearly every day. So naturally, you might be asking: what the heck?
Builder.ai did not “fake AI with 700 engineers”
The claim that the AI startup “faked AI” with hundreds of engineers went viral – and I also fell for it, initially. The reality is much more sobering: Builder.ai built a code generator on top of Claude and other LLMs; it did not build a so-called “Mechanical Turk.”
AI And The Ship of Theseus
Slopforks: what happens when a library gets rewritten with AI?
Andrej Karpathy Stopped Using AI to Write Code. He’s Using It to Build a Second Brain Instead
His new workflow turns raw research into a self-maintaining wiki.No vector databases, no RAG pipelines, just markdown files and an LLM that…
AI for coding works so well because code has a bunch of built in self checks that allow an agent trained with reinforcement learning to find what works and what doesn’t. This will not so easily translate to eg machine design until we have way better simulations or much more “embodied AI” (robots).
AI* transcription
This is something I’m likely to consider using, or, I don’t know, maybe not? * I’m neither “pro-AI” nor “anti-AI.” I’ve been blocked for being perceived as both. —Actually, I’m honestly more anti-AI than pro-AI thus far, aside from specialized models and specific use cases, but I’m willing to consider information that’s new to me
Machine translation
Both AI and non-AI. To clarify my position, I don’t trust machine translation (based on Japanese-to-English and vice versa, but especially the former) and believe it should be reserved for personal use only and definitely not anything public-facing by a company/government/etc. that should have the budget to hire a translator.
What Google Translate Gets Wrong
ChatGPT Has ‘Goblin’ Mania in the US. In China It Will ‘Catch You Steadily’
Wikipedia:LLM-assisted translation
Wikipedia:Writing articles with large language models
Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content
OKA - Wiki pages tracker (oka.wiki/tracker)
A Court Reporter Submitted AI-Generated Errors in Official Court Transcript, Judge Says
Class-action suit claims Otter AI secretly records private work conversations
AI Meeting Recording Laws by State: Complete Guide (2026)
