Focusing only on headcount reduction is like saying the only value of a car is that you don’t have to pay for a horse.
Comprehension Debt - the hidden cost of AI generated code.
Comprehension debt is the hidden cost to human intelligence and memory resulting from excessive reliance on AI and automation. For engineers, it applies most to agentic engineering.
AI is probably not a bubble
AI companies have revenue, demand, and paths to immense value
AI is probably not a bubble
AI companies have revenue, demand, and paths to immense value
Less is more, more or less
In the age of AI, knowing what not to build might be the most important skill of all.
Uber Caps Usage of AI Tools Like Claude Code to Manage Costs
I wrote the other day about Uber blowing its 2026 AI budget in four months, and how that wasn't particularly surprising given they would have set that budget in 2025, …
We All Hate AI, but if You’re Poor, It Can Really Ruin Your Life
Debt collection. Parole decisions. Oversight of public services. It’s all being outsourced to AI, with terrible consequences for poor people.
Consumer Finance AI Standard
AI (artificial intelligence) is making consequential decisions about consumers’ financial lives, including who gets access to credit, which claims get paid, what financial products consumers are shown, and how users are advised to manage their accounts, among many others. It’s doing this at scale, largely out of sight, and with almost no accountability when it
AI has limits, even if many AI people can't see them
On Ben Recht's fantastic new book
Nothing About Us, Without Us: Disability Justice and AI
Intersectionality, ways that AI can support the disabled, and how we can win the race to make AI more inclusive.
AI is Maybe Sometimes Better than Nothing
Reporting on that World Bank Nigeria paper
The AI productivity myth is more harmful than you think
Perceived productivity may be up thanks to AI, but there's debt collecting in the shadows.
Code Was Never the Asset - The Phoenix Architecture
Why AI makes the hidden economics of software unavoidable
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
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.
