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.
Our minds aren’t equipped to handle AI
AI is junk food for the mind: easy, tempting and ultimately very bad for you.
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.
The Economy Has Spoken: Stuff That’s AI-Generated Has Almost Zero Value
3D assets marketplace CGTrader is being flooded by AI slop, but nobody is buying it, suggesting AI isn't "repricing the market."
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.
Character.ai's Bankruptcy Documents Show the Economics of AI Don't Work
Character.ai enshittified its product but was still burning tons of cash, its bankruptcy documents say.
Your Game Is A Harness - k-hole
Exploring practical ways to make your game more legible to AI agents and how to make agentic iteration faster.
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
AI is Maybe Sometimes Better than Nothing
Reporting on that World Bank Nigeria paper
