







We asked five AI assistants 200 questions that call for a number and followed 1,285 of the statistics they cited back to the source.
How Much of the Internet Is Written With AI?
In a random sample of 10,000 webpages collected in July 2026, one-in-ten show signs of being written or substantially edited by AI.


Is there something it is like to be an AI?
Posted on Wednesday 2 Jul 2025. 1,593 words, 6 links. By Matt Webb.

Monthly Roundup #45: August 2026
As AI has escalated increasingly quickly, more and more of my posts have ended up focusing on AI.

"AI" and Productivity
[I keep bringing these up on Bluesky, so I think it’s time to gather them up and make a post out of them.] This is a collection of articles...
AI | 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey
84% of respondents are using or planning to use AI tools in their development process, an increase over last year (76%). This year we can see 51% of professional developers use AI tools daily.

AI History in Quotes
Each of these presents the clearest, earliest, or most-cited statement of a specific idea in AI.

Creepy crawlies — Konstantin Ryabitsev
You've probably heard me complain about the "AI crawlers" before, but now I actually have some hard numbers I can put up to show their im...

AI-generated responses are undermining crowdsourced research studies
Many answers to online research questions show signs of being generated by AI chatbots, raising doubts about the validity of behavioural data collected this way

What Americans See About AI Online
One month of web browsing data shows most respondents visited a search page with an AI-generated summary, but visits to in-depth content about AI were much rarer.


AI #190: Scion of the Times
The amount of code being written at Anthropic continues to rise exponentially.

staysaasy on Twitter / X
The degree to which you are awed by AI is perfectly correlated with how much you use AI to code.— staysaasy (@staysaasy) April 9, 2026
233. "The Illusion of Thinking" — Thoughts on This Important Paper
This is a fantastic paper. I just love it. tl;dr AI is not human. Anthropomorphization has been bad for AI, LLMs, and Chat. Clippy walked so today's AI could run.

Scary New Report: Just 8 Percent of People Check AI Answers
It's time to talk with your people about best practices for using artificial intelligence.

AI vs human code gen report: AI code creates 1.7x more issues
We analyzed 470 open-source GitHub pull requests, using CodeRabbit’s structured issue taxonomy and found that AI generated code creates 1.7x more issues.
