







Who will take over for us if we don't train the next generation to replace us? A critique of craft, AI, and the legacy of human expertise.
The people who actually want AI to replace humanity
We need to create a new humanism before the “AI successionists” win.

The people who actually want AI to replace humanity
We need to create a new humanism before the “AI successionists” win.

The future belongs to those who can refute AI, not just generate with AI
Why verification, not prompting, could shape the next decade of engineering

AI’s Next Chapter Requires Human Expertise
The future of AI doesn’t just require technical skills; it demands deep human expertise, writes Annie K. Lamar.


Resetting on engineering expectations in the age of AI
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B. Scot Rousse: "Language, Technology, & Care"
The Age of Wonders and Terrors
Twenty years ago, when the idea of AI taking over the world in our lifetimes still struck most of us as the unconstrained fantasy of those who knew too much science fiction and too little science, …
Intelligence Rising
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is expected to be one of the most transformative technologies in human history.

WDR 2026: The Promise of Artificial Intelligence
The World Development Report 2026 explores how artificial intelligence is reshaping development as a general‑purpose technology.

The Era of Experience & The Age of Design: Richard S. Sutton, Upper Bound 2025

AI Angst
My input stream is full of it: Fear and loathing and cheerleading and prognosticating on what generative AI means and whether it’s Good or Bad and what we should be doing. All the channels: Blogs and peer-reviewed papers and social-media posts and business-news stories. So there’s lots of AI angst out there, but this is mine. I think the following is a bit unique because it focuses on cost, working backward from there. As for the genAI tech itself, I guess I’m a moderate; there is a there there, it’s not all slop. But first…

AI made me doubt everything about programming by Felienne Hermans - DDD Europe 2026
AI made me doubt everything about programming by Felienne Hermans - DDD Europe 2026
What we can’t measure about AI – yet | Aeon Essays
The costs of transformative innovations are immediately clear: it’s the longterm gains that are hardest to understand
