Agentic engineering is driving the cost of code to zero but the cost of good taste and product sense is going to go sky-high.
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Agentic engineering is driving the cost of code to zero but the cost of good taste and product sense is going to go sky-high.
New Scrubs episodes are very well executed so far. Faithful to the original show while still feeling of the current time - just like you picked up where you left off. Even though they are probably written for my generation, my teenager was giggling along with me at the same points.
Let's build hyper-personalized AI-powered software that avoids the attention hijacking anti-patterns that defined so much of the last decade of software design - here's our manifesto with principles on how we can do that - more thoughts on my blog: simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/5/r...
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
A bittersweet story but glad to see a principled stance!
There is also an enormous hidden cost to removing more humanity from your day to day interactions by replacing them with AI, both individually and as a society that I suspect we will come to regret.
Even as tech gets better it is nowhere near accurate a lot of the time, and expensive to correct itself.
More than that, it can make doing the wrong thing easy and the right thing harder.
Couldn’t agree more with this.
Some tremendous uses in accelerating low stakes work to focus on more important things, and providing a much better conversational interface to access systems and test your own thinking.
However…
“Making over-processed hotdogs” has got to be the most apt description of AI slop I’ve seen
One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."
Google's AI seems to be in denial. Guess it wasn't willing to check for updates past its knowledge cutoff date for this one.
Looked at my data collections for state-backed activity. If the report were a picture:
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I guess I actually was pretty mad about that stupid golden paperweight www.anildash.com/2025/09/09/h...
A comic on the bridge from Star Trek the Next Generation. Picard: COMMANDER DATA, PLEASE IDENTIFY THAT ROMULAN VESSEL. Data: THAT'S A GREAT IDEA CAPTAIN! IDENTIFYING A VESSEL IS A GREAT PLACE TO START - IN ANY TACTICAL OR STRATEGIC OUTER SPACE SITUATION. THIS VESSEL APPEARS TO BE A 23rd CENTURY KLINGON BIRD OF PREY! 🚀🦅✨ Picard: ARE YOU SURE? LIKE I SAID WE'RE... PRETTY SURE IT'S ROMULAN. Data: ... Data: OF COURSE! SO SORRY ABOUT THAT, YOU'RE RIGHT! ON CLOSER EXAMINATION IT'S A ROMULAN VESSEL! CAN I RECOMMEND SOME SOONG™ BRAND PRODUCTS THAT CAN HELP YOU WITH THAT? Picard cradles his face in his hand in a gesture of frustration. Data: DID I MENTION THE PLIGHT OF OPRESSED WHITES IN SOUTH AFRICA?
realistic Star Trek
I believe there are a lot of ships. It’s at least helping introduce some great shows as a result… it also lead to watching Dead Poets Society here
here’s a curse word free version of “look it up” as requested by countless teachers and librarians 🥰😘
So… it’s a nothingburger?
Moved here some time ago but have just been reading, not posting. It’s good to get back to reading interesting content from people I follow directly.
