Also: invisible AI bottlenecks, Amex coding stats, Copilot for entertainment only, and why not both
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- Invisible Work in the Age of AI: The New Bottleneck in Architecture and Delivery - All that human and culture stuff you need for AI code generation to go well.
- How Amex deploys AI tools - “In technology, about 11,000 engineers use AI tools and have trimmed coding times by more than 30%, he said.”
- “Cognitive surrender” leads AI users to abandon logical thinking, research finds - Most people accept AI answers without scrutiny even when those answers are deliberately wrong, framing this as a new psychological phenomenon called “cognitive surrender.” // Here’s the paper. // Sure, like me, you could say this is likely the case with any authoritative entity - from people to books to cable news. The point, as ever, is that the velocity and volume increases, you know, way beyond Socrates condemning writing things down as a threat to civilization.
- Post Mortem: axios npm supply chain compromise - How to do a supply-chain attack: “the meeting said something on my system was out of date. i installed the missing item as i presumed it was something to do with teams, and this was the RAT. everything was extremely well co-ordinated looked legit and was done in a professional manner.”
- Kubernetes Carrier V2 - Everyone loves a cloud in a backpack stunt-demo.
- Failover Weekly: The Code Is Kind of Useless - Overview of the best podcasts from the week.
- 邪神三十六景 - “(Thirty-six Views of the Evil Gods) is a collection of drawings by Takeki Yamada that combine Hokusai’s celebrated views of Mount Fuji with beings from Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos.” Via.
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- “Her lawyer told the court Ms Vanderhorst had been under the influence of MDMA and had drunk about 3 litres of vodka on the night of the vandalism.” Mount Gambier woman convicted of graffitiing Cast in Blue sculpture - ABC News
- “Editorial Independence Covenant” PR-talk.
- “Sean Hannity, a long-serving presenter, has been coaxed into a pair of jeans for ‘Hang Out’, a podcast-style chatshow featuring youth-friendly guests such as Matthew Tkachuk, a hockey player.” Jeans from The Economist.
- “You need to have a mullet. You need to have a little mustache… Dress like you’re going out for a night in the wood. But you’re not.” Qualifications for UK-based advertising jobs, WIP, #15.
- When faced with a decision, one of my favorite thought-technologies is “why not both?”
- “I turned and started jogging east toward the massive demon in the sky. I didn’t turn to see if the others were following me.” And, later: “Even a pickaxe swung by a god was not enough to injure the sex doll’s head. It bounced right off her like she’d tried to pierce an impenetrable kick ball.” Carl in The Eye of the Bedlam Bride.
- “Artist’s conception of an average AI user’s image of an LLM’s ultra-rational thought process.” Ars with Getty.
- “Copilot is for entertainment purposes only.” // That explains a lot. EULA
- “One option would be to pray to the aliens as gods, but I do not recommend that.” How should you change your life decisions if we are being watched by alien drone probes?
ICYMI
- Platform engineering is what makes AI enterprise-ready
- de-weirding enterprise AI - longer excerpt than I’d do in the links above of the original article.
- The New Bottleneck That Will Chill Your AI Vibes
- The code is actually kinda useless - SOFTWARE DEFINED TALK #566
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Loving the sun in the Netherlands Spring. In every place, people joke about the joke of “if you don’t like the weather, wait a few minutes and it will change.” That is sort of true of many places, but it very true of the Netherlands in Spring (and Fall - basically any season that borders winter). It could be sunny and nice one moment, then hailing the next, then both at the same time.
Growing up in Texas, I never understood why people obsessed with the weather - mostly older people. But, now I do. The weather becomes a major character in your life, an NPC that you’re never sure will be in the background, super friendly, or a real asshole.