Category: AI Generated
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Normie AI Usage: Figures & Findings
Programmers are still the dominant users of UI and, thus, drive AI use cases. The much larger market are “normies,” people outside of the IT department who are doing “knowledge work” and other tasks in organizations. I asked the AI to pull together a list of what those activities are and the momentum around them.…
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What people use sovereign cloud for, and why
IDC survey data on sovereign cloud: more than half of organizations already use it, 72% say their interest has risen in the past six months, and 42% are now running AI workloads on sovereign infrastructure. Here’s what they’re using it for, what’s driving adoption, and where current offerings still fall short.
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From ChatGPT based on “Pyramid of Capitalist System,” Nedeljkovich, Brashich, & Kuharich, Industrial Workers of the World, 1911. Of course, for America at least, what you’d like to visualize is that every layer actually plays a part on “shareholder,” just a small part. Maybe there’s some stock certificates and cash that trickle down in pneumatic…
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🤖 “descended into madness” – Backrooms
Original: A Backstory from My Backrooms by Paige K. Bradley. Summarized by AI on June 3, 2026. {I love backrooms. One of the first things I did with AI image generator was make endless empty malls and backrooms. So good. -Coté} A stray 2019 4chan post about a bland, fluorescent-lit interior sparked the viral myth…
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🤖 AI Collapses Build Costs but Expands Alignment Burdens for Senior Engineers
Original: Is this sustainable? by Jamie Hurst. Summarized by AI on June 3, 2026. AI has collapsed the distance between idea and implementation. Senior engineers can now move from concept to working proof-of-concept in days, bypassing the old cycle of proposals, approvals, and sequential team work. This shift has replaced slide decks with demos, rewarding…
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🤖 How People Are Really Using AI in 2026: Thinkslop, Therapy, and Shadow Work
Original: How People Are Really Using AI in 2026 by Harvard Business Review. Summarized by AI on June 2, 2026. Generative AI has become deeply embedded in daily life, with 900 million regular ChatGPT users and Google Gemini close behind. A longitudinal study of 12,637 fresh use cases shows adoption expanding across personal, emotional, and…
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🤖 AI Productivity Gains Stall at Firm Level: The Three Stages of ROI
Original: Why AI isn’t showing up on your bottom line by Azeem Azhar. Summarized by AI on June 1, 2026. AI tools have made individual workers faster and more productive, with engineers producing more code and teams feeling tangible time savings. Yet firms see little proportional ROI, echoing Robert Solow’s paradox of computers appearing everywhere…
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Macro-economic headwinds vs “The Terrace-in-April”
I feel like there’s an unspoken set of assumptions and a slightly hidden “operating system” for how societies run. This comes out a lot when I read dense macro-economic analysis like this one. Let’s see what Opus 4.7’s angle is on my question: If I look at this piece, it seems to be saying Europe…
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🤖 Bernie Sanders Presses Claude on AI, Privacy, and a Data-Center Moratorium
Summarized by AI. 2026-04-12 09:40 Bernie vs. Claude Senator Bernie Sanders questions Claude directly about how AI intersects with privacy, profit, and democratic erosion, framing data collection as the hidden engine behind most consumer-facing AI. Claude concedes that companies harvest browsing history, location, purchases, search activity, even pause time on a page, then feed it…
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🤖 Tyler Cowen and Jonathan Zittrain on Agents, Consciousness, and Why America Can’t Pause
Summarized by AI on 2026-04-14. A Berkman Klein Center public conversation between Tyler Cowen (George Mason, Mercatus Center) and Jonathan Zittrain (Harvard), framed around hypothetical Anthropic and OpenAI releases Mythos and SPUD, each powerful enough to be withheld on safety grounds. Cowen opens by saying he believes the safety claims, adding that the real question…
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HA HA! BUSINESS
I use the HA HA! BUSINESS! meme a few times each decade. The original is pretty small and pixel’y, so I asked the robot to upscale it and it did a damn fine job:
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I think this is could be my forever meme guy. From Nano Banana…after a lot of banana peeling by human.
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Making YouTube thumbnails with AI – Nano Banana and OpenAI
Me: “Make this thumbnail better.” [The one above, which I made.] OpenAI: Me: “Wow! Can you make it so that the catsup bottle is in good shape? That is my work’s brand, so I want it to be good.” Gemini: Me: How about the text is “Adding AI to Internal Developer Platforms” Also, make their…
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How shit actually works versus how you wish it worked
A discussion of messy dichotomies from the robot: Thus spoke 🤖 : Exploratory vs Normative — Quick Reference A compact reference for thinking about how a framework is operating: discovering reality vs prescribing order. Exploratory vs Normative (academic, but precise) Exploratory: investigates what exists in the real world; derives insight from practice Normative: asserts what…
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“technically fine, offends no one, and also does fuck-all to advance the conversation”
Me: Give me a definition of and commentary on “anodyne.” It seems like smarty-pants people use it as a dog whistle (a shibboleth!) for saying “I’m a smarty pants.” ChatGPT 5.1: **Definition** _Anodyne_ (adj. or noun): 1. Something that relieves pain or soothes; 2. By extension, a remark, policy, or idea that is inoffensive, bland,…
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Claude Skills are top on my list of “important things no one is talking about” for this year. They’re both an AIPaaS and showing a new programming model and mindset. The educational angle (“View Source”) is a good take. 🔗 What MCP and Claude Skills Teach Us About Open Source for AI The original is…
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🤖 Open Source Maintainers Are Burning Out and Walking Away
Summarized by AI. Open source software is sustained by overworked, often unpaid volunteers, many of whom face crushing workloads and relentless community pressure. A recent study by Miranda Heath, supported by Sentry’s Open Source Pledge, reveals that burnout among maintainers is not an isolated issue but a systemic failure threatening the stability of the global…
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🤖 Writing for Baby Shoggoths: How AI Became Literature’s Last Reader
{Some crazy-town stuff in here, but interesting and probably, mostly, correct. -Coté} Human writers may soon craft words primarily for AI rather than other humans, as large language models increasingly consume, interpret, and influence the world’s text. The essay explores the strange idea that “writing for AI” could grant influence over future superintelligence—or even a…
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🤖 Optimism Linked to 15% Longer Life and Higher Odds of Reaching 85+
People who maintain a more optimistic outlook tend to live longer and are more likely to reach “exceptional longevity,” defined as surviving to 85 or beyond. Drawing on data from over 69,000 women and 1,400 men, researchers found optimism’s benefits persisted even when accounting for health conditions, depression, and lifestyle habits. Summarized by AI. Source…
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🤖 AI Security Loops: When Coding Assistants Become Their Own Risk
Developers are embracing AI coding tools to accelerate software creation, but the resulting security landscape is increasingly complex. While AI can detect threats and debug code, relying on it exclusively creates a recursive loop where the same AI that writes code may also incorrectly validate or approve it. Summarized by AI. Source summarized: Shifting Security…
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