Ignore the Grifters - AI Isn’t Going to Kill the Software Industry — Dustin Ewers - “we’ll eventually allocate our scarce AI resources towards the things they are best at, which leaves plenty of things for humans to do."
A free, powerful Chinese AI model just dropped — but don’t ask it about Tiananmen Square - Great, now the AIs are getting political.
Return to PaaS: Building the Platform of Our Dreams - The New Stack - It’s a tough slog.
Practical agentic AI without all the mysticism
Catch-up: what we learn from Sonos and OpenTofu, how I use AI at work, Bluesky is getting pretty good.
Found by fuzzyghost.Agentic AII’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about the Tanzu point of view on AI and the stack we have (Spring AI and the VMware Tanzu AI Solutions). There’s a lot mysticism around agentic AI, but when you reduce it down to an API, you can simplify it.
Share of teens using ChatGPT for schoolwork doubled from 2023 to 2024 - It’s great for all your education needs.
How pointy shoes created a moral panic in medieval London - It’s good to remember that hundreds of years later, and prohibition against fashion makes the probities look like idiots with too much time on their hands. // Also, Dutch businessmen don’t seem to have stopped wearing them.
Best Prompt for Academic Papers Summary/Analysis - “Explain this paper to me using the Feynman technique, considering yourself as the author”
Daily Links, Jan 21st 2025 | Fintan Ryan’s Semi Regular Updates - New daily links blog from Fintan, subscribe to the RSS.
2025-01-21 - “I do not have a solution for any of this stuff, and I despair as much as the next sane human being, but one thing has become clearer and clearer since 2016; social media, like Monty Python’s Camelot, is a silly place."