Dad Note: There’s so much fucking AI stuff but this is the world right now and while it might overwhelm all the data feeds I have it’s also still important, especially from a “what is the world going to be for my son” so it is what it is…
I read a lot of random stuff. Link Dumps are the things I think are worth remembering. Every Sunday (if I remember) I will send out my weeks worth of links. You can always check out my Link Dump Tag if you’re looking for even more to read and please forward these if someone might find them interesting.
Simon Willison: Feeling Sad About AI. Been there, got over it, now I’m excited.
Matthew Yglesias: A simple plan to save the world from rogue A.I.
Hannah Ritchie: US Energy Data: a new platform to explore American energy, state-by-state
Brink Lindsey: Liberalism hasn’t failed, but many liberals sure have. “…that this crazed leap into the abyss should occur, not in a country traumatized by war or economic ruin, but at a time of relative peace and prosperity, has led me to a deeply chastened reappraisal of many things I previously thought I knew about my country — and about Homo sapiens.” Bro. Same.
Nate Silver: We’re not ready for superpersistent AI Good take, I enjoy reading how smart people use AI and what Nate is worried about. I suspect our p(doom) is pretty similar and I am generally aligned with him on most things I’ve seen both of our opinions on from reading his books.
Why Everyone Is Saying AI Could Kill Us All. Good piece from someone who was a skeptic apparently, it has a bunch of overlap with my own piece Slowing Down
Thorsten Ball: What I believe about the future of software development. I think this is pretty good fortunetelling and I agree with maybe even all of it.
AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You. This is in direct opposition to Ball’s point directly above. Who shall win, I wonder?
Indonesia Takes Delivery of a “Free” Aircraft Carrier. Of course it’s going to cost millions to fix it…but still.
Noah Smith: No, you are not on Indigenous land. Spicy. Also, not wrong. It’s interesting to interrogate these types of things. I suspect this type of post is partly what you gotta do to be noticed.
How we made claude.ai faster. A neat study on using claude to make claude faster.
Cloudflare cloud tunnels are kinda neat!
We are all product engineers now. “The craft of writing code as a thing somebody pays you to do is, I think, mostly over, outside of niches that will get narrower every year.” …ouch. But I also think he’s probably right.
Sean Goedecke: You should all be asking way more questions. This makes me feel better about my own endless set of questions in a technical capacity.
Sean Goedecke: Advice to a beginning software engineer. A good piece for me to be thinking about as a principal but also as Squirt ages into this engineering world.