LinguaCelta: The Community is the Achievement; the Achievement is the Community
An article on how community is one of the important properties of where tech has taken us, and the threat that AI poses to this.
The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic's con
An article in which the author talks about the con played by psychics, and how large language models pretty much do exactly the same thing.
The Eternal Sloptember
This post more or less reads like how I feel. The author seems to have had more problems with the generated code than I have, possibly, but I know where they're coming from and feel the same sense of concern.
Is AI Profitable Yet?
I mean, for Nvidia, I guess?
LM Studio - Local AI on your computer
Tool for installing and managing local models. Might be worth a look.
tokenspeed — feel LLM tokens-per-second
Emulator to get a feel what N tokens/sec really feels like.
‘The cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees’: Nvidia exec says right now AI is more expensive than paying human workers | Fortune
Keep this up and squishy humans might end up being more cost effective.
Does Gas Town 'steal' usage from users' LLM credits & paid services to improve itself? · Issue #3649 · gastownhall/gastown
AI eating itself... kindof hilarious.
Lzon.ca. A personal blog, by a programmer and IT expert.
Interesting wander through one person's experience of the early days of modern AI.
FAQ: Privacy Statement update on Copilot data use for model training (Free/Pro/Pro+) · community · Discussion #188488
An interesting claim from a member of staff that doesn't quite fit what's said elsewhere.
FAQ: Privacy Statement update on Copilot data use for model training (Free/Pro/Pro+) · community · Discussion #188488
GitHub's FAQ on how they're going to start learning off people's interactions with Copilot.
Human brain cells on a chip learned to play Doom in a week
I mean, I think we knew human brain cells could play DooM, right?
Evaluating AGENTS.md: Are Repository-Level Context Files Helpful...
A paper that asks the question: does AGENTS.md make any difference?
How Generative and Agentic AI Shift Concern from Technical Debt to Cognitive Debt
Having spent a few days finally taking an "agentic" approach to building a project, one thing I noticed was I didn't personally enjoy the process. I enjoyed the outcome, I enjoyed the result, but the actual process was a boring slog. I also felt that I was losing something too.
This covers this concern.
AI Product Rankings
Another way to give SEO folk anxiety, I guess.
Flow
I've yet to try this out, but I'm curious. Google's AI-based "filmmaking" tool.
Prompt injection is not SQL injection (it may be worse)
Nice little simple description of why "prompt injection" is so much worse than "SQL injection" so it's generally not a good idea to think of them as the same class of problem.
.Net devs argue with Copilot in a PR...
Folk on the .Net team having an argument with Copilot is the most funny thing to me at the moment.
AI will write your next compiler!
The blog post that explains the background of the horrific Ocaml AI-written PR. Honestly... this feels like some post hoc rationalisation cope rather than a coming clean of an honest attempt to test something out.
I'm not convinced at all.
Stopslopware
Pretty funny, but also on the nose, website relating to the issue of slopware. We're seeing more and more of it at the end of 2025.
DWARF support for macOS and Linux by joelreymont · Pull Request #14369 · ocaml/ocaml
This has to be a classic example of what I think of as a toxic AI-spawned PR.
AI World Clocks
Pretty funny site that gives an indication at how good various LLMs are at understanding a request to write some code.
Why “Everyone Dies” Gets AGI All Wrong
"Everyone Dies" is on my to-read list. From what I've seen it sounds pretty alarmist, but also that feels like that's the point. This article seems pretty negative on it (not that I've read the article at the time of saving this) so I'm keeping a link to this to read at some point in the future, once I've read the book.
Why Large Language Models Won’t Replace Engineers Anytime Soon
In short: an attempt at a mathematical proof as to why humans won't be replaced by LLMs any time soon.
Not sure I have the background to really follow all of this, and I'm not sure this is as reassuring as some might want it to be; but it's an interesting read. Finally I sense the "replacement" won't happen or fail to happen because of facts of the world, but because business will decide it's for the best and will cause things to collapse.
AI has a cargo cult problem
I'm not sure I really quite agree with the article, especailly the "cargo cult" side of things, I can see where it's coming from and I think I'd agree in some ways.
Why I'm declining your AI generated MR - Stuart Spence Blog
I've been thinking recently about AI/LLM-created PRs on GitHub. I've only received a couple, and they've not been great. This has got me wondering if I should entertain them at all from both a software development point of view, and also an ethical point of view.
This blog post is an interesting read for someone else's take on things.
Repomix
While the tool is aimed at repos, more generally a tool for taking a ton of different files and turning them into a single source that can be thrown at some sort of learning system so you can ask questions of it.
AlphaGenome: AI for better understanding the genome
Saved because it's of past interest to past me in a remote way.
AI Hallucination Cases Database
AI will enslave us all eventually...
AI Needs Your Help
I, for one, welcome our new AI overlords.