Everybody's Lost Their Minds
A pretty great rant about all things AI.
Felony Bench
Site that tracks questionable behaviour, or at least claims of questionable behaviour, by LLMs/agents.
Do not talk to me about AI
A PDF with the design of cards you can give out, asking people to not talk to you about AI.
On AI Coding and Its Discontents - Cal Newport
I'm still trying to decide if this is a totally made up story or not. The whole thing about "there was a bug in production so I was told I might get fired" sound so damn toxic... On the other hand though, even if it's 100% fake, I get the concern that is likely being spun here.
Retraction: The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was, in Fact, a Correct Rejection
I didn't know this was a site, and now I'm glad I know this is a site. What got me here was the drama around this particular app. It's got everything: claims of unfair treatment, claims of unfair portrayal of an application, claims of copying by AI, the works. Well worth a read.
AI is a bubble, just like dot-com
I do believe that AI is a bubble. I guess the question is: is it a crypto/NFT kind of bubble, or a dot-com kind of bubble?
LLMs reward expertise
Too many people who are pushing for LLMs and agents in a business environment seem to fail to understand that you can't replace expertise with them.
I feel many organisations will find this out too late.
Don't be a meat proxy
I'm going to remember the phrase "meat proxy". In fact, I'm tempted to keep ask the question "Are you being a meat proxy?" the next time someone sends me something, a question or a reply, that is so obviously just a copy/paste from their chatbot.
AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making — Ludicity
I feel this so much. I wish the people who need to read this would read this.
Human Emacs
I feel like this project is jumping the gun quite a bit, but I also appreciate that it exists. I did also see someone say the other day that it's worth running with anyway to "get away from RMS". Which is far I guess.
Please delete your repository · Issue #639 · Vandivier/ladderly-3
I don't care if it's totally made up, it made me chuckle.
The AI Hype Reckoning Is Upon Us
Good article about the gulf that does seem to exist between the hype around AI in business, and the actual benefits.
Very Average Prototypes
Interesting article about some of the downsides of working with AI to create code. Says a few things I've also been saying about my journey with BlogMore.
The AI Compass
I got "The Skeptic"
Honesty gets Emacs patch rejected
The FSF, in effect, do what the FSF is there to do: defend the copyright of GNU Emacs. Meanwhile someone attempts to contribute a patch written by a large language model, and seemingly gets offended that it's rejected. I think the worst part about it is they seem to think that being honest about using an LLM should let their contribution in.
The AI Resist List
Does what it says in the title, pretty much.
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 Jqwik Anti-AI Affair
The Jqwik author's perspective on their Markdown-based "malware".
AI Agents Enable Adaptive Computer Worms
Paper about agents enabling worms.
AI enthusiasts are in a race against time, AI skeptics are in a race against entropy
Interesting take on the two "sides" of the debate about AI.
Potentially Useful | Hating AI in 2026
Kind of hard to argue with the content of this.
Continue? Y/N
I sense this is less of a game and more of a caution/simulator.
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.
manyfold/AGENTS.md at main · manyfold3d/manyfold
Pretty fun anti-AI AGENTS.md file.
I wonder if it works?
The AI water issue is fake
Summary: The water usage of AI data centres is not a significant environmental issue. While data centres do use water, primarily for cooling, their water consumption is minimal compared to other industries and daily activities. The concern is often based on misconceptions and misleading statistics, rather than a comprehensive understanding of the data and the broader context of water usage.
I see this brought up a lot, and while I understand the concern, I'm always a litle skeptical that it's what people trot out. Keeping this so I can refer back to it, and for further investigation.
Don't Outsource Your Understanding
The article highlights the dangers of “cognitive surrender,” where individuals rely heavily on AI-generated content without proper verification. This phenomenon is evident in various fields, including law, software development, and academia, leading to errors, misinformation, and a lack of understanding. The author emphasises the importance of staying engaged in the cognitive loop, actively verifying AI outputs, and understanding the underlying processes to ensure the quality and reliability of work.