The easy way to learn nothing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYk1IpGEBIk
Canadian teens who use AI for schoolwork every week are about two years behind the ones who never use it, yet other studies show students with an AI tutor learning twice as much. So which is it? I dig into the research on AI and learning, and why the struggle is the part you can't skip.
AI Detector: Free AI Checker for ChatGPT, Claude & Gemini | Pangram
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Thoughts on generative A.I.
https://kghose.github.io/generative-ai/
Unlawful by design: Exposing the human rights costs of generative AI | Lobsters
https://lobste.rs/s/2balua/unlawful_by_design_exposing_human_rights
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The Moat or the Commons — Warman Notes
https://www.warman.life/blog/2026-04-27-the-moat-or-the-commons/
American capital financed AI on the assumption it would be the next great monopoly. Open-weight models are commoditizing the capability that monopoly was supposed to protect. The collision between the two now defines the direction of the U.S. AI industry — and the country.
To my students
http://ozark.hendrix.edu/~yorgey/forest/00FD/index.xml
Agentic development basics
https://steveklabnik.com/writing/agentic-development-basics/
Blog post: Agentic development basics by Steve Klabnik
Is Your Team Still Hand-Chiseling Code? | Blog
https://www.geocod.io/code-and-coordinates/2026-01-21-hand-chiseling-code/
If you’re struggling to get your engineers to adopt AI, keep reading.
Don't fall into the anti-AI hype - <antirez>
https://antirez.com/news/158
Thanks AI! · GitHub
https://gist.github.com/richhickey/ea94e3741ff0a4e3af55b9fe6287887f
Thanks AI! GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46415945
> So it makes me wonder, is embodiment (advanced robotics) 1000x harder than LLM... | Hacker News
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45122328
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Agentultra - Why I Won't Use AI
https://agentultra.com/blog/why-i-wont-use-ai/index.html
OpenAI Is A Systemic Risk To The Tech Industry
https://www.wheresyoured.at/openai-is-a-systemic-risk-to-the-tech-industry-2/
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Forecaster reacts: METR's bombshell paper about AI acceleration
https://peterwildeford.substack.com/p/forecaster-reacts-metrs-bombshell
New data supports an exponential AI curve, but lots of uncertainty remains
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43758936
Important AGI quote / definition from the article:
"When I use “AGI” in this article, I mean to refer to an AI system that can automate 99%+ of all economically valuable 2024-era remote tasks at a cost less than it costs to employ an equivalently skilled human to do that task."
Cursor IDE support hallucinates lockout policy, causes user cancellations | Hacker News
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43683012
TLDR - be vary cautious about AI auto-generated support responses. Mark them clearly as auto-generated.
Energy demands from AI datacentres to quadruple by 2030, says report | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/apr/10/energy-demands-from-ai-datacentres-to-quadruple-by-2030-says-report
The IEA forecast indicates a sharp rise in the requirements of AI, but said threat to the climate was ‘overstated’
Revealed: Big tech’s new datacentres will take water from the world’s driest areas | Water | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/09/big-tech-datacentres-water
Amazon, Google and Microsoft are building datacentres in water-scarce parts of five continents
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I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again — Ludicity
https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/
Claude's Character
https://simonwillison.net/2024/Jun/8/claudes-character/
There's so much interesting stuff in this article from Anthropic on how they defined the personality for their Claude 3 model. In addition to the technical details there are some …
Ask HN: What is your ChatGPT customization prompt? | Hacker News
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40474716