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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has written an essay urging the AI industry to slow down and proposed a three-part plan, with Anthropic committing to provide third-party evaluators with access.
Bill Gates warns about AI's potential for widespread job displacement and societal disruption, advocating for new policies such as taxing AI systems and establishing a global body to oversee AI governance.
Nathan Sanders and Bruce Schneier's essay in Tech Policy Press argues that AI fears often confuse technological flaws with capitalist structures, using medical AI to show how market incentives shape outcomes and contrasting different economic models.
A piece by Craig Simpson titled '7am', shared by Paul Graham, likely an essay or article on personal or professional topics relevant to the tech industry.
The essay applies the concept of activation energy from chemistry to explain initial barriers in contexts like physics, neuroscience, and personal relationships, emphasizing the importance of low energy for sustaining actions.
An essay revisiting Fred Brooks' 1986 'No Silver Bullet' argument, explaining why AI coding tools still cannot deliver order-of-magnitude productivity gains because they only address accidental complexity, not the essential conceptual work of software engineering.
An influential essay arguing that companies should favor mature, 'boring' technology for most problems, saving limited 'innovation tokens' for areas of true differentiation. It emphasizes the importance of known failure modes and global optimization over novelty.
Richard Stallman recounts a playful hack using six chopsticks to illustrate the true meaning of hacking as playful cleverness and exploration, and traces the origins of hacker culture at MIT.
ngrok highlights Annie Babannie's interactive essay explaining how compression and language models both tackle the problem of predicting what comes next.
A personal essay defending Guitar Hero against a father's analogy that compares generative AI to the game, arguing the rhythm game requires real skill and unlike AI does not harm cognition or steal art.
A classic essay by physicist Eugene Wigner discussing the remarkable and unexpected effectiveness of mathematics in describing natural phenomena.
The author uses a steak-cooking analogy to argue that AI coding tools can follow recipes but cannot truly understand what developers want, so developers still need to master the underlying craft instead of relying on AI or agencies.
An essay arguing that as AI collapses the cost of software production, taste—the wordless verdict of quality—becomes the decisive skill for developers.
A long-form essay exploring the history and character of the German Mittelstand, using the story of Michael Thonet and his mass-produced Chair Nr. 14 as a lens into craftsmanship and industrial innovation.
A blog post reflecting on why hobby programming communities like OSDev and demoscene are hostile to LLM usage, arguing that the craft and learning process itself is the point.
Joel Spolsky argues that UI programming is easy and fun, and that good UI design follows rational rules rather than artistic mystique, illustrating with a personal anecdote about controlling his environment at a bakery job.
An essay arguing that compression, not longer context windows, is the load-bearing primitive for long-term AI memory and relational continuity, drawing an analogy to compute and storage in computing.
A speculative essay by Klara Kofen that uses fictional vignettes from 2029 to 2178 to explore the evolving concept of trade secrets, touching on biotechnology, blockchain-based currency, and espionage. Illustrated with AI-generated diagrams made using Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.5.
A blog post reflecting on the nature of software quality, arguing that quality is about gracefully performing development and leaving the codebase better than found, and exploring how to foster or destroy quality in software products.
A personal essay recounting the author's experience starting at Google in 2007, describing the company's unique culture, the charismatic founders, and the intense corporate indoctrination.