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A talk warns against the 'black pill' nihilism and draws parallels to issues in the software industry, where management-engineering conflicts and coercive software undermine user autonomy, urging that software should serve people.
An opinion piece arguing that custom split-screen UIs and walled garden approaches are not effective strategies for winning the AI agent race.
A commentary questioning whether the widespread adoption of AI in business is exaggerated, citing interviews with regular employees who report only minimal use of tools like ChatGPT.
Ronald Mannak critiques Snap's new Specs AR glasses, calling them impressive as a tech demo but clunky as a consumer product, and suggests offloading compute to other devices.
The article exposes how millions of low-paid workers in developing countries perform essential data labeling and content moderation for AI models under exploitative conditions, while tech companies obscure this human labor to maintain an illusion of full automation.
An opinion piece criticizing Apple's AI improvements for Siri, contrasting impressive WWDC demos with the reality of ongoing reliability issues.
Ed Zitron argues that AI lacks measurable ROI, highlighting cases of massive overspending and the inherent unpredictability of LLM costs. The article critiques the industry's inability to quantify returns, urging skepticism.
An opinion piece critiquing the AI-driven productivity push, arguing that solving busywork misses underlying systemic issues, using Google's Gemini Spark agent as a case study.
An opinion piece critiquing AI executives who claim to care about 'Humanity' in the abstract while neglecting real people, using the Dr. Manhattan archetype as a metaphor for this disconnect.
This article critiques the persistent 'Singularity' narrative in AI discourse, arguing that current Large Language Models should be analyzed as social technologies rather than mythical paths to superintelligence.
Essay argues that AI systems inherently embody fascist tendencies through centralized control, surveillance, and violence-enabling architectures, not just through their usage by authoritarian actors.
A technical blog post critiques query-based compilers, arguing that their effectiveness is limited by the dependency structure of the source language, particularly the avalanche effect where changes can propagate widely, making incremental updates often as expensive as a full rebuild.