Why Learn Coding? Why Learn Anything?!
On Saturday, I proudly watched my daughter present three beautiful piano compositions, including Beethoven’s Für Elise. It is such a wonderful feeling to see a…
Category: AI
Antidote
Did AI ruin the Internet? Or was it us? There’s so much AI-made slop everywhere, from LinkedIn to YouTube, that people have started reading actual…
The Skill AI Can’t Replace
Today, every AI company CEO suggests that software development will soon be reduced to prompting. What they forget to tell you is one crucial thing:…
Happily Vibe-Coding Ourselves Into Extinction
Selling snake oil Just saw a CNBC video showing how Deirdre Bosa vibe-coded a “fully functional” app from a single prompt. At first glance, it…
Anthropic’s $1.5B Settlement: What It Means for Authors (and AI)
2026 will be the year of dumber LLMs. Anthropic just agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit [1] brought by authors who…
DeepSeek, Where Are You?
If you prefer the video version, check it out here: https://youtu.be/Q3lCM2IoD9g?si=b_mqnHEx3aWpChlN Remember when DeepSeek was supposed to be China’s ChatGPT killer? For a moment, it…
Cure Your AI Fanaticism and Phobia in One Go
She ‘Excelled’ at Her Job A few decades ago, I worked at a school where it took a whole week just to figure out teachers’…
AI is a Multiplier
The outcome depends entirely on what you feed it:k * x, where x in [0, 1]k * x, where x > 1 #ai #thoughts
Can’t Wait!
Looking forward to the day AI-generated software projects become so widespread that only genuine software engineers can fix the problems. That’s when we’ll be in…
AI and Your Job: Threat or Opportunity?
A few years back, I worked at a school where it took a whole week just to figure out teachers’ pay. Our secretary would spend…