“AI isn’t magic; it’s a pyramid scheme of human labor,” said Adio Dinika, a researcher at the Distributed AI Research Institute based in Bremen, Germany.

the Guardian

How thousands of ‘overworked, underpaid’ humans train Google’s AI to seem smart

Contracted AI raters describe grueling deadlines, poor pay and opacity around work to make chatbots intelligent

“Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.” Abraham Lincoln

Internet Explorer 3, released one day and 29 years ago, was the first browser to (however partially and imperfectly) support the then-new language of CSS. 

 Who else remembers the CSS showcase Microsoft published that year? For me, it changed everything.

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I’ve heard of this new thing called “planning.” I wonder if it will catch on in the corporate world. We live in an age of miracles.

“Today, we optimise for ‘DX’ – developer experience. Not user experience. Not performance. Not outcomes. 🧵 1/3

Study: When experienced open-source developers used current AI tools, work took 19% longer to complete. In spite of which, the developers *thought* they were working *faster.* It’s just one study, and they don’t claim anything beyond what they observed. Their results are not predictive. Still.... (There must be a name for the psychological trick we play on ourselves to believe we’re being more productive even when we’re considerably less so.) Hat tip: Dave Martin

Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity

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“What the Apple paper shows, most fundamentally, regardless of how you define AGI, is that LLMs are no substitute for good well-specified conventional algorithms.”

A knockout blow for LLMs?

LLM “reasoning” is so cooked they turned my name into a verb

If you do it without probable cause, a warrant, and due process, it isn’t an arrest, it’s a kidnapping.