Ideas that challenge / comfort / inspire
Stephen Goforth
Speed means nothing without quality. Shipping buggy, unmaintainable code faster is a false victory – you’re just speeding towards a cliff. The best engineers will balance the two: using AI to move faster without breaking things (at least not breaking things any more than we already do!). It’s about finding that sweet spot where AI does the heavy lifting and humans ensure everything stands up properly. - Addy Osmani writing on Elevate
How AI coding agents could destroy open source software – ZDnet
The Way of Code: The Timeless Art of Vibe Coding – The Way of Code
At Amazon, Some Coders Say Their Jobs Have Begun to Resemble Warehouse Work - The New York Times
AI can't replace freelance coders yet, but that day is coming – The Register
Which AI coding assistant should I be using? – Stat Modeling
The AI Threat for Coding Jobs Is Becoming Clearer – Bloomberg
OpenAI introduces Codex, its first full-fledged AI agent for coding – Arstechnica
A Gemini-powered coding agent for designing advanced algorithms – Google Deep Mind
Vibe Coding is not an excuse for low-quality work – Addy Osmani writing on Elevate
Vibe Coding and You – the New Stack
AI can’t replace software engineers yet, but here is how to use it for prototyping – BD Tech Talks
Without Good Data, AI is Useless – Oracle
The Hidden Cost of AI Coding – Terrible Software
AI-enabled 'vibe coding' lets anyone write software – NPR
GitHub’s new AI coding agent can fix bugs for you – The Verge
Instead of wishing the ball would be hit to someone else, want the ball to be hit your way.
Having an open mind is nothing; the object of opening the mind, as the opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid. -GK Chesterton, born May 29, 1874
AI models hallucinate less than humans — just in “more surprising ways” – Tech Crunch
What AI thinks it knows about you – The Atlantic
Without Good Data, AI is Useless – Oracle
Professors Staffed a Fake Company Entirely With AI Agents, and You'll Never Guess What Happened – Futurism
A.I. Is Getting More Powerful, but Its Hallucinations Are Getting Worse – New York Times
AI tools mostly fumble basic financial tasks, study finds – Washington Post
Bloomberg Has a Rocky Start With A.I. News Summaries – New York Times
The Man Out to Prove How Dumb AI Still Is - The Atlantic
Can AI be your therapist? Experts disagree - Axios
Generative AI Limitations: What It Can’t Do (Yet) – Net Guru
WVU researchers test AI’s limits in emergency room diagnoses – West Virginia University
AI: Uses, Ethics and Limitations – KUAF
AI Can Assist Human Judges, But It Can’t Replace Them (Yet) – David Lat Blog
Can generative AI replace humans in qualitative research studies? - Techxplore
Why We’re Unlikely to Get Artificial General Intelligence Anytime Soon – New York Times
“We may be heading for a post-search web—one where content is not surfaced by keywords and ranking formulas, but synthesized and summarized by machines. In that world, publishers risk becoming invisible and their revenue models disrupted.” -Jon Passantino writing on Status
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible. –Voltaire
Instead of asking, "How do I get out of this thing I must do?" ask, "How do I become fully present in it?"
The inner critic must be shut down, and the inner Picasso turned up. -Heather Berlin
Medical errors are still harming patients. AI could help change that. – NBC News
AI linked to explosion of low-quality biomedical research papers – Nature
Machine Learning Model Helps Identify Patients at Risk of Postpartum Depression - Mass General Brigham
Your A.I. Radiologist Will Not Be With You Soon – New York Times
How AI is changing radiology – Semafor
Medical AI trained on whopping 57 million health records – Nature
Eldercare robot helps people sit and stand, and catches them if they fall – MIT
AI Helped Heal My Chronic Pain – Wall Street Journal
How AI is changing your doctors appointments – Fast Company
As AI in health care proliferates, so do legal questions concerning its use – Stat News
Researchers raise red flag about AI-generated fake images in biomedical research – Medicalxpress
Artificial neural networks date back to the 1950s – now they're ready to transform healthcare – Health Care IT News
Artificial intelligence predicts kidney cancer therapy response - UT Southwestern Medical Center
Refining ALS Diagnosis with AI – First Word Pharma
AI is coming to skin cancer detection - Washington Post
Every doctor is a writer: On the end of note-writing and meaning-making in medicine – Stat News
New AI algorithm to predict risk of cardiovascular events, heart-related death – AM 7 am
AI hasn’t killed radiology, but it is changing it – Washington Post
Transformer AI model detects wheezing in children with over 90% accuracy: study – Korea Biomedical Review
As they push ahead with AI, health leaders must set rules on use – American Medical Association
OpenAI leaps into health care with AI benchmark to evaluate models - Stat News
Medical schools move from worrying about AI to teaching it – American Association of Medical Colleges
Why AI May Be Listening In on Your Next Doctor’s Appointment - Wall Street Journal
None of this is to say AI can’t write good code – it sometimes does – but rather that context, scrutiny, and expertise are required to discern good from bad. In 2025, we are essentially using a very eager but inexperienced assistant. You shouldn’t blindly trust an AI’s code without oversight. The hype of “AI magic” needs to meet the reality of software engineering principles. - Addy Osmani writing on Elevate
The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. –Charles Dubois
Give all to love; obey thy heart. -Ralph Waldo Emerson (born May 25, 1803)
"Human coders often adjust a design as they implement, discovering misassumptions along the way. AI won’t catch those misassumptions unless the human in the loop notices and corrects it." -Addy Osmani writing on Elevate
He not busy being born is busy dying. -Bob Dylan, born May 24, 1941
No one ever attains success by simply doing what is required of him. —Charles Kendall Adams
Why AI Interviews Could Be Bad News For Honest Designers – Andy Budd
The future of AI is in western Pennsylvania - Washington Post
I’m a LinkedIn Executive. I See the Bottom Rung of the Career Ladder Breaking. – New York Time
AI and the future of work – Cambridge
An AI tool for better career decisions – David Bauer
How AI Is Helping Job Seekers Pivot to New Careers - Wall Street Journal
AI poses a bigger threat to women's work, than men's, says report – Reuters
If you haven’t been worrying about AI, it’s time to start preparing - Washington Post
Something Alarming is Happening to the Job Market: A new sign that AI is competing with college grads – The Atlantic
The AI Threat for Coding Jobs Is Becoming Clearer – Bloomberg
The Hottest AI Job of 2023 Is Already Obsolete - Wall Street Journal
AI isn’t ready to do your job – Business Insider
Microsoft says AI coworkers are coming fast – Yahoo Tech
The Dangers Of AI-Generated Job Candidates – Forbes
AI “interns” are too big to ignore – Fast Company
Why AI Might Not Take All Our Jobs—If We Act Quickly – Wall Street Journal
Americans worry AI is coming for these jobs – Washington Post
Say Hello to Your New Colleague, the AI Agent – Wall Street Journal
Google AI Search Leaves Website Makers Feeling Betrayed – Bloomberg
"AI-first" is the new Return To Office – Anil Dash
Innovate Why AI Won’t Replace Venture Capitalists Any Time Soon – Inc
13 jobs that don't require a college degree − and won't be replaced by AI – USA Today
Unchecked AI-generated code can massively amplify technical debt, the hidden problems that make software brittle and costly to maintain. Many early vibe-coded projects look good on the surface (“it works, ship it!”) but hide a minefield of issues: no error handling, poor performance, questionable security practices, and logically brittle code. - Addy Osmani writing on Elevate
"Students are complaining on sites like Rate My Professors about their instructors’ overreliance on A.I. and scrutinizing course materials for words ChatGPT tends to overuse, like 'crucial' and 'delve.' In addition to calling out hypocrisy, they make a financial argument: They are paying, often quite a lot, to be taught by humans, not an algorithm that they, too, could consult for free." -New York Times
Deep practice feels a bit like exploring a dark and unfamiliar room. You start slowly, you bump into furniture, stop, think, and start again. Slowly, and a little painfully, you explore the space over and over, attending to errors, extending your reach into the room a bit further each time, building a mental map until you can move through it quickly intuitively. the instinct to slow down and break skills into their components is universal.
We heard it a billion times while we were growing up, from parents and coaches who echoed the old refrain “Just take it one step at a time.” But what I didn't understand until I visited the talent hotbeds was just how effective that simple, intuitive strategy could be.
In the talent hotbeds I visited, the chunking takes place in three dimensions. First, the participants look at the task as a whole—as one big chunk, the megacircuit. Second, they divide it into its smallest possible chucks. Third, they play with time, slowing the action down, then speeding it up, to learn its inner architecture.
People in the hotbeds deep-practice the same way a good movie director approaches a scene—one instant panning back to show the landscape, The next zooming in to examine a bug crawling on a leaf in slo-mo.
Daniel Coyle, The Talent Code
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