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Something is happening to people who build software with AI. Consider a few blog posts from the last few weeks. Steve Yegge describes AI as an “energy vampire” that drains developers. Researchers at UC Berkeley published findings in the Harvard Business Review showing that AI…

In a well known 2015 blog post, Peter Reinhardt argues that Uber workers can be categorized into two groups. One group (the coders and engineers) runs the system and the other group (the drivers) does what the system tells them to do.

You are reading some words on the internet. Think about all the things you could do with these words...

Thinking, like learning, is a distributed human activity. Don't try to do it all by yourself.

What do you do when someone repeatedly passes off your work as their own? Being the victim of a serial plagiarist has got me worried about the opportunities for theft that are created by paywalled environments.

History, I think, begs us to second guess our assumptions about conquering COVID-19 and invites us to reimagine our lives and priorities in an evolving, adaptive world.

A timeless thought experiment, handed down through centuries and cultures, invites us to keep the human experience (and our personal ambitions) in sharp perspective.

I do not understand what it would be like to explain to my son why he is more likely to die at the hands of the police than other people.