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Welcome to my fediverse feed. Just a few things that I am interested in.
Cory Doctorow · Aug 1, 2026
Content warning:Long thread/eof As I've written before, AI is the asbestos we're shoveling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend *generations* digging it out again,…
Cory Doctorow · Aug 1, 2026
Content warning:Long thread/44 As ever, the most important fact about a given technology isn't "what it does," but "who it does it *for*" and "who it does it *to*." All the pathologies Suresh…
Cory Doctorow · Aug 1, 2026
Content warning:Long thread/43 That is why some individual coders report such delight with their AI tools. They engage with those tools on their own terms, to improve their work in the ways that…
Cory Doctorow · Aug 1, 2026
Content warning:Long thread/42 Rather, an automation tool that requires the continuous and conscientious exercise of discernment will let individual practitioners improve their work in extremely…
Cory Doctorow · Aug 1, 2026
Content warning:Long thread/41 They demonstrate the adage that worker-driven automation improves quality, while capital-driven automation improves *throughput*: An automation technique that requires…
Cory Doctorow · Aug 1, 2026
Content warning:Long thread/40 The answer is that these AI users are "centaurs" - experienced workers who are assisted by automation on terms that they set for themselves: Thanks to their skill and…
Cory Doctorow · Aug 1, 2026
Content warning:Long thread/39 The fact that it grossly misleads you 8% of the time is a small price to pay for a life untroubled by uppity pismires who insist that your ideas be connected to base…
Cory Doctorow · Aug 1, 2026
Content warning:Long thread/38 With Cortex, a boss doesn't need to ask an underling to retrieve information from the company Snowflake system, an interaction that might come with unsolicited feedback…
Cory Doctorow · Aug 1, 2026
Content warning:Long thread/37 The fact that you're "in charge" is hard to reconcile with the fact that the people you're nominally in charge *of* tell you that all your ideas are impossible,…
Cory Doctorow · Aug 1, 2026
Content warning:Long thread/36 Rather than summarize that advice, I want to reflect a little on two questions that Suresh's essay raises but doesn't answer. The first is *why*? Why are people in…