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This is Nico from TightOps, also a partner with the Center for AI Leadership.
Posts
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Why Your Docs Should Live in a Repo Now
Should your internal documentation live in Google Docs or a git repository?
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The Work Your AI Can't See
There’s an overlooked benefit to working with agents: in order to make working with agents work, you’re going to make work work.
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Quoting Nate
What gives me hope is that the slop isn’t inevitable, and we humans have a pretty reliable history of finding great works (like Shakespeare) out of the sea of slop we ourselves have written. Good stuff rises to the top.
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Quoting Jack Clark
By the summer I expect that many people who work with frontier AI systems will feel as though they live in a parallel world to people who don’t. And I expect this will be more than just a feeling
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Quoting Tim Dettmers
Refreshing read.
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The Majority AI View
Not only too big to fail, but too deep into impossible to keep promises.
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Quoting The Decoder
The Wikimedia Foundation says page views have dropped by about eight percent compared to last year. The foundation points to generative AI tools and social networks that display Wikipedia content without sending users to the site. Bots that increasingly resemble real users are also putting more strain on Wikipedia’s infrastructure.
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Daring Fireball: Markdown
It’s freaking amazing to me that one guy, John Gruber, came up with Markdown. It has been widely adopted and personally I think if I were to get something like that on my record, I’d be done.
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Oldletters
One of the problems with newsletters is that they are covering the latest product/software releases, developments, trends, what have you.
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Personal Software
While this has been going on since the early days of ChatGPT, when people realized these language models are good at writing code, I think 2025 marks the rise of coding agents.
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Building with AI Is Outsourcing
If you’re building things with AI (LLMs and inference), you have to realize that this is simply a new, or more modern, form of outsourcing.
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Quoting Anthropic Engineering
Trying to leverage AI to create content ends up in creating a better or worse version of AI slop.
That’s the rule. Everything else is a rare exception.
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The Case Against Generative AI
Oh, this one is great!
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agents vs clouds
This is just great writing, even though there is no capital letter to be found.
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Childhood's Too Short to Be Spent on a Smartphone
Makes sense.
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Quoting Harvard Business Review
Update your local dictionary. We have a new word: AI workslop.
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Scamlexity: When Agentic AI Browsers Get Scammed
via Guard.io
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Nirvana - Live at the Paramount
I grew up on Nirvana and Rage Against The Machine. Naturally, I was motivated to learn to play the guitar, and also to wear some of grandparent’s clothes (thrifting, sort of).
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Harry Frankfurt's On Bullshit
Bullshit appears to be s still accelerating phenomenon.
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Claude Memory: A Different Philosophy
This is fascinating. Anthropic’s approach is so much better in my opinion.
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Claude Code Exploration
I have been on the Claude Code train for the past few weeks, and it is still intensifying.
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ChatGPT Is Blowing Up Marriages as Spouses Use AI to Attack Their Partners
Who would have thunk?
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Back to Basics: Documentation
LLM models have gotten better — and I’m intentional about saying “better,” not “more intelligent.” We need different and more specific terminology to describe what LLMs excel at. For one, we must move away from anthropomorphizing them, because this reinforces misunderstandings and misconceptions that inevitably lead to frustration and disappointment.
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Agent Factory
[🔗 GitHub](https://github.com/coleam00/context-engineering-intro/tree/main/use-cases/agent-factory-with-subagents) Turtles all the way down. -
Agent Factory
Turtles all the way down.
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The Era of Step-on-a-Rake Capitalism
[🔗 The Atlantic](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/09/trump-economic-pain-strategy/684166/?utm_campaign=work-in-progress&utm_content=20250917&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&lctg=655a883da8165b2d8808bd5e&utm_term=Work%20in%20Progress) -
The Era of Step-on-a-Rake Capitalism
What is happening these days in the U.S. is, and has been, difficult to believe.
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Use Claude as your video editor
🔗 [Thariq on X](https://x.com/trq212/status/1947706205172068624?s=12&t=2X6gw9cgtgj5n5nXRdqnDw) -
Use Claude as your video editor
I wished I had a use case for this.
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🔗 Quoting From LLMs Aren’t World Models
“Thinking” by guessing what words to say next based on words we’ve previously heard might actually help find a good idea — and it’s also how know-nothings get through work meetings, and how people come to think they know stuff they really don’t, and how they internalize the stupidest notions. I am starting to think that in today’s environment, high cognitive skills are an actual risk factor for stupidity, and that learning words without learning a model of what they refer to is one big part of the problem.
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Resolving Conflicting Ideas
When we are hearing or reading a consistent argument which fits our existing ideas, whether it simply confirms or even expands them, this is what usually gets us to push that 👍 button.
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Computering
com·put·er·ing
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There Are Two Types of People in the Word
Those who use a clipboard manager, and those who don’t.
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Das mit dem Lesen
Ein etwas längerer Kommentar, den ich im Zusammenhang eines Interviews von Markus Albers auf LinkedIn geschrieben habe.
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Too Much Koolaid
I have recommended David Shapiro to a bunch of people. I have learned a lot from his content, and I have used some of his materials for the Towards Chronic Health workshop and on my posts here and on Your Personal Singularity.
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Where Have You Been, My Friend?
Busy, very busy. Lots of work. All of a sudden demand exceeded supply!
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Poisoning AI Music Files
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Brain Rotting Technology
🔗 Brain Rotting Technology by Tommy Blanchard of Cognitive Wonderland
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Sleep by Max Richter
Fascinating and beautiful. Max Richter composed a full eight and a half hour album to listen to while you sleep.
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ChatGPT is Bullshit
I read Frankfurter’s essay more than once (credit to John Gruber for the recommendation).
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Not so Deep Research
🔗 OpenAI rolls out a ‘lightweight’ version of its ChatGPT deep research tool
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Prescience
Into this void comes the Technopoly story, with its emphasis on progress without limits, rights without responsibilities, and technology without cost. The Technopoly story is without a moral center. It puts in its place efficiency, interest, and economic advance. It promises heaven on earth through the conveniences of technological progress.
– From Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology by Neil Postman
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Something Great, Something Important
We live in this world like a child who enters a room where a clever person is speaking. The child did not hear the beginning of the speech, and he leaves before the end; and there are certain things which he hears but does not understand. In the same way, the great speech of God started many, many centuries before we started learning, and it will continue for many centuries after we turn to dust. We hear only part of it, and we do not understand the biggest part of what we hear, but nevertheless, a bit vaguely, we understand something great, something important.
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Getting a PhD in Whatever Ails You
🔗 Deep Dive Tutorial - How to use ChatGPT o4 for deep Medical Research
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Writing and Magic
🔗 How YOU can change the world through WRITING with Alan Moore
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Andy Anderson: a Short Skate Film by Brett Novak
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The False Intention Economy
🔗 The False Intention Economy: How AI Systems Are Replacing Human Will with Modeled Behavior
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Again: almost
Habits are hard to build. At least some of the ones you want.
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AI Literacy
Reflecting on a recent interaction with my parents. What do regular folks actually think or know about AI?
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Getting Paid and Hiring People that Are Smarter than You
Most people are not getting paid for their objective output. Instead, perceived value is a mix of decent results and reliability/predictability, which reduces complexity and cognitive load.
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An Insult to Life Itself
🔗 OpenAI’s Studio Ghibli meme factory is an insult to art itself
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Things that Almost Happened
So many things or events that we worry about, ponder, discuss, prepare for, fear, hope for, anticipate, and plan for—considering contingencies and consequences. Mostly getting our hopes up or dreading outcomes.
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Being Mad
Well, that really hits the spot.
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I'm back
Just sayin’:
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Dear Economists
I’m most certainly not an economist. As with many things, though, I am interested to grasp the basics of it. But that seems rather difficult to me. I don’t feel like I made much progress at all. Here are few semi-related inroads and dead ends of mine.
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Links
🔗 Have humans passed peak brain power?
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Access to Knowledge - 3 Levels
I got sort of pushed into working with AI for some work related tasks a while back (referring to generative AI in the form of chatbots, as appears to now be the default sociological meaning of the term). At first, I was somewhat intrigued – and curious, as usual – to talk to a computer, but also soon a bit underwhelmed with the results of my interactions. Little did I know that math of all things was not the strong suit of LLMs. 🤦🏼
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Gift-Giving
Admittedly, I have a strange relationship to giving gifts. Mostly, I found the obligatory nature and the related accounting pretty off-putting.
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Links
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Attention Is All You Need
The seminal paper that introduced transformer technology which eventually led to generative AI as we currently know it, was titled Attention is all you need (2017).
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All that Matters Is that You're Here, Working
Current hero and role model: Marc Rebillet aka Loop Daddy.
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Severance – Music To Refine To
If you are watching Severance, go to lumon-industries.com and get some work done.
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Links 2025-03-11
🔗 Hallucinations in code are the least dangerous form of LLM mistakes
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Towards More Writing
Getting the juices flowing.
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Personal Knowledge Management
The nerdy version. Because I have a draft for another article over there in which I’m making an effort to keep it all very simple.
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How to Use AI for Writing
Based on the interview with Tyler Cowen here, I wanted to extract and extend on some aspects Tyler brought up.
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