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#curated-finds
Bryan Newbold's quote captures why leaving X matters—network effects work both ways, and institutions moving to Bluesky could trigger the tipping point.
Discover how the normalization of deviance threatens AI systems (or why companies gradually accept risky shortcuts)
Elena Verna critiques AI credit pricing models and urges product teams to rethink how they charge for AI-powered features.
Geoffrey Litt compares effective coding with AI support to a surgeon working with a skilled team, staying hands-on with the core.
Reflecting on the business of cleaning up AI-generated code and why vibe-to-production services are becoming lucrative.
Michael Bassili laments losing em dashes to safety filters and how AI tooling reshapes writing habits for bloggers.
Bruce Schneier argues we still lack defenses against malicious LLM inputs and outlines why current security approaches fall short.
Highlighting Anu Atluru's take on doomprompting—how short, lazy prompts make us passive creators and duller conversationalists.
Explaining slopsquatting—the tactic of registering fake packages that LLMs hallucinate, priming supply-chain attacks.
Orta Therox frames AI-assisted coding as programming's photography moment, where new tools reshape craft rather than replace it.
Vincent Schmalbach personifies his LLMs like quirky interns, comparing ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok personalities.
Simon Willison's identify–solve–verify mantra on why humans remain essential to guide, debug, and validate LLM-generated work.
John Rush shares how he builds a personal AI factory with Claude Code, MCP, and agents, mirroring my own coding workflow.
Simon Willison outlines the lethal trifecta for AI agents—private data, untrusted content, and external communication risks.
Devansh argues fine-tuning LLMs is destructive overwriting. Use RAG, adapters, or prompt engineering instead.
Sean Goedecke on why debugging is emotionally challenging—it breaks our comforting illusions of control and understanding.
OpenAI's o3 model can identify photo locations—a powerful but dystopian capability that raises serious privacy concerns.
Drew Breunig on how AI is flipping the script: coding is becoming commodified while domain expertise becomes the real differentiator.
Exploring the security risks of MCP and why it may not be production-ready. Key vulnerabilities include shell access and secret exposure.
Matt Webb on why blogging is a political act: owning your words free from algorithmic control and platform values.
How LLMs are empowering idea people to build and prototype without traditional coding skills—the future of rapid iteration.
Anthropic's new economic index tracks how LLMs impact the economy and labor market, providing data for evidence-based AI regulation.
The irony of OpenAI complaining about data theft when it built its company on unauthorized data collection—plus an intro to model distillation.
ChatGPT is now surprisingly good at history, noticing details that even experts miss—like having your own Benjamin Gates.
Steph Ango on local-first architecture: systems should remain operational even when infrastructure goes down.
Molly White on why digital sovereignty matters: move what you care about to spaces you control, not corporate platforms.
A practical guide to AI prototyping tools for product managers: when to use v0, Bolt, Replit, and Lovable for different use cases.
Simon Willison reveals ChatGPT Tasks system prompt by getting the model to output its internal scheduling instructions.
A curated list of ~50 essential AI engineering papers for 2025, selected for practical relevance to working AI engineers.
Using chain-of-thought prompting to control LLM responses in constrained game environments and prevent unwanted associations.
Why dismissing LLMs as 'just next-token predictors' misses the emergent intelligence, reasoning, and creativity they develop.
Experiment: can iteratively asking LLMs to 'write better code' actually improve output, or does it lead to over-engineering?
Simon Willison's comprehensive review of key LLM developments, breakthroughs, and lessons learned throughout 2024.
John Gruber compares OpenAI to Netscape: leading product but no durable competitive moat in an increasingly commoditized AI market.
A critical analysis of Bluesky's decentralization claims: is it truly decentralized or just a Twitter replacement with credible exit?
Breaking free from perfectionism in writing: why publishing shorter, imperfect content is more liberating than endless editing.
Exploring the generational divide: users who expect auto-save vs. those who still want manual save buttons.
A wall-mounted diffusion mirror using Raspberry Pi 5 and Stable Diffusion to turn reflections into real-time AI-generated paintings.
Scott C. Richmond on the critical question of how technology scales down in an age of monopolies and centralized power.
Tech news: FCC kills net neutrality, Mirai botnet was a Minecraft scheme, and cryptocurrency developments.
Tech roundup: Level 3 internet outage, DOJ encryption debate, Facebook shadow profiles, and $300M cryptocurrency bug.
A curated roundup covering WPA2 KRACK vulnerability, China's social credit system, Wall Street automation, and tech security news.
Tech security news: Disqus data breach, We Heart It hack, Equifax redirects to malware, and Dow Jones testing mishap.
Weekly tech roundup: AIM shutdown, FEMA deletes Puerto Rico data, UK WhatsApp encryption debate, and Equifax breach details.
Tech news: Deloitte cyberattack, Equifax state-sponsored hack suspicions, Uber threatens Quebec exit, and Firefox Quantum launch.
Tech news roundup: Uber loses London license, Google acquires HTC talent, CCleaner malware attack, and more tech industry updates.
Tech news: Equifax breach exposes 150M accounts, China bans ICOs, Bluetooth security flaw, and Silicon Valley politics study.
Tech news: HBO security breaches, voting machine data leaks, prison coding bans, and online radicalization research.
Tech news roundup: Charlottesville aftermath, tech companies dropping neo-Nazis, Trump's business councils, and China's AI strategy.
Weekly roundup: Google diversity memo controversy, white hat hacker arrests, Disney leaving Netflix, and DNA-based malware.
Tech news: WannaCry hero arrested, Uber CEO search, SoundCloud collapse, Reddit funding, and cryptocurrency developments.
Tech news: Sweden's massive data breach, Amazon Prime Day pricing issues, and Library of Congress opening its catalogs.
Weekly tech roundup: Bitcoin civil war, $31M Ethereum hack, Canada's AI growth, and Android security threats.
Tech finds: historic net neutrality day of action, Google's automated news project, and bacteria storing animated GIFs.
Weekly finds: AI-generated fake videos, Facebook tracking, scientific paper piracy, and massive Medicare data breach.
Tech news: Petya ransomware outbreak, EU fines Google €2.42B for search manipulation, and emerging mobile technologies.
Tech news: Amazon acquires Whole Foods, Uber CEO resigns, NSA contributes to open source, and net neutrality's impact on IoT.
Weekly tech roundup: Mary Meeker's Internet Trends 2017, power grid vulnerabilities, and blockchain enterprise adoption.
Curated finds: crypto tokens, AI replacing humans, Russian election hacking, and Google's ad blocker strategy.
Tech roundup: Elon Musk quits White House councils, Wikipedia HTTPS censorship fight, and US intelligence data breaches.
Weekly finds: Bitcoin scarcity, AI political influence, criminal justice data transparency, and privacy commodification.
Tech newsletter: WannaCry ransomware, FCC net neutrality vote, Google's AI-first strategy, and NSA exploit leaks.
Curated finds: AI diversity, data as the new oil, Google's future, and data visualization trends.
Tech roundup: Turkey blocks Wikipedia, FBI encryption debate, NSA surveillance changes, and AI developments.
Weekly finds: Wikitribune launch, Facebook Instant Articles, Google ad-blocking, and tech diversity issues.
Tech newsletter: USAFacts data project, phishing attacks, PGP key security, and AI accessibility trends.
Tech finds: Mastodon disruption, Instagram Stories growth, Google fact-checking, and net neutrality in India.
Weekly tech roundup: YouTube monetization changes, Tim Berners-Lee Turing Award, deep learning, and React resources.
Tech newsletter: ISP privacy rollback, Russian hacker investigation, fake news trust, and startup ecosystem rankings.
Curated tech finds: net neutrality, ISP privacy rules, website security, chatbots, and web development resources.