a.) There's little interest in interrogating the downsides of generative AI, such as the environmental impact, the data theft impact, the treatment and exploitation of data workers.

b.) There's little interest in considering the extent to which, by incorporating generative AI into our teaching, we end up supporting a handful of companies that are burning billions in a vain attempt to each achieve performance that is a scintilla better than everyone else's.

c.) There's little interest in thinking about what's going to happen when the LLM companies decide that they have plateaued, that there's no more money to burn/spend, and a bunch of them fold—but we've perturbed education to such an extent that our students can no longer function without their AI helpers.

Why developers question everything

The Attention Crisis: Why Your Brain Can’t Focus Anymore

Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI

hey, I feel that one!

Why all developers should adopt a safety-critical mindset

Is anyone designing software where failures don't have consequences?

oh oh...

missing midlife crisis: why 81% of millennials say they can’t afford one because they earn 20% less than boomers did at that age

Ghost jobs: why do 40% of companies advertise positions that don’t exist?

ja sehr nice 🤩

Clicker games are the product of stripping a game down to nothing but the microtransactions and trading elements, which is likely why the developers of “Banana” don't care if it's bots or humans playing, so long as users are buying and trading content. They're earning about 10% of every sale between players, human or not

Intercept stellt mal wieder die wirklich wichtigen Fragen 💪

Conspiracy, monetisation and weirdness: this is why social media has become ungovernable

Why Is Our Culture So Obsessed With Individual Experience?

build followings at scales that were once the exclusive domain of religions and nations

To me as an engineer, that is just incredibly unsatisfying. Without understanding how something works, we are doomed to be just users

Why have so many teens and twentysomethings stopped going out?

"...software is too efficient and has this nasty tendency of being completed. Software offers us a glimpse into a post-scarcity society, but it is being actively sabotaged by those who seek to turn a profit"

aha!

War mir klar, jedoch schön zu sehen, dass das mal jemand festgehalten hat :-)