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Carlos Scheidegger

92 trust practitioner @cscheid.net · 4,212 followers
Engineer at Posit (fka RStudio), technical lead at quarto.org Learning Brazilian Choro, the 7-string guitar, and to deal with the Minneapolis winter after 10 years in Tucson
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It is 2026, and I, a relapsed catholic, gruff atheist find my attention wholly gripped by the encyclical letter. I'm genuinely shocked, but really, truly everyone should be reading it! www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas (15 May 2026) vatican.va
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  • Pope Leo XIV's 42,300-word Magnifica Humanitas, signed May 15 and published May 25, addresses AI as the central challenge to human dignity.
  • The encyclical states AI systems are 'cultivated' not 'built' and explicitly denies they possess experience, a body, or the capacity to feel pain.
  • Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah spoke at the Vatican's May 25 presentation alongside theologians and three cardinals.
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"At last we have created the Corporation That Eliminates Middle Managers from classic management text Don't Eliminate the Middle Managers!" www.programmablemutter.com/p/ai-isnt-ma...

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  • Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince laid off more than 20% of his workforce while citing Peter Drucker's 1954 management framework to explain the cuts.
  • Prince labeled laid-off workers 'measurers' — a Drucker category he applied to middle management, finance, legal, and internal auditing.
  • Henry Farrell argues Prince inverted Drucker's intent: Drucker used measurement to develop managers, not to identify who to eliminate.
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I literally just used this: simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/27/... You don't actually need 60GB of RAM if you run shorter videos (and you can splice longer videos into shorter videos v easily too). Genuine game-changer to be able to run full-text search over video transcripts.

microsoft/VibeVoice simonwillison.net
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Another observation for the "the problem it's not that they don't work; the problem is that they do" column In the last 2-3 months, LLM-generated PRs have moved from "incoherent garbage" to "does the thing the title says" But good software doesn't solve the X in an instance of the X-Y problem.

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Friends, this thing with the cleats being all the same. Is that… because everyone asked an LLM? Like, you see it at least a little, right?

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So what does the hive mind here think about the Karpathy -> Anthropic news?

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