Cat Hicks

You could take a look at this as a replacement mitpress.mit.edu/978026205248...

mitpress.mit.edu

I haven't gone and verified any of this myself because tbh, waste of my limited time imho. But this is a pretty fascinating project I remember reading sites.google.com/view/elizaar...

ELIZA Archaeology - 3 Weizenbaum's Secretary sites.google.com

preprint: arxiv.org/pdf/2508.02740

arxiv.org

Ok apparently there are papers! I dug up one arxiv.org/abs/2410.06351

Moving Faster and Reducing Risk: Using LLMs in Release Deployment arxiv.org

I would like the learning scientists and assessment psychologists outside of tech to please look at this dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

dl.acm.org

Just finished the CTO Hour with O'Reilly on eng metrics and agentic dev teams. I'll summarize a few high-level takeaways www.oreilly.com/live-events/...

CTO Hour with Peter Bell: Engineering Metrics for Agentic Development Teams oreilly.com

I've been thinking about my previous life in data science/applied computational social science and how many people have always been cut off from that. I hear a lot of examples of "I can't believe I can do this" from friends about LLMs that are along the lines of finally being able to look at data

In pseudoscience folk theories about AI and cognition I'm kind of surprised we're just limited to labeling all human behavior as "psychosis", we could also have "AI depersonalization," "AI derealization", "AI folie à deux" "AI alexithymia" like come on where is the theoretical richness

Millions of doctors are using OpenEvidence (65% of US doctors according to an article from May) without their patients ever knowing it but patients in so many desperate circumstances are supposed to beg forgiveness for ever asking AI a health question

Everybody is sooooooo nice but honestly I am reading pull requests on my learning opportunities skill with my head in my hands "AI skill decay" more like AI skill explody parsing these terms like I'm learning hieroglyphics

Reading a new paper on AI coding tool adoption across two tools. Which in many ways has some nice more complex thinking than the usual. Still seems like it measures "manager already using the new tool" and "engineer's own prior use of the old tool" as two separate independent variables.

I have looked at the accessibility landscape multiple times for temporary disabilities (lost my voice when I battled back from lung damage, have vision issues that have been sometimes worse and sometimes better), now I have serious serious hand pain, and the impact of AI on this stuff is unreal