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Established AI field signal Analysis 6d ago
Ed Zitron AI skeptic predictions review

How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?

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Chris Paxton Shriram Krishnamurthi Alex Gude

“I've had this sense in the back of my head but never bothered enough to investigate. @danluu.com took the trouble to actually compile receipts. This is the new media: the best way to establish a brand is to tell people what they want to hear, over and over.…”

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Established Agents & robotics Analysis 4d ago
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AI agent lethal trifecta essay

The lethal trifecta for AI agents: private data, untrusted content, and external communication

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Olivia Guest Shriram Krishnamurthi

“I really like Simon Willison's "lethal trifecta"—which I'm most probably adding to both my fall semester courses—but I am amused at how AI is basically forcing people to re-discover long-established principles in security (in this case, OCaps). simonwilliso…”

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Established AI field signal Resource 9d ago
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programming languages course RFC

RFC: Programming Languages Course Reboot, 2026

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Ted Underwood Shriram Krishnamurthi

“Course advertising banner for my rebooted PL course. Sorry for the janky graphics, that's not my forte. (Reboot details, for those who missed it earlier: docs.google.com/document/d/e...)”

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Established Agents & robotics Signal 10d ago

Type-Error Ablation and AI Coding Agents

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Shriram Krishnamurthi

“I've been using Aider for these research experiments (not regular work) and it's been fine. arxiv.org/abs/2606.01522”

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Shriram Krishnamurthi: I've been using Aider for these research experiments (not regular work) and it's been fine. arxiv.org/abs/2606.01522
Cameron: Thank you for sharing, that made my morning.
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5 experts · 67 posts · 17d ago
Ted Underwood jake Shriram Krishnamurthi Arseny Khakhalin Singularity's Bounty e/cc
Multiple readings Building & implementation · 1 Opportunity & adoption · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Ted Underwood: The recent popularity of the move to blame AI firms for ineffective *marketing* is mostly: a) a lot of people now realize they were wrong to spend 3 yrs insisting the tech was useless + b) “I was w…
Ted Underwood: A blunter way to explain 3 years of controversy: these products were and are genuinely problematic. Making hard problems easier is not useless. But it has very awkward effects on education and will…
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2 experts · 34 posts · 16h ago
Benjamin Riley Shriram Krishnamurthi
Multiple readings Research & technical analysis · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Shriram Krishnamurthi: Biggest downside to getting my course sites finalized with Claude's help is that EVERY annoyance I have seen, I can now get fixed…so after every hour of work, my todo list is a bit longer than an h…
Benjamin Riley: Hi Shriram. I’m curious if you are familiar with Alpha School? I’m working on a story about it.
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3 experts · 10 posts · 16d ago
Shriram Krishnamurthi Carlos Scheidegger brennan
Shriram Krishnamurthi: Definitely computer programmers. I haven't seen a lot of evidence in other engineering, whereas it's pretty overwhelming for many kinds of programming.
Shriram Krishnamurthi: Though without good emulators/simulators they don't get the agentic loop and then a lot of the code could be pretty awful… But indeed, EE in particular does have a lot of those tools. I wonder how …
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