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Developing Culture, work & education Analysis 1d ago
AI as boss not assistant essay

AI is not an assistant – it's your new boss (The Everything App part 2)

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Ali Alkhatib Pavel

“Yeah, it's one of the things Nothing Managers love most about AI: they can completely isolate themselves from all other people”

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Pavel: Lots of thinkpieces about how workers should think of "AI agents" as colleagues. Which, sure. I've had colleagues I always avoid because getting them to do anything useful is like pulling teeth, an…
Ali Alkhatib: that colleague who traumatized data workers during their training period, produces deepfakes of unwilling women, has no connection to reality like you or me, and CANNOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES part…
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: In my last real “tech” job I was the designated guy who took all of the code the super-prolific “distinguished engineer” generated without any planning and put into production over the weekend, to …
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Established AI field signal Analysis 3d ago
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critical AI essay olivia science

Critical AI

4 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Iris van Rooij Olivia Guest Anthony Moser Pavel
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Multiple readings

Concern & critique

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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“All the critical AI stuff is here if useful olivia.science/ai 💞”

Research & technical analysis

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Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“@olivia.science of course has a great collection including a lot of her own research olivia.science/ai/”

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Olivia Guest: There's no engineering reason for human shaped robots other than that one actually. And there's so many engineering reasons against. The sooner people realise it has always been true & sexist (oliv…
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Thomas Dietterich: My colleague Jonathan Hurst (at Agility Robotics) has a long list of reasons why humanoid robots make sense. For years he was opposed to humanoids, but he found that for lifting and carrying loads,…
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Developing AI field signal Analysis 1d ago
AI not substitute software project management

AI is not a substitute for knowing how to run software projects

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Pavel

“Execs think that AI can magically fix all their org's problems: their data problem, their PDLC problem, their PMF problem. But AI is not magic. It's just a technology — and like all novel technologies, incorporating it into your process only expands the num…”

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Established Agents & robotics Analysis 3d ago
agentic coding tools open source commit study

𝐀𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐜𝐨𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐜𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐬𝐭? 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐝: 🎯Across 182 open source projects, we tracked >30K commits from… | Courtney Miller

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Pavel

“AI code leads to a 45% increase in the maintenance burden on human coders”

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