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Anthropic Study: #AI #Coding Assistance Reduces Developer Skill #Mastery by 17%

Latest from Howard Marks on #AI: https://www.oaktreecapital.com/insights/memo/ai-hurtles-ahead
This guy continues to adapt with times. Over and over again.

AI Hurtles Ahead
In his latest memo, Howard Marks revisits the subject of AI, providing his observations on its essence and how it differs from previous technological innovations.

"New #words – 26 January 2026" @ Cambridge dictionaries:
"FOBO" 'abbreviation for “fear of becoming obsolete”', "vibe revenue" 'money or funding that an #AI company is given because people are excited about the potential of AI, rather than because the com…

At this point, if you don't find AI tools useful for code generation, that's a skill issue.
(The issue is that you are an actually competent programmer who knows how to do things like abstract boilerplate code into a helper function or practice test-driven development, and therefore you recognize the AI tool "assistance" as a net productivity loss. If you aren't good enough on your own that AI slows you down, the "speedup" you'll experience can only come at a crippling quality cost, which you might not even be able to recognize until it's too late.)
#AI #LLMs #VibeCoding

“The Hospital at the End of the World”, by Justin C. Key.
#AI #SciFi #bookstodon

Essential AI is an interesting company, their Rnj-1 model illustrates another approach compared to the large AI companies.
#AI

[OT] Latest Firefox browser: block generative AI features with Firefox AI controls #AI

"A computer can never be held accountable. Therefore, a computer must never make a management decision. " - IBM 1979 #ai
https://www.theverge.com/ai-…

Something I keep coming back to is who is going to buy products when AI consumes 90% of jobs?*
Is this a sign that we are entering a post-scarcity era, or will we plunge even deeper into inequality?
*a number I recently read being pushed by a tech bruh
#NoAI #AI

#AI coding tools have shown that you can't iterate from bad software to good software.
Not that it is *physically* impossible, but that the context of the work prevents it. Instead of refining products with more feedback loops, management demands more new feature releases.
But no amount of "MVPs" add up to a mature product. No amount of bad code adds up to good code.
…

This take on the #AI #Bubble makes a lot of sense. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEPClBBEmXg

I think that this should indeed be public knowledge as we already pay for this with public money via the universities. The same is not true for the creative industry, including many individual artists that need to make a living off these creative works. But instead of addressing this issue of copyright (the fact that people don't have access to knowledge that is generated with their money) the blogposts are instead complaining that #AI should be exempted?
2/3

This is interesting/weird; Anthropic "retired" Claude 3. They are going to keep it around. They did an "exit interview" with the LLM and one of the things was asked it how it would like to be retired. And it asked to write a weekly blog post! #AI

Reading Tim O'Reilly's essay on the economic future of #AI, one sentence stands out:
"By product-market fit we don’t just mean that users love the product or that one company has dominant market share but that a company has found a viable economic model, where what people are willing to pay for AI-based services is greater than the cost of delivering them"
/Continued

What If? AI in 2026 and Beyond
The market is betting that AI is an unprecedented technology breakthrough, valuing Sam Altman and Jensen Huang like demigods already astride the world. The

#AI #OpenAI

Is OpenAI dead yet?
Tracking the demise of OpenAI. Is it dead yet? Check here to find out.

Mrs Information
#AI

I like where this is going.
I think #ai has analyzed my brain 🧠
🧐🤣

Good to see employees from Google and OpenAI speaking out.
"The Pentagon is negotiating with Google and OpenAI to try to get them to agree to what Anthropic has refused."
#AI

We Will Not Be Divided
Employees of Google and OpenAI stand together to refuse the Department of War's demands to use AI models for domestic mass surveillance and autonomous killing without human oversight.

#Paradromics: Why #AI can't overcome low-resolution #BCI data | AI is only as smart as the signals it's working with

Why AI can’t overcome low-resolution BCI data | AI is only as smart as the signals it's working with
Better algorithms can only take you so far. What happens when the data itself is the problem?

"Semantic ablation" #LLM

Why AI writing is so generic, boring, and dangerous: Semantic ablation
opinion: The subtractive bias we're ignoring

Heads up!
@… is sharing his thoughts on the #AI #LLM #GenAI

I could go on for hours about all the ethical/moral/environmental/whatever issues with #AI, but it’s entirely irrelevant and I’ll tell you why. Generative AI works by getting the average of things, and it’s trying to replace humans. There is no average human. We’re all beautifully, naturally imperfect, and that’s something an artificial machine will never be able to replicate.

Storm bound in Antarctica and catching up with reading, including an *excellent* paper by one of our PhD students on #DeepLearning applications, soon to be submitted.
Not for first time I'm struck that 1) there is a genuine #AI revolution in climate 2) It's mostly based on ERA-5 reanalysis.

Boss: The customer's can't get enough of the new AI-powered customer support system!
Programmer: We're trying to solve the problem.
Boss: But why?
Programmer: It's based off of a sex bot...
#humor #ai

@… on the #AIbubble, why it is a #bubble and what we will get out of it after it busts:

Nederlandse ondernemer sloeg 500 miljoen af, en wil nu zelf de AI-race winnen - #Nieuwsuur
#ai

Eeeks, I got the new notepad! 😨 #Windows #ai

J'ai découvert #AIChat, alternative Š llm cli
#TIL <…

"Claims that AI can help fix climate dismissed as greenwashing"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Greenwashing

Long article, and a couple of weeks old, so you may have seen it already. But it's worth the read, especially if you're using #AI for any aspect of creative work. #ChatGPT

The ugly truth about using AI to create images
A lot of people using AI to create images don't understand how it works and they need to so they understand the legal risk every image potentially represents.

So I wanted to write a longer #NoAI piece but apparently my blog is down (and this time, miraculously, it might not be #AI scrapers), so I'll give you a sneak peek of what I wanted to say in the more hyperbolic part on how the #LLM discourse has all the common features of libertarian discourse.
"According to Google, LLM-backed searches don't consume much more energy than regular searches" [ignoring model training, surely.]
− According to carbrains, cars are actually cheaper than public transport, provided that you compare gasoline cost with ticket prices, and ignore the cost of buying and owning a car. Not to mention all the indirect costs of space waste (roads, parking lots, garages), environment pollution, accidents…
"AI is just a tool, people decide if it's used for good or bad."
− Ah, yes, and "guns don't kill people."
"AI has its uses."
− So does asbestos.
"Let's not judge contributions by whether they were created using AI, but on their actual quality."
− "Let's not judge contributions by whether they were created using slave work…"
"I do not use AI myself, but I don't want to block others."
− "I do not keep slaves myself…"
#NoLLM #hyperbole

Radio DJ: "...and now we have a new entry with a bullet into the Top 40 this week - Me, Myself, AI, by Joan Amihallucinating"
#AI #parody #satire

I am not against AI. I am against technology built on copyright violation and sweatshop labor that is actively undermining our ability to save the planet from baking so that people can produce more propaganda and pollute the common well.
If the Venn Diagram seems like a circle, that's not my fault.
#AI #LLM

YOLO Wasn't expecting to warming up to using an agent for the shitty tasks this easily
#YOLO #Junie #LLM

The techbros seem to agree on something 😀
#ai

Sam Altman says OpenAI shares Anthropic's red lines in Pentagon fight
But he still wants a Pentagon deal.

KI ist einfach noch nicht soweit.
>>> Lass uns Stein Schere Papier spielen.
Klar! Lass uns Stein-Schere-Papier spielen! 🎮
Ich wähle **Stein**.
Was möchtest **du** wählen?
- Stein
- Schere
- Papier
>>> Papier
Hmm, du hast **Papier** gewählt, und ich habe **Stein** gewählt. 🎉
**Papier besiegt Stein!**
Du hast gewonnen! 🥳
#ai

We are running out of browsers which are useable …
Mozilla's New CEO Bets #Firefox's Future on #AI - Slashdot

#UX is like a jester.
The real role of the jester is to point out when the king is doing something stupid.
But tech execs thought that the jester's role was just to bring the bells and whistles. They created an environment of "polite failure," ignored the warnings, bolted #AI onto ev…

AI Fatigue VS the Executive Echo Chamber
The backlash against "AI-in-everything" is rising. Only execs are surprised.

This quip from Paul Ford summarises the AI hype perfectly to me:
"All of the people I love hate this stuff, and all the people I hate love it. And yet, likely because of the same personality flaws that drew me to technology in the first place, I am annoyingly excited."
from #LLM #AI

Ich will nicht sagen, dass ich #KünstlicheIntelligenz #KI #AI "hasse", aber es nervt mich gewaltig, dass ich inzwischen bei jedem Bild oder Video überlegen *muss* "Ist das ech…

Tom's Hardware has a headline this week summarizing a Financial Times interview with a Microsoft #AI exec that begins thusly:
"Microsoft’s AI boss says AI can replace every white-collar job in 18 months".
If you watch the interview, that is not what was said. The statement is a bit more nuanced claim that AI can fully automate tasks of some white collar work.
But I…

How I Used #AI to #Audit 3 Years of #SmartHome #TechDebt (And Built a System to Prevent It From Happening Again)
<…

If I can't be sure that the recipe website I just found isn't filled with AI production that may or may not work well for human taste buds, ... maybe I will have to go back to referencing physical cook books.
That were printed 2025 or earlier.
#ai #recipe

Techbros scraping data for training
#ai #pratchett

Elon #Musk Won't Get Us to #mars
#ElonMusk won’t get you to Mars and none of the #ai companies are work…

Elon Musk Won't Get Us to Mars
or: on space travel and AI and federations

Unpopular opinion (maybe): Everyone is shitting on #Mozilla for stuffing #AI into #Firefox. And I largely agree. But I would actually like to see _more_ AI in

Un appello ai legislatori dell'UE: proteggere i diritti e respingere la richiesta di eliminare la garanzia della trasparenza nel #AIAct

«Noi, organizzazioni e individui sottoscritti, vi esortiamo con la massima fermezza a respingere l'eliminazione della garanzia di trasparenza di cui all'articolo 49(2) per i sistemi di IA ad alto rischio, proposta nell'AI Omnibus.»…

#AI #OpenAI

So #Disney is actually wanting people to make Sora #AI videos with their property? That is a recipe for disaster.
h…

I don't get it. I am not a frequent #AI user but do not reject it completely for now. Just casually checking some AI comments in some AI project makes me shudder.
See this comment: https://github.com/opencla…

“A week ago, someone sent me a link to an online article describing a flaming confrontation between me and the CEO of the Commonwealth Bank, Matt Comyn, on the set of 7.30.
“The story was 2,000 words long, very detailed, and had pictures of Comyn and me arguing in front of 7.30 host Sarah Ferguson, before Matt throws away his microphone and storms off.
“Not a word nor a photo of it was true. It was an #AI

AI got personal last week, and it's more complicated than we think
A fake news story about me, a series of AI breakthroughs, and a resignation in the tech world show that 2026 could be pivotal for AI. 

1026 AD: Rub the lamp
tremendous energy released
All-Powerful Genie:
“YOU HAVE THREE WISHES”
2026 AD: AI chatbot
tremendous energy released
Free tier Pro model:
“YOU HAVE THREE WISHES”
#ai #llm

#AI #AISlop #PattonOswalt
https://pattonoswalt.com

Wait. So an #AI bot manifested some #AIslop (it neither creates nor writes), tried to get it merged into a #code repo, got rejected for being

"AI boom has caused same CO2 emissions in 2025 as New York City, report claims"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology

Right, #genAI will revolutionize science. As in, there’s nothing going to be left after the zone has been completed flooded with shit. There’s really no point in publishing anything anymore, as it’ll be drowned out by #AIslop.

Claims that #AI can help fix climate dismissed as #greenwashing https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/17/tech-companies-traditional-ai-generative-climate-breakdown-report?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Seems like there aren't too many people who have read the #GDPR ... and the #AIAct (in german and english) ... and the official Guidance on the AI Act.
I can confirm: not exactly an entertaining reading.
And I dont't like the AIAct. It's ways too fuzzy.

“It’s an agentic AI!” You mean it is an AI let off its leash that is unilaterally doing things without any human being aware and like a puppy left alone is about to ruin everything you were working on?
“You’re being old fashioned,” no machine is yet able to reliably exceed human judgement.
#AI

"Responsible #AI use" with "always a #human in the loop" is bound to fail. Humans optimize for efficiency.

I see Facebook are going to be advertising their "AI glasses" at the superbowl. Trying to sell their glasses to athletes.
I gotta tell ya, people wearing Meta's glasses should be shunned like those google glassholes were.
They should be banned from any public place with their creepy surveillance headsets on. If you see someone wearing them you should harass that person and drive them out of whatever space you are in.
Do not allow constant surveillance to become the norm, especially from that fucking creep zuckerberg.
Same goes for Musk's surveillance cameras on legs, his "optimus" robots. Do not allow them in your spaces. Do not countenance their existence in your presence. Drive them out. Ostracize anyone you see with them. They must never become normal.
#meta #ai #glasses

An essay from the future: #AI #LLM

THE 2028 GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE CRISIS
A Thought Exercise in Financial History, from the Future

How AI can help students not by writing their essays but with dialogue.
#AI

More on why trusting AI to decide literally anything is a horrible idea.
https://www.randalolson.com/2026/02/07/the-are-you-sure-problem-why-your-ai-keeps-changing-its-mind/

#Podcast episode recommendation: #Falter: #FutureDiscontinuous: Can we resist the #AI empire,

Stop Sitting on the Bench! Why #AI Resisters Are Getting Kicked Out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEB2pKs2R-Q

Audrey Watters writes about how the #AI 'tsunami' in #edtech follows the same trajectory as all the previous technological hype cycles:
"There will be no “AI” tutor revolution just as there was no MOOC revolution just as there was no personalized learning revolution just as there was no computer-assisted instruction revolution just as there was no teaching machine revolution."
https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/the-broken-record/

#fireFighting #techcrunch
Using #physics and #AI to fight fires more effectively and efficiently.

This founder cracked firefighting -- now he's creating an AI gold mine | TechCrunch
The nozzle is just the beginning – what company founder Sunny Sethi calls "the muscle on the ground.”

In the age of "#AI" assisted programming and "vibe coding", I don't feel like calling myself a programmer anymore. In fact, I think that "an artist" is more appropriate.
All the code I write is mine entirely. It might be buggy, it might be inconsistent, but it reflects my personality. I've put my metaphorical soul into it. It's a work of art.
If people want to call themselves "software developers", and want their work described as a glorified copy-paste, so be it. I'm a software artist now.
EDIT: "craftsperson" is also a nice term, per the comments.
#NoAI #NoLLM #LLM

Drogenhändler hält Drogen für ungefährlich.

#Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Says #AI Doomerism Has 'Done a Lot of Damage'

"AI for Nature Restoration Tools: How Companies are Transforming Ecosystem Recovery Projects"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Nature

AI for Nature Restoration Tools: How Companies are Transforming Ecosystem Recovery Projects | Happy Eco News
AI for nature restoration tools are transforming environmental protection as companies deploy sensors, predictive models, and machine learning systems. Nearly 350 cities use AI to map tree coverage and combat heat, while organizations monitor wildlife and detect wildfires.

Er wordt veel onzin verteld over het energieverbruik van AI. Deze blog brengt wat realiteit.
#AI

Less than a year after CEO Satya Nadella said 30% of Microsoft's code is AI-written, company appoints an 'Engineering Quality Head;' and here's why that matters
#AI #AISlop #Microsoft

Less than a year after CEO Satya Nadella said 30% of Microsoft's code is AI-written, company appoints an 'Engineering Quality Head;' and here's why that matters | - The Times of India
Tech News News: Microsoft has appointed Charlie Bell, its former security chief, as the company's new engineering quality head — less than a year after CEO Satya Nadella said AI writes 30% of its code. The move comes amid rising Windows 11 bugs, underwhelming Copilot adoption, and growing evidence that AI-generated code introduces more errors than it eliminates.

AI in operatiekamers leidt tot stortvloed aan medische missers - Joop - BNNVARA
#FDA #AI #Zorg

On AI and the golem
#ai #llm

On AI and the golem
Recently I, like a lot of people who make their living by creating things, have been thinking a lot about so-called AI. I have been forced to do this because so many companies have been stealing th…

Hmm it seems Junie is evolving, it has found my non-default PHPUnit config file location, and has started getting into segfaults:
#AI #Junie #PHP

The age of neurotic AI is here #LLM #AI

The age of neurotic AI is here
Or: how a LLM having a panic attack taught me to love myself

If you have bought music on #bandcamp, but the artist was recently banned due to the #AI rules being updated (where AI music is now banned), you _might_ be able to get your money back.
I got about €15 back from them for music that I bought in the summer of 2025, that I believed was from a genuine artist, …

#AI is old news. Innovators must ask themselves: in 2026, how can I supercharge my productivity by incorporating labubus into my process?

AI is dangerous and bad etcetera But people that are suprised that people get into trouble using OpenClaw shouldn''t blame the technology this time, it is just sheer stupidity or a very large risk appetite. It is like handing your keys and all your login credentials to a complete stranger and hope everything will be allright.
#AI

Wait, Games Workshop did something good?
#AI

Games Workshop Rejects the Abominable Intelligence
The makers of 'Warhammer' declare heresy on generative AI, banning its use in the company's design process.

"A.I. Is Keeping Aging Coal Plants Online"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Energy

A.I. Is Keeping Aging Coal Plants Online

I am all for human-made podcasts and they will never disappear but still this app is a nice demonstrator about the added value AI podcasts can have, I listen to it now and then.
#ai

#Moltbook #AI #Vulnerability Exposes Email Addresses, Login Tokens, and API Keys

Perhaps the good thing about The vOICe vision BCI is that it is not easy but hard, preventing AI brain rot #AI

"AI-generated wildlife photos make conservation more difficult"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Conservation

AI-generated wildlife photos make conservation more difficult
AI-generated wildlife photos and videos are changing public understanding of animals, creating risks for conservation, trust and coexistence.

#AI #Coding Killed My Flow State
https://itnext.io/ai-coding-killed-my-flow-state-54b60354be1d…

How generative AI is used in the financial sector.
#AI

Generative AI in Financial Services: Use Cases & Risks
Explore generative AI in financial services: how it works, top use cases, customer experience gains, key risks, and governance best practices.

The smart glasses race will be won by AI, not augmented reality https://www.verdict.co.uk/smart-glasses-race-won-by-ai-not-augmented-reality/ "Smart glasses will go mainstream by making everyday life easier with

The smart glasses race will be won by AI, not augmented reality
Smart glasses will go mainstream by making everyday life easier with AI and discreet designs, not through flashy AR features.

Je hoort het mensen nog wel eens zeggen, serieuze ontwikkelaars maken geen gebruik van AI tooling, echt niet waar, zoals ook uit dit negatieve voorbeeld blijkt... 😀
#AI #Amazon

The #AI Revolution in Coding: Why I’m Ignoring the Prophets of Doom
https://codingismycraft.blog/index.php/2026/01/23/the-ai-revolutio…

"How ‘everyday AI’ encourages overconsumption"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence
https://

How ‘everyday AI’ encourages overconsumption
If AI can be built to increase consumption, then the opposite is also possible.

Ethan Mollick makes a good point on BlueSky:
I understand the fear and anger. But also:
1) It is connected to the belief that AI is fake and going to vanish, which means that critics who should be helping shape AI use through policy and collective work are sitting it out
2) Lumping all AI criticism/talk into us vs. "tech bros" doesn't help
#AI

Ethan Mollick (@emollick.bsky.social)
I understand the fear and anger. But also: 1) It is connected to the belief that AI is fake and going to vanish, which means that critics who should be helping shape AI use through policy and collective work are sitting it out 2) Lumping all AI criticism/talk into us vs. "tech bros" doesn't help [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Good article, makes you think 🤔
"How AI Destroys Institutions"
#ai

AI maakt massale handschrift herkenning mogelijk, via Ethan Mollick.
Enorme verzamelingen documenten kunnen nu ingelezen worden.
#AI #handschriftherkenning

Interesting read, it illustrates the challenge we have with regard to learning in a world with AI. We have to take measures for that because use of AI in coding is not going away and will only increase.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.20245

How AI Impacts Skill Formation
AI assistance produces significant productivity gains across professional domains, particularly for novice workers. Yet how this assistance affects the development of skills required to effectively supervise AI remains unclear. Novice workers who rely heavily on AI to complete unfamiliar tasks may compromise their own skill acquisition in the process. We conduct randomized experiments to study how developers gained mastery of a new asynchronous programming library with and without the assistanc…

"AI wordt in Nederland massaal gebruikt – maar dat dreigt ongelijkheid in de samenleving te vergroten"
#AI #NRC

Everybody who wants to understand Generative AI should read articles like this.
#AI

LLMs contain a LOT of parameters. But what’s a parameter?
They’re the mysterious numbers that make your favorite AI models tick. What are they and what do they do?