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The Purpose Isn’t What It Does
“The purpose of a system is what it does.” Such a neat little turn of phrase; it makes you sound wise and cynical and like a person who sees through things. But it’s mostly wrong and almost alway
The Pulse: a new trend of CPU shortages
After a GPU shortage and memory shortage driven by AI companies, we’re now experiencing a CPU shortage, thanks to AI agents using a lot more CPU with tool usage.
Fragments: September 24
Rob Bowley is “flipping tables in his head” with anger at the current media coverage of the danger of AI killing us all The risk I’m worried about isn’t a future machine deciding to wipe us out. It’s
Healthy Feedback
Human collaboration, like most things, improves with feedback. But it's not obvious how to make feedback effective. Anuja Karnik and Sumeet Gayathri Moghe pass on a bevy of tips for health
No, Transformers Won't End the Human Race lol
No, Transformers Won't End the Human Race lol In 2022, I used to get calls from journalists asking, with great sincerity, what our lives would look like in the metaverse. How would we work, socialise,
You Own the Outcome: Product Engineering in the Age of AI
Agents are great at producing code. The valuable work left for you is deciding what should exist, how it should behave, and what you're willing to trade for it.