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The New Old Skills
AI hype has created plenty of fear about being replaced by robot overlords, which has made me ask myself: What are the essential, non-replaceable parts of our jobs?
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This Has Always Been the Job
AI is changing my job and yours, and it is a reflection of the failings of our socio-cultural and technical systems. These are two conclusions I've come to in my deep dive into AI developer tools in the past two weeks. And I'm not alone: * Test
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Misinformation and AI
Big surprise. AI is not neutral. Hyperallergic recently reported that DeepSeek refused to answer questions about Ai WeiWei. I've tried this myself with Ai WeiWei and Tank Man and DeepSeek at first suggested it couldn't help but with a few careful prompts it appeared to know
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Critical Thinking
I am beginning to think that the failings of AI are a reflection of the failings of our own socio-cultural systems. The paper linked below outlines critical thinking motivators and inhibitors when using AI. People are motivated to think critically when they desire to improve work quality, avoiding negative outcomes
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A Day in the Life of a Programmer in 2026
Working with AI will mean that we can focus on outcomes, systems design, and nuanced test cases,
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AI Will Change My Job and Yours
If you had asked me how AI has changed my work a few months ago, I would have said that I get a few tedious tasks done faster and use it for a bit of research, but my job hasn't changed much otherwise. In the past month, I
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How Do LLM-Suggested Edits Work in Text Editors
LLMs Need Context, Just Us Context. I need context to understand what you're talking about. Give me a one line Jira ticket and I'll spend the next half hour finding context and probably pestering you for more information. Once I have that, I'll probably
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Samuel Johnson, the Unexpected Grandfather of LLMs
As many people have I've been trying out a handful of LLMs to assist with coding. I've found them very useful tackling mundane tasks that might otherwise take me a few minutes, or at times hours, to accomplish on my own This reminds me of a