posted 8 hours ago #
A few tech related items for ya:
- The o16g Manifesto - a long treatise on "outcome engineering," aka o16g. It's a manifesto on the future of AI assisted engineering. It can be a bit heavy-handed, as manifesto's tend to be, but does have plenty of principles that resonate with my experiences. I can't say I agree with it entirely - nor do I think anyone should be dishing out such platitudes about the future - but I do think it's worth reading.
- Your App Subscription Is Now My Weekend Project - semi-related to the above; Roberto Selbach talks about writing his own AI-assisted software to replace all of his subscription software. He's not saying it's the scalable future for everyone to write and ship their own custom code but it does give a peek at the future maybe you don't have an app store with a bunch of apps you're forced to subscribe to (you'll just be forced to subscribe to an AI :sadtrombone:).
- I Doesn’t Reduce Work - It Intensifies It - very unfortunate this is behind a paywall but you likely get the gist from the headline. This piece by Aruna Ranganathan and Xingqi Maggie Ye speaks on how AI's ability to empower everyone to do everything is not making lives easier, its adding more work to everyone. This can be combated with some good internal policies on how you work with AI but it also seems like the sort of thing companies would shy away from because they want employees doing 100x more.
- The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - a research paper on what happens to two months of exposure to X's algorithmic feed. The TLDR? X is bad for you! Dr Jacobs points out:
And something we may not have known that this paper shows is that once a person gets into the right wing silo, we’ve lost them. Changing to the chronological feed does not bring them back.
More reasons for you to quite X already if you have not. Please.
