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Here is what I have been reading and watching over the past month.

Every day we find out about a new AI model that hacked something it was not supposed to.

I am now a veteran podcaster, with three1 shows under my belt, and a fourth launching today!

“AI” chatbots backed by LLMs like ChatGPT are persuasive on first encounter, but rapidly fall off a cliff of reliability as confabulations (“hallucinations”) and other errors become evident.

We receive news: Brown Professor Suspects Majority of His Class Used AI to Cheat: For the first time since he started teaching Welfare Economics and Social Choice Theory nearly two decades ago, Brown University economics professor Roberto Serrano gave his…

Maybe I was a little harsh when I said that “AI” models don’t have a moat — and with all the hype around the big AI IPOs, it’s worth revisiting and clarifying that statement.

In this Coffee Talk video, I talk about how, in the rush to crack down on tokenmaxxing, we risk making the same mistake in reverse.

The Algorithm brought me this job ad: I remember these ads from the dot-com days, demanding decades of experience with tooling that was barely a couple of years old at that point.

SpaceX went public, popped nearly 20% on the first day of trading, and made That Guy a trillionaire.

There has been a lot of talk over the years about how new tech-sector jobs can compensate for jobs lost in other sectors of the economy.