Past Technologies Took Decades to Shrink a Job. AI Is Starting to in Three Years.
Robots and ATMs took decades to show up in employment counts. AI's first drop in employment, among young workers in exposed jobs, appeared in three years.
AI & Machine Learning
Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and neural networks
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"AI Makes Us Lazy" Comforts Experts Whose 10,000 Hours Fit in a Prompt
The people most worried that machines will make us lazy are the ones whose expertise just got cheaper. The studies measure effort moving, and the hours now do more per minute of attention.
Every Model Turns Into a Coin Flip. AI Is a Model.
Every model's forecast starts as a narrow spike and spreads until it's flat. Hurricane cones, price models and language models all follow that curve.
Vibe Coding for Fun and (No) Profit
I vibe coded a Spanish driving course in four hours. It earns nothing, and it is production quality. The checks are why.
A Model of the Thing Is Not the Thing
Ford sculpts its cars in clay, draws them in CAD, and hired about 300 veterans to retrain its AI. All three are models, and a model of the thing is not the thing.
A Stranger's LinkedIn Bio Sent Me to Hegel, and I'm Still Lost
A line in a stranger's bio sent me into a conversation about Hegel and Kant. The plain-English answer was accurate and I still couldn't follow it. The fix is the same one that teaches languages.
Your AI Can't Check Anything You Tell It. Here's How Guardrails Work
A model remembers nothing between sessions and cannot verify a word you say. The published rulebooks say more than the behavior does, and most workarounds are boring.
There's No Such Thing as "AI Ethics"
A large language model only ever produces text. Treating that text as a novel ethical category, rather than as speech, is where the argument goes wrong.
AI Could Have Done My Job in 1986
Four things to write down before you hand a job to an AI agent: what comes in, the rules, the action, and how you will check the work.
AI Doesn't Read Words. It Reads LEGO Bricks With Numbers
A token is a LEGO brick with a number on it, and almost none of the math that moves it is new.