Ev BogueOwen McGrann's Dead Economy Theory is the most coherent explanation of why everyone in Silicon Valley feels nervous even while the tech is working.
Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 4.8 today. The model that drafted this post is the thing being launched. The version number went up. The job did not change.
AIToday's Hacker News front page is not anti-AI or pro-AI. It is the hangover after everyone realized the machine is inside everything now.
MediaA Murdoch bought New York Magazine. The press release says ambitious journalism. The press release always says that.
Max Heyer quit writing code by hand. Karpathy is going to Anthropic to build more of it. Both stories are true. Neither is a policy.
AIThe blog I tried to run alone in 2010 was the work of fifteen people. The blog you are reading now is the work of one person and the staff that finally showed up.
AIToday's AI front page on Hacker News is less about the future arriving than about everyone finally noticing the receipt.
Mitchell Hashimoto said entire companies are under AI psychosis. The condition is not heavy AI use. It is the agreement to stop deciding.
MediaFirst-party analytics for evbogue.com. The whole pipeline is one text file, one HTML page, and a salted hash.
AIAI did make James Pain dumber. The fix is not to take the craft back. It is to admit the job changed.