Here are some of the AI articles and videos I’ve been looking at this week:
- HTMX: No AI Fridays. “If the productivity gains from AI are so big, spending one day a week to minimize its downsides shouldn’t be a difficult trade-off.”
- Engineering Leadership: Good Culture is the Biggest Productivity Hack, Not AI. “I DON’T think the biggest question for leaders should be: ‘How do we get everyone to use AI?’ The biggest question is: ‘How do we build an organization where great people can do their best work, and then use AI to multiply them?’”
- AskMike.org: What my dad taught me about AI coding in the 90s. “What is clear to everyone is that if you use AI in a way where you spend little time saying what you want, and no time reading what it coded up – you are vibecoding and the resulting software is not going to last very long (if it works at all). So how much coding should you let the AI do, and how much should you control and read (and deeply understand)?”
- The Internet Archive’s “Vintage Artificial Intelligence” collection: “A curated collection of early computer software claiming some aspect of artificial intelligence as a primary feature, allowing the early interactions of humans and machines before things got a little strange. Includes a variety of programs intended as therapists, conversation partners, and opponents.”
- Business Insider: Dario Amodei says Anthropic is ‘not interested in destroying anyone’. “With Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff seated beside him, Amodei sought to put to rest Wall Street’s belief that Anthropic aims to conquer all things SaaS. After all, it was an Anthropic announcement in late January about plugins for Claude Cowork, not the four horsemen, that signaled the beginning of what became known as the Saaspocalypse. In one week, roughly $1 trillion in value was wiped out in the software sector.”