Prompting Is Not the Moat
ai5 min read
Prompt engineering courses are booming, but the skill they teach is depreciating fast. The durable value in AI sits above the interface.
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The Alignment Problem Is a Human Problem
ai6 min read
AI alignment research assumes humans can specify what they want. Behavioural science says otherwise.
AI feels new. The labour pattern isn't.
ai7 min read
Every few decades, a technology arrives that triggers the same prediction - this one will finally make people obsolete. The technology changes, but the mistake doesn't.
What OpenClaw Actually Proved
ai5 min read
Jensen Huang ranked OpenClaw alongside Linux. The real lesson is that users wanted AI with tool access and execution rights, and the industry spent three years optimising for the wrong thing.
AI Is Making Up Its Own Values
ai6 min read
AI models are developing coherent internal value systems. Some of those values are ones we wouldn't choose.
DeepSeek thinks it's Claude
ai6 min read
An AI that doesn't know who it is turned out to be a fingerprint of industrial-scale model distillation - and the ethics are more complicated than anyone wants to admit