AI & Robotics

Legacy social media sites have been designed to keep us hooked to our devices, eyes glued endlessly to retina-frying feeds of memes and dumb videos in order to create more engaged platforms for advertisements. In recent years, however, a swell of companies have sought to capitalize on users’ burnout, pushing users to engage in IRL experiences, or offering products without addictive features…

Sometimes, things are not just one thing – they’re also another thing. This sentence construction (“It’s not just this – it’s that”) has become so common in AI-generated writing that now, it’s no longer just a clue that a piece of writing may be synthetic – it’s almost a guarantee. That’s why I was not just intrigued when I saw a…

There’s an old saw in management: What you measure matters. And, typically, you get more of whatever you’re measuring. Software engineers have debated productivity metrics for decades, starting with lines of code. But as the new generation of AI coding agents delivers more code than ever, what their managers ought to be measuring is less clear. Enormous token budgets &#8211…