Posts:
Oct 20
https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/an-opinionated-guide-to-using-ai Notable ideas from this article: - the AI doesn’t know “why” it did something, so asking it to explain its logic will not get you anywhere. - Sycophancy: act as a critic. Otherwise, you might be talking to a very sophisticated yes-man...Read more
Oct 15
"it’s a call for balance: to use digital tools to augment our thinking rather than to offload the mental processes that we need to learn and develop expertise. Learners can't think critically with knowledge they don’t have." https://scienceoflearning.substack.com/p/edu-snippets-e29
Oct 1
Interesting observations from the Economic Futures Symposium: "The productivity story looks simple. The cultural story is not." - Roles are shifting: engineers now see themselves as managers of AI agents - Mentorship is eroding: junior staff turn first to Claude for answers - Skills are in flux: p...Read more
Sep 23
AI Slop Fatigue and Analog Intelligence - https://marketoonist.com/2025/09/ai-slop-fatigue-and-analog-intelligence.html
Sep 16
“We must prepare students for a world where the question is not, ‘Can you use AI?’ But rather, ‘Can I trust your thinking without using AI?’” https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-professors-experiment-as-ai-becomes-part-of-student-life/