Derek Hunt

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

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: people are becoming more “full-stack” by working beyond their core expertise - Social dynamics are changing: engineers report that they “work more with Claude than with colleagues,” - Careers are fragmenting: some double down on AI fluency, others bet on human-only skills

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/

Sep 12

✅ AI use is increasing and becoming a new mode for cheating but cheating numbers overall have been high well before Gen AI 🙊Students are sharing incidents of being incorrectly accused of using AI, leading to unexpected behaviors like using AI so it looks like they didn’t use AI (!) ❓There is stil...Read more

✅ AI use is increasing and becoming a new mode for cheating but cheating numbers overall have been high well before Gen AI 🙊Students are sharing incidents of being incorrectly accused of using AI, leading to unexpected behaviors like using AI so it looks like they didn’t use AI (!) ❓There is still a lot of confusion for students about when AI is permissible and it is varying from teacher to teacher https://www.vox.com/technology/458875/ai-cheating-data-education-panic

Sep 9

"Sycophancy" - a new term I learned today that describes one of the main things that bug me about ChatGPT / GenAI chatbots - "Sycophancy, in which chatbots agree with and excessively praise users" https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/technology/ai-chatbots-delusions-chatgpt.html "Sycophantic Improv ...Read more

"Sycophancy" - a new term I learned today that describes one of the main things that bug me about ChatGPT / GenAI chatbots - "Sycophancy, in which chatbots agree with and excessively praise users" https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/technology/ai-chatbots-delusions-chatgpt.html "Sycophantic Improv Machine ... they also use the history of a particular conversation to decide what should come next, like improvisational actors adding to a scene. The story line is building all the time”