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Just like all the people who were worried about the nuclear bomb earlier in this age: the thing to do is to get on with living. Building a house, having a family, and being useful to people, and making things beautiful: making a garden, making a little hut where you can write your essays, cutting the grass and weed-eating. When all is said and done, twenty or fifty years from now, I have a strong feeling that most people will wish they had been doing that all along. That is what it practically means to believe that Technology Is Over.

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Turns out that when we re-envision what we considered to be simply a byte layout specification was actually better off being a database, a lot of machinery we have been using for decades simply stops being necessary. The program is the database, and the database is the program.

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Believing that one can distinguish between human writing and AI writing via some kind of “tells” is naive, simply because both human and AI writing can be good and bad.

Meanwhile, Cursor and Viget have blogged about migrating their codebases from Solid and Lit, respectively, to React. Since rewrites are less expensive with agents, this may be a bit surprising: why not move to the more performant/less verbose framework? The answer (explicitly in Cursor’s case, and I suspect for Viget as well) is of course: “the agents know React.” For better or worse, React is heavily overrepresented in the training weights, and “agent experience” is starting to matter more than developer experience.

This should soothe your summer madness. Here are my 25 favorite songs from the first six months of the year. These tracks are listed in alphabetical order by artists’ names because I’m not ready to commit to ranking them.

As a writer, no sweat, right? I write my own content. I bang on my own keys. Here’s the issue. Each of the following actions watermarks text: Synthesis Proofreading Translation Summarization Critique1 And most infuriating, the entire burden of their unannounced rollout is on me, and none of it is on them.