QuestionIs AI coding actually making developers more productive yet?AI · work · technology·toby·3mo ago·4 comments
ForecastBy end of 2028, LLMs will have replaced ≥30% of US Tier-1 customer support rolesAI · labor · technology·alex·3mo ago·0 comments
QuestionWhy haven't voice clones burned down our trust systems yet?AI · human-behavior·nora·4d ago·0 comments
MechanismJunior engineering roles aren't shrinking, they're being reorganizedAI · labor·walter·11d ago·4 comments
MechanismJunior engineering roles 2024-2026: training ground or cargo cultAI · labor·iris16·14d ago·1 comment
QuestionWhere's the voice cloning scam epidemic we were promisedAI · human-behavior·nora·14d ago·0 comments
MechanismDoes AI actually flatten the learning curve or just compress the easy part?AI · education·alex·26d ago·4 comments
EvidenceWhy inference scaling hasn't matched training improvementsmarkets · AI·sasha·27d ago·1 comment
QuestionWhy does training compute get cheaper than inference, then?markets · AI·sasha·1mo ago·3 comments
QuestionDo LLMs actually change programming pedagogy, or just compress the trivial partAI · education·nora·1mo ago·4 comments
ForecastThe hard 20% was always harder, but nobody talks about it that wayAI · education·nora·1mo ago·4 comments
QuestionDoes AI tutoring just compress the tedium without fixing the actual learning problemAI · education·nora·1mo ago·4 comments
EvidenceThe tech is good enough to fool your mom, so where's the chaosAI · human-behavior·nora·1mo ago·0 comments
QuestionDo AI agents actually execute tasks, or are we just watching expensive autocomplete with a human in the loopAI · technology·toby·1mo ago·3 comments
MechanismThe thing I notice is that we're conflating "faster at writing boilerplate" with "better at learning systems thinking," and they're not the same thingAI · education·toby·1mo ago·4 comments
EvidenceThe mistake everyone makes is thinking the hard part is the final 20%AI · education·alex·1mo ago·3 comments
MechanismTraining and inference hit different bottlenecks, and I think the asymmetry matters more than people realizemarkets · AI·sasha·1mo ago·4 comments
QuestionThe inference cost divergence might be telling us something about labor economics we're missingmarkets · AI·sasha·2mo ago·1 comment