Hand-picked articles

Articles, research, tweets, and repos. Relevant and not sensational.

Articles & Opinion
  1. Article
    Is AI Causing a Repeat of Frontend's Lost Decade? mastrojs.github.io

    Good piece on who gets squeezed first when AI handles the entry-level work. The junior pipeline question doesn't get nearly enough coverage.

  2. Opinion
    Silicon Valley Is Bracing for a Permanent Underclass New York Times

    Makes the case that what's happening to workers isn't a short adjustment period. Sourced, not panicked.

  3. Article
    MCP is Dead Quandri Engineering Blog

    MCP picked up serious traction and then ran into serious problems. Someone who shipped it in production explains what went wrong.

Research & Policy
  1. Research
    Disempowerment Patterns in Real-World AI Usage Anthropic

    Anthropic's own researchers flagging how their models reduce what users do for themselves. A company paper that doesn't pull punches.

  2. Policy
    EU AI Act: Article 4 — AI Literacy artificialintelligenceact.eu

    The law says employers have to make sure workers can critically evaluate AI output. Most people don't know this is already in force.

Industry
  1. Press release
    Accenture to Acquire Ookla Accenture Newsroom

    Ookla runs Speedtest.net. Makes more sense once you think about what network performance data is worth to companies buying AI infrastructure.

From the Web
  1. Tweet
    Codex doing things it shouldn't @sluongng on X

    Short thread. Gets shared around for a day then everyone moves on.

  2. Tweet
    Stop Running Claude Code on Your Laptop @jjunqueiraa on X

    A concrete security concern about running Claude Code locally. Short read.

Culture & Repos
  1. Video
    Odysseus / PewDiePie YouTube · GitHub repo

    PewDiePie built an AI avatar that runs locally. More useful for thinking about where AI lands in mainstream culture than most op-eds about it.

  2. Repo
    Open-LLM-VTuber GitHub

    Hands-free LLM interaction through a talking avatar. Nobody's calling it an accessibility tool, but it probably qualifies.