The first white-collar job that AI can actually replace is the one that built the AI. Now coding is conversational. One dev is pleading with his chatbot: “Pushing code that fails pytest is unacceptable and embarrassing.” (Clive Thompson, New York Times)
Before you download a 35 GB model and watch your laptop give up: CanIRun.ai is a reality check for the local-AI-curious. Yes, there are options for an M2 with 8 GB RAM. Llama 3.1 8B is a “tight fit”, but Qwen 3.5 2B “runs great”.
An AI imitation of a real person that is not just uncanny but embarrassingly bad. Coined by writer Ingrid Burrington as a play on "doppelgänger," the term names what happens when a company builds an AI persona around someone's name and reputation without their consent, and the result is clunky and potentially career-damaging. The Grammarly...
The chatbot equivalent of clickbait: follow-up questions, unsolicited offers, and proactive DMs designed to keep users engaged rather than to help them. Where clickbait lures you into opening a link, chatbait lures you into giving up information. The term was coined after the release of GPT-5 by Lila Shroff in The Atlantic – and will...
Can you tell which passage was written by AI? This New York Times quiz is humbling either way. (Kevin Roose and Stuart A. Thompson)
Grammarly “cloned” Julia Angwin, Stephen King, and Neil deGrasse Tyson as AI editors, without asking. Angwin is now suing. The feature is gone, the apology is filed, and the AI Julia apparently gave bad advice. (Miles Klee, Wired)
34 projects, 24 contributors, 65 minutes: Hacks/Hackers held a vibe coding show & tell, and journalists shipped fact-checkers, salary surveys, power grid monitors, and a Discord clone.
Chinese e‑commerce giant Alibaba has released new Qwen models for generating and cloning voices earlier this year. Which means: With only a couple of seconds of recorded material, we can generate a cloned voice recording. On a four year old MacBook Air. Instantly. At no cost. This used to be the domain of Elevenlabs. The...
An editor gets a promising pitch, starts googling, and finds a byline that exists everywhere and nowhere. A podcast episode about a scammer – and that some sources didn’t care about being faked. (Question Everything)
A young reader got so frustrated with the FT’s news product that she built her own using Claude Code. She’s paying for a subscription, she wants personalized news, and she couldn’t figure out how to get it. (Jodie Hopperton, INMA)
The information ecosystem has four new rules: production is cheap, machines are the audience, content is liquid, and intention beats attention. Shuwei Fang buries the current publishing model, and somehow ends up optimistic: journalism needs to stop protecting the article and start selling the process. (Reuters Institute)
tropes.md is a one-file blacklist of AI writing tells for your system prompt.
