Software Engineering as a profession will continue to fundamentally change in 2026. Humans will need to learn to co-adapt to this evolving “alien technology” which comes with no real manual, and figure out how to operate it. What a time to be alive
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Continuous Learning: The Only Sustainable Competitive Advantage
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Continuous learning is the only defensible moat.
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AI as a Humbling Force: Moving Beyond Human Exceptionalism
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The Copernican revolution taught us that we are not the center of the physical universe. AI is teaching us that we're not the only thinking beings. Can AI make us less arrogant and self-centered? One can hope.
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Know Yourself Before Tech Suggestions: Personal Alignment Matters
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It will be easy to give random suggestions especially around tech but I think it's crucial this person first understands who they are as a person, their likes and dislikes, their strengths and even their current realities to know what it's important to them right now.
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Data on AI’s environmental and energy consumption impact
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Guide de survie IA du repas de Noël : – Les datacenters représentent environ 1,5% de la consommation électrique mondiale (dont 15% pour l'IA, donc l'IA représente 0,22% de l'électricité mondiale) et 0,5% de l'impact carbone de la planète. – Une requête à un modèle d'IA, c'est
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AI Data Transparency Crisis in Life Sciences Research
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The Pistoia Alliance’s recent poll highlights a “scientific content crisis” in the life sciences, with 27% of professionals unaware of the data sources their AI models use, thereby affecting AI’s reliability. https://
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AI haters may get laws written by AI themselves
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When the AI haters get laws written to regulate AI it probably will be an AI that writes them. Irony of all ironies. At @hf0 in San Francisco I saw a company that does exactly that, and already has been used to write a bill. For our free newsletter this week, we cover
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Scobleizer talks audio spaces, brain interfaces, and LLM theft
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Audio spaces are where I bring a lot more of that stuff out. For instance, brain computer interfaces bring significant new problems that we have discussed a lot, since those are in the offing. But yeah, all the LLMs stole my work to be built without compensating me for slurping
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Papers Rejected for Legal Code Instead of Greek Pseudocode
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Would papers get rejected if they used legal code with variable names instead of Greek laden pseudo code?