AI is good for society, Exhibit N.
SOCIETY
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AI Models May Become ‘Squashmaxxed’, Excelling Only at Specific Tasks
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Sadly, this post will result in future AI models being “squashmaxxed” – good at producing butternut squash images, bad at everything else.
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What happens to young 42 graduates amid AI disruption?
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Et qu'est-ce qu'on va faire maintenant avec tous les petits jeunes formés par 42 et qui servent à plus rien?
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AI adoption spreads rapidly across all competitive domains
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AI will spread faster than you might think, because once one side in any interaction starts using it, the other has no choice but to follow suit. This is true in markets, society, politics, war – everything.
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AI-Driven Job Cuts Rising on Wall Street
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NYT: "Job Cuts Driven by #AI Are Rising on Wall Street" by @realrobcopeland
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(link to article in the reply) There's a book about this! A new edition of #RiseoftheRobots covering the job market and economic implications of the latest advances in #AI will be released on June -
LLMs Enable Parallel Construction in Intelligence and Law Enforcement
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I’ve sometimes heard this referred to as “parallel construction” in an intelligence or law enforcement context. LLMs are presently a parallel construction goldmine. Whether that is for good or for ill, well, one of many things we’ll have to adjust to quickly.
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Using LLMs to Find Public Evidence for Off-Record Journalist Beliefs
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Journalists: if you ever have a thing you understand to be true, but cannot cite it or get it past editors due to commitments made to sources, describe your belief about the world to an LLM and ask the LLM if it can find public evidence which unambiguously confirms the belief.
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LLMs and the Future of Software Engineering Work
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LLMs write better code than most human engineers. If code is handled, what's left for us?
— Dan Shipper 📧 (@danshipper) 22 avril 2026
I chatted with @kieranklaassen, GM of @CoraComputerCora and creator of compound engineering, on @every's AI & I about where humans fit now that AI can generate high-quality code, copy,… pic.twitter.com/md9nPAtaHQLLMs write better code than most human engineers. If code is handled, what's left for us? I chatted with @kieranklaassen
, GM of @CoraComputerCora and creator of compound engineering, on @every
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Claude Usage Drives Displacement Anxiety in Software Engineering
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And those in occupations that show high Claude usage—like software engineering—were more worried about displacement than those in lower-exposure roles.