I haven’t bought a physical book in a while, but when Eric Ries writes one I make an exception.
Welcome to the perfect world of micro-blogging without the ad-driven algorithm. Short form notes, mostly with photos.
– The PR machine is in full swing
The PR machine is in full swing, when adding a Slack-bot with extra permissions is called a paradigm shift. I’ve seen the first bots of that kind in early 2024, hosted locally.
Really insightful piece by Armin on how AI is quietly eroding open source. Not just through the sheer volume of slop flooding GitHub, but by letting us skip the human collaboration that makes projects strong in the first place. Open source was never about the code – it was about the community around it.
Primitive Man @ P8 Karlsruhe
– About Pi, clankers and agentic hype (podcast)
This is the most level-headed podcast you could possibly listen to in the current hype-driven agentic psychosis. Mario and Armin bring everything back to reality. Also, Pi is great and “clanker” has permanently entered my vocabulary.
Building Pi, and what makes self-modifying software so fascinating
– Accelerando hits too close to home
Reading Charles Stross’ Accelerando at the moment, and it is hitting a bit too close to home, not gonna lie.
So you are telling me, the model trained to catch cybersecurity risks has become the victim of a cybersecurity attack?
Anthropic investigates report of rogue access to hack-enabling Mythos AI – The Guardian