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Two Bets on Standing Still, and a Dark Horse
Taalas etched the weights into transistors. Groq kept them loadable. Both bets assume a model writes one token at a time.
Enjoy the Bubble While It Lasts: The Secret Behind Your AI Bill
Somebody else is paying for your AI subscription. Not most of it. Almost all of it.
Possibly the Second-Worst Online Banking Outage in History
One zone in one London datacentre lost power. A bank with 66 million customers went dark - cards, transfers, logins, everything, everywhere its customers stood.
Are We Born Too Early to Be Real?
If humanity lasts as long as the Earth stays livable, the odds of being born this early are 1 in 100,000.
Proof of Red
GTA 5 has no API for a traffic light's color. This mod convicts red-light runners anyway.
GitHub Actions Is Having One of the Worst Days in Its History
GitHub Actions has been in major outage for six hours and counting. Only one day in its history was worse, and that record is about two hours away.
Are We Using AI at the Wrong Scale?
You don't use a chainsaw to slice bread.
Should Hand-Written Code Be Considered Craft Now?
Once AI writes most of the code, writing it by hand stops being the default and starts being a choice. That shift is what turns it into craft.