New AI-driven software updates to Tyler Cowen's 'GOAT' book are reshaping the debate over the greatest economist of all time, using data analytics to challenge traditional rankings and highlight under…
Intelligence can lead to poor decisions as smart people become adept at justifying irrational choices through motivated reasoning. Psychologists find that higher cognitive ability often correlates wit…
A developer proposes a method called 'Named-Persona Adversarial Review' to overcome the blind spots of single-modal LLMs in code review. By asking the AI to review code as specific named individuals w…
A developer built a methodology for turning personal tools into open source contributions and subjected it to a novel AI-assisted review process that role-plays as 24 famous engineers, including Linus…
Daniel Kahneman discusses 'theory-induced blindness,' a cognitive bias where deeply held theories blind individuals to their flaws despite contradictory evidence. He links this to motivated reasoning …
A developer uses premortems—a technique popularized by Gary Klein—with AI coding agents Claude and Codex to surface hidden assumptions and failure modes before committing to implementation plans. The …
Agency decay—the gradual erosion of independent human thought, decision-making, and action—is occurring at the scale of entire societies as artificial intelligence systems increasingly replace human j…
Developers risk losing core engineering instincts by relying too heavily on AI coding tools, according to multiple experts. Lars Faye warns that agentic coding prevents junior developers from building…