Writer Robin Sloan published an update to his February 2020 "apps as home-cooked meals" post arguing that building personal software with AI agents still counts as "home cooking," and recommending a o…
Elicit co-founder Jungwon Byun discussed on the Dream Machines podcast how her company builds AI tools for scientific research, emphasizing reliable citations and evidence to counter hallucinations. B…
Stanford economist Erik Brynjolfsson said on the Dream Machines podcast that AI's tendency to work better at larger scales could lead to a 'winner take most' outcome, as companies raise hundreds of bi…
In the first episode of KQED's Dream Machines podcast, hosts Alexis Madrigal and Robin Sloan interview author Annalee Newitz about San Francisco's recurring tech booms, the anthropomorphization of AI …
Frontier AI companies DeepMind, OpenAI, and Anthropic have outgrown the 'lab' label and should be called companies, argues Robin Sloan in a blog post. Sloan notes that while the term evokes Bell Labs …
Software engineer Alex Waxman built a suite of personalized apps for himself and his family, including a sleep app, fitness app, marathon planner, and jazz quiz, using a stack of Next.js, Vercel, Tail…
Tom MacWright argues that AI-generated resumes, portfolios, and outreach emails strip away the human connection and personal character that hiring managers and collaborators rely on. Drawing on 12 yea…
Robin Sloan argues that language models are fundamentally different from brains and that scaling laws alone may not lead to superintelligence, suggesting that smaller, more efficient models could achi…
Vicki Boykis added tags to her static blog using BERTopic and LLMs including Claude Code and Deepseek, completing the project in 6-10 hours. She argues that LLMs excel at compression tasks like topic …