Pluralistic: Goodhart's Law (of AI) (11 Aug 2025)

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Goodhart's Law (of AI): When a metric becomes a target, AI can hit it every time.
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Pluralistic: Which jobs can be replaced with AI? (06 Aug 2025)

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Which jobs can be replaced with AI?: Jobs that have already be degraded to the point of uselessness.
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Pluralistic: Bragging about replacing coders with AI is a sales-pitch (05 Aug 2025)

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Bragging about replacing coders with AI is a sales-pitch: The reality is more complex.
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Pluralistic: AI software assistants make the hardest kinds of bugs to spot (04 Aug 2025)

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AI software assistants make the hardest kinds of bugs to spot: Errors that are tuned to be statistically indistinguishable from correct code.
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Pluralistic: Trump's not gonna protect workers from forced labor (03 Jul 2025)

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Trump's not gonna protect workers from forced labor: But states hate noncompete "agreements."
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Pluralistic: Farewell (for the moment) (30 May 2025)

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Farewell (for the moment): See you in mid-June!
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Pluralistic: AI turns Amazon coders into Amazon warehouse workers (27 May 2025)

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AI turns Amazon coders into Amazon warehouse workers: A reverse-centaur in the loop.
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Pluralistic: The enshittification of tech jobs (27 Apr 2025)

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The enshittification of tech jobs: Our last line of defense has fallen.
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Pluralistic: #RedForEd rides again in LA (29 Mar 2025)

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#RedForEd rides again in LA: Rest in power, Jane McAlevey.
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Pluralistic: The future of Amazon coders is the present of Amazon warehouse workers (13 Mar 2025)

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The future of Amazon coders is the present of Amazon warehouse workers: It's here, it's just not evenly distributed.
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