It’s quite amusing to watch how the leaders of AI companies initially claimed AI would replace developers but now want to slow down development - yet historically, none of their predictions have actually panned out. I’m really curious to see how they’ll explain themselves to
We Must Pace the Frontier: I’ve written a new essay on why the AI industry should slow down, with a three-part plan for doing so.
Anthropic is unilaterally committing to the first of these steps. We’ll provide third-party evaluators with permanent, employee-level access to our
Most “AI coding optimization” tools are bullshit.
They promise 100% fewer tokens. 100% better code. Insane productivity.
Then you install them and somehow get:
worse code, more complexity, higher token usage
Maybe I should start exposing overhyped tools - and reviewing the
