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My 9 year old is similar: He wanted to learn to code a Roblox game. It gave 3 modes for the tutorial - do it yourself, copy-paste some examples or use AI. He rejected AI because he…

You get the sense that Keir Starmer has found something that the silent majority really want to support him on. We'll see what it does to his approval ratings ahead of any leadersh…

Next time we see something obviously AI-written we should ask for the prompt instead of the finished artifact. At least this way you'll know what the person was really thinking.

"Explain X like I'm 5" (or 10 or whatever) is a killer use case for AI tools.

One one level it's real to say that these are the official numbers cited by different countries. But it's not meaningful. The numbers are not counting the same thing. e.g. in the U…

> International data on ‘online comments’ arrests not comparable E.g. in the UK a hoax emergency services call counts within these stats. https://pa.media/blogs/fact-check/fact-che…

Couple of other anecdotal data points: 1. Guy I know who is an exec coach says that a chatbot can do a lot of what he does. 2. I am absolutely seeing lots of people asking ChatGPT …

DHH on the Pragmatic Engineer podcast gets right to the nub of what it feels like coding with agents in the Spring of 2026. > I didn't want to be a project manager for agents > Run…

I had been using ChatGPT for help with some coding stuff - sometimes it worked reasonably well but for anything tricky it just failed. But then recently I asked Claude Code to upgr…