I remember my mother buying me "Accidental Empires" from a bargain bin at the local bookstore as a tween. I must have read it multiple times. Dot product that with "The Cuckoo's Egg" and any technical books and magazines I could get hold of, and you have the formative reading of my career.
Due to all the constraints the ZX Spectrum is a fantastic system for recreational programming; too bad I missed the latest Spectrum Next batch last year.
Finally a path to regulatory capture while not having to put in rigorous engineering work, ever going faster; with bonus points for "cyberpunk" headlines... what's not to love?
These days it's best to just go to the top for least distortion - Jensen Huang dropping the simple truths:
"It is the responsibility of the AI companies to develop the technology safely and to properly test it. There were incidents, and those incidents, thankfully did no harm. But those incidents are a reminder that as we move from labs to product development, the companies have to become much more rigorous in testing and securing and making sure that the products are ready for use before it's released. And if it's not ready, just hold it back. You should go as fast as you can, but no faster than that. At the moment, the incidents are related to products not ready to be released."
Peace through global interdependence wasn't a bad side effect at all. The analogy only holds so much, but I'd wholly agree that any profound deterioration of skills across the board would create dependencies on AI infra that are on a whole new level.
At the very latest, when "AGI robots" will be commonplace and taking on the most crucial labour on our behalf.
FWIW by this point, many of us are in deep symbiosis.
Useful or not, another Amiga / Unix fan probably had fun and some learnings too.
At the very least, the real-world impact is that tokens have been spent, the outputs open sourced.
It would be nice to hear their voice survive the loops of agentic abstraction of course but I don't know if that is even possible at that higha level.
Maybe it's that, maybe it's "just another issue of alignment"? Potentially serious in aggregate and over time..
I personally don't mind the imo little "neuralese" (is that what we call it now?) here specifically. In any case it's good for you that you can (still?) tell?
Why not applaud the playground time/energy/token budget directed? Especially as a decades long NetBSD (and Amiga:) fan I do appreciate multitudes; maybe here not exactly the case in tone of writing but in relatively cheap, fun experiments / projects during the agentic take-off of 2026. The whole
trend reminds me a bit of remix/DJ culture; the "producing DJ"?
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