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February 14, 2026
David Ondrej's viral post about SWE-rebench gets the headline right and most of the nuance wrong. Here's what the benchmark data actually shows.
February 14, 2026
When AI removes all friction, what atrophies isn't access or employment — it's desire itself. Commentary on @fede_intern's essay on post-scarcity psychology.
February 14, 2026
AI infrastructure as a relay race of sequential bottlenecks is a useful framing. The investment thesis bolted onto it is not.
February 14, 2026
Eric Markowitz argues that AI anxiety is really about decades of financialisation and hollowed-out work. He's right about the diagnosis — but personal virtue can't fix structural problems.
February 13, 2026
Alex Wissner-Gross's AI digest arranges real facts at maximum extrapolation. The actual news this week is more interesting and more useful than the Singularity version.
February 13, 2026
Sandeep's viral post calling AI hype a coordinated psy-op makes real points about commercial incentives — then undermines them with the same all-caps certainty it criticises. Counter-hype is still hype.
February 12, 2026
Viral AI narratives are getting a lot right about the pace of capability improvement, but they get a lot wrong about the pace of economic disruption. A measured look at what the viral panic gets right and wrong.
February 11, 2026
AI progress is real, but that does not make every singularity-era valuation thesis rational. This commentary dissects unfalsifiable market claims and shows why technology truth and asset-pricing discipline are separate decisions.
February 11, 2026
Enterprise finance is still held together by manual exception handling between supposedly integrated systems. This commentary backs the glue-work diagnosis while pressure-testing vendor claims, evidence quality, and maintenance risk.
February 11, 2026
OpenClaw success stories promise easy revenue but lean on unattributed numbers and selective winners. This commentary unpacks the survivorship bias, security contradictions, and viral distribution mechanics behind the pitch.
February 11, 2026
AI is reducing software scarcity and redirecting value toward infrastructure, energy, and other hard constraints. This commentary supports that core shift while challenging cleaner bits-to-atoms narratives and timeline certainty.
February 11, 2026
Most professionals are behind on recent AI capability gains, and that gap matters. This piece critiques alarm-first takeoff storytelling and explains why useful communication should build competence, not anxiety.
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