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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 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
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
Michael Bloch argues that AI doesn't kill software demand — it demolishes the supply-side moat. When building is cheap, the barrier was never the product. It was the construction delay.
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
A San Francisco founder describes restructuring his life around AI agents. This commentary separates productive AI fluency from compulsive output anxiety.
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 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 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 12, 2026
Two viral AI career posts went around this week — one sounding the alarm, one offering hope. Both are worth reading. Neither gives you what you actually need: a framework for your specific situation.
February 11, 2026
AI made code generation cheap, but planning, review, and coordination still set delivery speed. This commentary shows where the bottleneck moved and why teams should optimize for faster real feedback, not just faster output.
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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