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Follow the Fear

Published by Trotzendorff

Some­times, life scares me. The deci­sions I can make, or have to make. Not the ones where the risk is rea­son­ably easy to cal­cu­late. What will this cost me? How much time will it take? What hap­pens if it goes wrong, and can I deal with the fall­out? Those aren’t the deci­sions I mean. I mean the ones where get­ting it wrong could have seri­ous con­se­quences. The ones that could put rela­tion­ships at risk, or destroy them. That could affect my health for years to come. The ones I might look back on years lat­er and realise that this deci­sion got in the way of liv­ing a ful­filled life. Those are the deci­sions that scare me.

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Why AI Keeps »Forgetting« Your Work—and How to Deal With It

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Gone. Just gone. Two weeks of work. Gone to waste? Two min­utes ear­li­er I had been per­fect­ly hap­py. The new fea­ture worked on the first try. Exact­ly the way I’d described it. I clicked through the appli­ca­tion one more time, just out of habit, and sud­den­ly stopped. Two fea­tures that had been work­ing flaw­less­ly for weeks were gone. Not bro­ken. Just gone.

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Algorithmic Monocultures: AI’s Overlooked Diversity Problem

Published by Trotzendorff

Until recent­ly, com­pa­nies at least had to make the same mis­takes inde­pen­dent­ly. One orga­ni­za­tion might over­val­ue pres­ti­gious uni­ver­si­ties. Anoth­er might mis­take con­fi­dence for com­pe­tence. A third might qui­et­ly screen out uncon­ven­tion­al careers. Their judg­ments were often flawed. But they were flawed in dif­fer­ent ways.

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The Most Dangerous Thing About AI Might Be How Much Effort It Still Feels Like

Published by Trotzendorff

The first time I spent an entire after­noon work­ing with AI, I closed my lap­top with that strange­ly sat­is­fy­ing feel­ing of hav­ing done hard intel­lec­tu­al work. My brain felt cooked. I had com­pared mod­els, refined prompts, rewrit­ten out­puts, test­ed work­flows, chased bet­ter phras­ing, dis­card­ed entire approach­es. It felt intense. Dense. Productive.

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