2026.03.15
Is this guy trying to be a comic book villain?
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I was really bummed to see journalist Benj Edwards got in trouble with AI fabricating quotes (he claims he was loopy with COVID and mistook paraphrases from one tool for actual quotes from another.)
I really enjoyed his previous work on computer history and retrogames - his occasional appearance on the podcast Retronauts, and I even bought a arcade stick for the Atari 2600 he was making as a side hustle.
Plus, this piece on 10 things I learned from burning myself out with AI coding agents was right on - from the sheer fun of it, to the challenges when an AI reaches the end of its competency and familiarity...
simply moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but world's champions.