Pluralistic: The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI (05 Dec 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Read this and then send it to everybody you know
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I'm not entirely sure what this *is*, but it looks nice and involves smart people, so..?
Amp
Amp Code has split out from Sourcegraph — seems like a good plan. Love seeing Tim Lucas's excellent design influence.
A pragmatic guide to LLM evals for devs
Everybody wants to know how to make the robots work for them
Artists rejoice as Labor rules out copyright carve-out for AI
Measured AI | Note to Self
It’s great to see Gina Trapani blogging again, she’s so sensible.
‘I’m suddenly so angry!’ My strange, unnerving week with an AI ‘friend’
This article is totally correct and also I wonder how it will read 5 years from now.
Vibe Kanban - Orchestrate AI Coding Agents
Apparently this can run multiple agents in parallel in separate git worktrees which is very useful.
Paper page - AutoPR: Let's Automate Your Academic Promotion!
Via the very good aboard.com newsletter
What I've learned about writing AI apps so far | Seldo.com
Simple and uncontroversial advice
Without data centers, GDP growth was 0.1% in the first half of 2025, Harvard economist says | Fortune
“Furman’s analysis adds to the snarky and accurate observation by Rusty Foster of Today in Tabs who quipped: “Our economy might just be three AI data centers in a trench coat”—an allusion to the data-center buildout boom and to the cartoon trope/sight gag of several young boys teaming up to disguise themselves as an adult.”
Not Boring: The Electric Slide
A _very_ long essay on the history of electrification told through fundamental breakthroughs and how they were industrialized at scale, and what that means for our current moment as well as the future of AI, electronics, and the environment. Thoroughly recommend spending the time to read.