Frontier lab money is being showered theough proxy funds all over Europe to create new think tanks with young researchers carrying exhalted titles and self styling as “AI experts”, pushing this ridiculous “Middle Powers” narrative. This is in fact just vassalage with better branding. No, just no.

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Short time-lapse of part of this morning’s first pass of ICEYE-X36 (59103) and COSMOS 2612 (68762) over South America under partly cloudy skies.

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My thoughts on the current state of AI driven software development, why I'm no longer concerned about a runaway intelligence explosion, and what I think is a far worse outcome we could be walking into maevyn.codes/decoherence

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Great metaphor for software development on large mature systems, with or without AI.

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We can keep plugging AI into tools built for humans, and be surprised when we hit the wall. Or reinvent everything for the agentic era, keeping humans where they are irreplaceable: understanding the business, deciding what to build, and framing what “done” means. That last part is pure engineering.

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