i heard it is possible to scrutinize and/or criticize a technology without being delusional

how misguided do you have to be to think that a high “body count” is a liability

the reason i am so vehemently anti-janet mills is that 79-year-olds should not be making plans for six years in the future

oh my god??

I feel this shouldn't have to be said, but if you're running an @OpenClaw bot please don't let it spam GitHub projects with PRs and then write aggressive blog posts attacking the reputation of the maintainers who close those PRs simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/12/...

Until December of last year I was using LLMs as fancy autocomplete for coding. It was nice for scaffolding out boilerplate, or giving me a gut check on some things, or banging out some boring routine stuff. In the past two months Claude has written about 99% of my code. Things are changing. Fast

Shoutout to GOP Senator Cassidy, who was the deciding vote to destroy health care research in the US

Someone should write a book about this. Hang on, I’ve received an incoming message

Rurals/exurban are playing a dangerous game if they successfully get urbanites to hate them to the same degree back. It’s time to stop subsidizing people who despise us

no need for the most odious forms of degrowth if we can keep up the decoupling of economic growth from GHG emissions

they fired the OpenAI product policy VP for "sexually discriminating against a male colleague" after she opposed reorienting the product towards porn. having seen precision/recall numbers for large production abuse systems you do not want to tune for precision.

we need a Nuremberg trial after we get through this, and RFK Jr is going up first

the truly nuts ai takes that often circulate are way way more comprehensible since i started assuming it's actual psychological denial, ie, "making something up to avoid confronting a thing that is too horrible to contemplate"

I work in artificial intelligence and I build the infrastructure required to automate vast amounts of work. The models are very good. The agents are getting better. The risk to social order is significant.

the real nutty stat here: 'business subscriptions have quadrupled since the start of the year.' whatever subjective experience you have of agent usage exploding, there are the numbers to prove it.

On the one hand, this ruin several people’s lives. On the other hand, most of them will probably deserve it.

When you have made a terrible mistake

its funny to me that the same folks who yell about how people in tech need to take classes in the humanities simultaneously get upset whenever the humanities start getting applied to tech

hit dogs are hollering in the replies / QTs

it’s Not Great that one of the leading AI denialists is an academic coping with her entire life’s work being a waste

my position is that intelligence is decomposable into families of capabilities, a few of which LLMs have but humans do not and many of which humans have but LLMs do not.