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Who is using AI to code?

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Science paper (link) with unsurprising but specific results. The authors measured the fraction of Python functions in more than 30 million GitHub commits from 160k software developers they could detect were AI-generated. I would have added Claude Code to the diagram.

OpenClaw... 😱 Anyone shocked by the terrible example used on Clawdbot's GitHub page? Scammers on the streets of Marrakech? Spreading racist stereotypes about Morrocans?

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Winning at bullshit

The delightfully named Bullshit Benchmark (really the BS Detection Benchmark) by Peter Gostev is really worth looking at. Yet another benchmark you say? Another benchmark, yes, but one that addresses how LLM…

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When Not to Use AI as a Cognitive Escalator

There is this concept of AI-driven cognitive atrophy going around. It may happen, there is ample evidence that our ability to perform some tasks degrades when we stop performing them. But the key here is to…

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Wall Street still doesn’t understand AI

Can't argue with the title of this SEMAFOR article by Reed Albergotti. Yes, this week (or the past month) was Anthropic's DeepSeek moment on Wall Street. But this time it was felt broadly by the "software…

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Turing Test for AI Chatbots

Here is a clever experiment, and one with interesting implications for AI-human interactions. But should we be really surprised that what is essentially a sampler of (a large percentage of all English) written…

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