Automation and Skill Retention: Anthropic recently published research examining how AI use impacts skill development and efficiency: In a randomized controlled trial, we examined 1) how quickly software developers picked up a new skill (in this case, a Python library) with and without AI assistance; and 2) whether using AI made …

The Internet is an Entertainment Machine: Charlie Warzel and Mike Caulfield argue that the internet is a justification machine. Dan Williams responds that justifications have always been readily available, and thinks that Warzel and Caulfield romanticize past media environments, for their own self-justificatory purposes.1 I think Williams …