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You don’t need to believe in a god to get a religious exemption from using AI at work | TechCrunch
Pope Leo XIV has decried AI as a threat to human dignity, but it’s not just the devoutly faithful who might worry about how AI squares with their beliefs. David Durman, a nontheistic humanist, recently secured a religious exemption from using AI in the workplace. Go...
Cloud Rats and Software Roaches (Idle Words)
We are entering an epoch where it may become easy for small pieces of self-replicating code to permanently infest Internet-connected devices in a way that is hard to undo. Such a world would be annoying to live in and we should take steps to forestall it. Go to...
The Agentic Software Factory Hierarchy of Needs – O’Reilly
Stripe’s Minions turn engineering requests into candidate pull requests. Ramp’s Inspect puts coding agents to work in the background, with tools to check their changes. Warp Factories takes work from tickets and chat through agents, checks, and human review. Agentic...
Building a multiplayer game world with autonomous Fable-class models
Spawn is a massively multiplayer gaming environment where players can use prompts (to the in-game agent, Savi) to modify the game world. Go to Source
AI and work organisation: lessons from Moderna
In 2025, I had written several articles about Moderna’s AI-driven engagement. At the time, the business was making headlines for its adoption of ChatGPT, the number of GPTs created by its employees, and, above all, its decision to merge HR and IT under a single...
🤖 Microsoft is making room for machines – by Azeem Azhar
Why a firm with the fattest margins in its history is letting a quarter of its staff go Go to Source
The world is not enough – William Short
What embodiment can tell us about world models Go to Source
My obituary for programming « dumbmatter.com
I know, I'm late to this. I was very slow to use AI coding agents. It seems like a lot of programmers never actually liked programming and are thrilled to have a machine do it for them. But I like programming! That's the fun part! Even for programmers who like...
Salesforce and monday.com Shift AI Agent Pricing Beyond Seats
The decisive commercial battleground for enterprise agents will be control of the billing unit, not the nominal price attached to it. That is the strongest conclusion supported by the coexistence of Salesforce’s credits, actions, conversations, users and resolutions;...
The Blog Post That Set the AI World on Fire – The Atlantic
An incendiary post from a prominent researcher suggests that AI is actually more predictable than we thought. Go to Source
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