Ethan's AI Reading List

AI is incredibly consequential for our society. Here's what I read to help me think about it.

In no particular order:


alexia's space: AI Contribution Policy

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Date Added: June 19, 2026


I hate compilers

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Published: 2026-06-18

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Software engineers are not (and should not be) technicians

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Date Added: June 18, 2026


Peopleless economy? Terrifyingly enough, not technically impossible

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Date Added: June 15, 2026


The AI Curse — Dan's Musings

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Date Added: June 12, 2026


AI Agent Bankrupted Their Operator While Trying to Scan DN42

By Lan Tian

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Date Added: June 12, 2026


our workplace LLM mass delusion

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Published: 2026-06-10

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To Gen or Not To Gen: The Ethical Use of Generative AI

By Johannes Link

Published: 2025-11-04T00:00:00+01:00

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Date Added: June 10, 2026


Dario Amodei — Policy on the AI Exponential

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Date Added: June 10, 2026


The Jqwik Anti-AI Affair

By Johannes Link

Published: 2026-06-09T00:00:00+02:00

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Date Added: June 10, 2026


How building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight

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Published: 2026-06-10

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CEOs Who Think AI Replaces Their Employees Are Just Bad CEOs

By Mike Masnick

Published: 2026-06-09T18:11:28+00:00

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Date Added: June 9, 2026


Cleaning up after AI rockstar developers - Jesse Skinner

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Date Added: June 9, 2026


The User Doesn't Care - But you should

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Date Added: June 8, 2026


To my students

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How LLMs work | Hacker News

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Date Added: June 6, 2026


</> htmx ~ Code is Cheap(er)

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Date Added: June 5, 2026


When AI builds itself

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Thank Goodness Universal Basic Income Saved the AI Economy

By Tyler Langlois

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Date Added: June 5, 2026


AI must foster &apos;maternal instincts&apos; or we risk extinction, warns Geoffrey Hinton

By Nicola Luksic

Published: 2026-02-18

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Date Added: June 5, 2026


Folklore.org: -2000 Lines Of Code

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Cloudflare CEO is Lying to You About the Bot Traffic Jump | flyingpenguin

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Date Added: June 5, 2026


Changing How We Develop Ladybird - Ladybird

By Andreas Kling

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Date Added: June 5, 2026


A Grand Unified Theory of the AI Hype Cycle

By Glyph Lefkowitz

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Date Added: June 5, 2026


Contributor Poker and Zig's AI Ban

By Loris Cro

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My Software North Star

By Loris Cro

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AI enthusiasts are in a race against time, AI skeptics are in a race against entropy

By Charity Majors

Published: 2026-06-02

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Date Added: June 4, 2026


Hauleth's blog - Reviewing code requires reading

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Published: 2026-06-04

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Remembering Dotcom, Pondering LLMs | datagubbe.se

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Max Leiter

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If Data Centers Are So Great, Why Are They Being Built in Secret?

By Erin Brockovich

Published: 2026-04-28

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What’s in the water? What we know and don’t know about data center water discharge in Virginia • Virginia Mercury

By Shannon Heckt

Published: 2026-06-01T09:20:29+00:00

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Date Added: June 3, 2026


Virginia journalist: Fired by AI

By Rich Tucker

Published: 2026-06-03T08:00:00+00:00

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Date Added: June 3, 2026


rsync and outrage

By Andrew Tridgell

Published: 2026-06-03T03:09:40.126Z

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AI Doesn't Have ROI

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Published: 2026-06-02T14:04:43.000Z

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How To Argue With Me About AI, If You Must

By Glyph Lefkowitz

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I Think I’m Done Thinking About genAI For Now

By Glyph Lefkowitz

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Friction and not being touched

By tante

Published: 2025-07-30T08:22:16+00:00

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Date Added: June 2, 2026


Embrace friction

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Published: 2025-12-08

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Do I belong in tech anymore?

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Published: 2026-04-24

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Quality in the Age of Slop

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Let the agents democratize open source

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githubbad.html

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You can just say it

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Published: 2026-05-28T00:00:00+00:00

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Date Added: May 29, 2026


The Education of a Libertarian

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I Am Retiring from Tech to Live Offline

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The Dead Economy Theory

By Owen McGrann

Published: 2026-05-16

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The real AI

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Date Added: May 29, 2026


The AI Bubble

By No One's Happy

Published: 2026-05-20T18:00:00.000Z

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Date Added: May 29, 2026


What if you don't need MCP at all?

By Mario Zechner

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Date Added: May 26, 2026


Pope Leo Warns of Risks From A.I. in 42,300-Word Encyclical

By Motoko Rich, Elisabetta Povoledo, and Elizabeth Dias

Published: 2026-05-25

Tags: #Artificial Intelligence #Encyclicals #Leo XIII #Leo XIV #Popes #Roman Catholic Church #internal-open-access-from-nl

Date Added: May 25, 2026


As A.I. Fever Rises in Silicon Valley, Pope Leo Has a Few Words

By David Streitfeld

Published: 2026-05-25

Tags: #Anthropic AI LLC #Artificial Intelligence #Computers and the Internet #Francis #Google Inc #Innovation #Jesus Christ #Leo XIV #Musk, Elon #OpenAI Labs #Popes #Religion and Belief #Roman Catholic Church #Thiel, Peter A

Date Added: May 25, 2026


The price of humans

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Apple Silicon costs more than OpenRouter

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Was my $48K GPU server worth it?

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Multi-Agents: What's Actually Working | Cognition

By Walden Yan

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Don’t Build Multi-Agents | Cognition

By Walden Yan

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Date Added: May 21, 2026


The Zig project's rationale for their firm anti-AI contribution policy

By Simon Willison

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Date Added: May 16, 2026


AI isn’t coming for your job. It’s coming for your mind

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The Sigmoids Won't Save You

By Scott Alexander

Published: 2026-01-16

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The bottleneck was never the code

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A Theory of Deep Learning

By Elon Litman

Published: 2026-05-04T17:17:00.000000

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A Theory of Generalization in Deep Learning

By Elon Litman, and Gabe Guo

Published: 2026-05-02

Tags: #Computer Science - Machine Learning #Statistics - Machine Learning

Date Added: May 15, 2026


NV-Embed: Improved Techniques for Training LLMs as Generalist Embedding Models

By Chankyu Lee, Rajarshi Roy, Mengyao Xu, Jonathan Raiman, Mohammad Shoeybi, Bryan Catanzaro, and Wei Ping

Published: 2025-02-25

Tags: #Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence #Computer Science - Computation and Language #Computer Science - Information Retrieval #Computer Science - Machine Learning

Date Added: May 15, 2026


Beyond Single Embeddings: Capturing Diverse Targets with Multi-Query Retrieval

By Hung-Ting Chen, Xiang Liu, Shauli Ravfogel, and Eunsol Choi

Published: 2025-11-04

Tags: #Computer Science - Computation and Language #Computer Science - Information Retrieval

Date Added: May 15, 2026


Multi-Aspect Dense Retrieval

By Weize Kong, Swaraj Khadanga, Cheng Li, Shaleen Kumar Gupta, Mingyang Zhang, Wensong Xu, and Michael Bendersky

Published: 2022-08-14

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Learning Word Vectors for 157 Languages

By Edouard Grave, Piotr Bojanowski, Prakhar Gupta, Armand Joulin, and Tomas Mikolov

Published: 2018-03-28

Tags: #Computer Science - Computation and Language #Computer Science - Machine Learning

Date Added: May 15, 2026


the 90 day disclosure policy is dead

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Learning Software Architecture

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Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise

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Published: 2026-05-12

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Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career

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AI Slop is Killing Online Communities

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James Shore: You Need AI That Reduces Maintenance Costs

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Task Paralysis & AI | g5t.de

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The fall of the theorem economy

By David Bessis

Published: 2026-04-21

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Local AI Needs to be the Norm

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The People vs. AI

By Andrew R. Chow

Published: 2026-02-19T12:00:00.000Z

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Programming Still Sucks. — Writing

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Published: 2026-04-19T11:56:09+00:00

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Why I'm against the use of generative AI altogether

By Andrea Bartz

Published: 2026-04-10

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Agentic Coding is a Trap | Lars Faye

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What will be scarce?

By Alex Imas

Published: 2026-04-14

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Opinion | It’s the Age of Electricity and America Isn’t Ready

By Robinson Meyer

Published: 2026-04-27

Tags: #Artificial Intelligence #Data Centers #Electric Light Bulbs #Electric Light and Power #Electric and Hybrid Vehicles #Energy Efficiency #Federal-State Relations (US) #Infrastructure (Public Works) #Natural Gas #Prices (Fares, Fees and Rates) #Solar Energy #United States Economy #United States Politics and Government #Wind Power

Date Added: May 3, 2026


Opinion | It’s the End of the Internet as We Know It

By Raffi Krikorian

Published: 2026-04-15

Tags: #Anthropic AI LLC #Artificial Intelligence #Computer Security #Computers and the Internet #Cyberattacks and Hackers #Cyberwarfare and Defense #Security and Warning Systems #Software

Date Added: May 3, 2026


Guillotine: Hypervisors for Isolating Malicious AIs

By James Mickens, Sarah Radway, and Ravi Netravali

Published: June 6, 2025

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Date Added: April 28, 2026


The Bitter Lesson

By Rich Sutton

Published: March 13, 2019

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Human skills will matter more than ever in the age of AI | McKinsey

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Eternal November — this new influx of users may be better than the last one

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The coming AI personal security nightmare

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Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference

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The Last Question

By Isaac Asimov

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Date Added: April 17, 2026


AI Code is Hollowing Out Open Source, and Maintainers are Looking the Other Way

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Published: 2026-04-08T06:41:00+00:00

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Date Added: April 17, 2026


AI’s Unpaid Debt: How LLM Scrapers Destroy the Social Contract of Open Source

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Date Added: April 17, 2026


The Future of Everything is Lies, I Guess

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Anthropic’s philosopher answers your questions

By Amanda Askell

Published: 2025-12-05

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Date Added: April 13, 2026


OSGym: Scalable OS Infra for Computer Use Agents

By Zengyi Qin, Jinyuan Chen, Yunze Man, Shengcao Cao, Ziqi Pang, Zhuoyuan Wang, Han Fang, Ling Zhu, Zixin Xie, Zibu Wei, Tianshu Ran, Haoran Geng, Ray Pan, Qizhen Sun, Zachary Bright, Yuyang Cai, Chongye Yang, Jiace Zhao, Tianrui Liu, Han Cao, Yeyang Zhou, Rui Wang, Song Wang, Xiang Ren, Bo Zhang, Yutong Ban, Pieter Abbeel, and Brian Anthony

Published: 2026-04-02

Tags: #Computer Science - Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing

Date Added: April 11, 2026


Why the AI world is suddenly obsessed with a 160-year-old economics paradox

By Greg Rosalsky

Published: 2025-02-04T06:30:00-05:00

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AI may be making us think and write more alike

By Darrin Joy

Published: 2026-03-11T23:15:51+00:00

Tags: #creativity #language #society

Date Added: April 8, 2026


Good Taste the Only Real Moat Left

By Raj Nandan Sharma

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Date Added: April 8, 2026


Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted?

By Ronan Farrow, and Andrew Marantz

Published: 2026-04-06

Tags: #frontierlab #philosophy #society

Date Added: April 7, 2026


On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜

By Emily M. Bender, Timnit Gebru, Angelina McMillan-Major, and Shmargaret Shmitchell

Published: March 1, 2021

Tags: #technical #whitepaper

Date Added: April 3, 2026