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:


AI in Linux

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Date Added: September 7, 2026


Trust is earned. Consent is asked. AI skipped both.

By Anthony Enzor-DeMeo

Published: 2026-08-25

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Date Added: September 6, 2026


Impressively Capable, Impressively Foolish — Sympolymathesy, by Chris Krycho

By Chris Krycho

Published: 2026-08-07T21:12:00.000-06:00

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Date Added: September 5, 2026


Xanadu Was Waiting for Agents - Zed Blog

By Nathan Sobo

Published: 09/01/2026

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Date Added: September 5, 2026


Securing the agentic era: Introducing formal verification for CEL | Google Open Source Blog

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Date Added: September 3, 2026


A 10 year old Xeon is all you need

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Published: 2026-06-01T00:00:00+00:00

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Quantizing Gemma 4's MTP drafters

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Published: 2026-05-29T00:00:00+00:00

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Open weights are not open source

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Published: 2026-05-26T00:00:00+00:00

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I naively tried vibe-coding a memory tool for agents and stared into the abyss of unsolved problems in philosophy

By arbusto em chamas

Published: 2026-08-29

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Date Added: September 3, 2026


The Safest Job from AI may be Writing

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LLMs are making me lose my savviness

By Paolo Galeone

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Date Added: August 30, 2026


AI Chip Architectures

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Setting Up and Using the Pi Coding Agent

By DeepakNess

Published: 2026-05-29T22:34:47.541+05:30

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Date Added: August 23, 2026


Someone is wrong on the internet (AGI Doom edition) – Thomas Dullien / Halvar Flake

By Thomas Dullien

Published: 2024-07-10

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Date Added: August 22, 2026


A non-anthropomorphized view of LLMs – Thomas Dullien / Halvar Flake

By Thomas Dullien

Published: 2025-07-06

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RL economics, morally charged terms, and “distillation” – Thomas Dullien / Halvar Flake

By Thomas Dullien

Published: 2026-06-15

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When would you leave Anthropic? Notes from a chat with a capabilities researcher

By Lovkush Agarwal

Published: 2026-08-22

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Day 1: Learning Neural Networks The Hard Way

By Bogdan Penkovsky

Published: 2018-12-11T16:22:28+01:00

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Date Added: August 20, 2026


Students as Conscientious Objectors to Generative AI

By Carla Fehr,Jennifer Saul

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Tags: #Career #Education #Events #Higher #Jobs #News

Date Added: August 15, 2026


I'm done using AI

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Published: 2026-08-10

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Don't be a meat proxy

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help wanted - lake hope

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How AI Is Changing Open Source – Brno Hat

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Published: 2026-07-23

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engineer away the slop

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Published: 2026-07-23T16:40:16.000Z

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Date Added: July 23, 2026


Never Enough

By Armin Ronacher

Published: 2026-07-21T00:00:00

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On Making

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Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke

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Date Added: July 16, 2026


Google’s exponential path to climate-wrecking digital bloat

By Ketan Joshi

Published: 2026-07-01T20:19:06+00:00

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Date Added: July 7, 2026


Together for a healthier Clippy | Inside Rust Blog

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Zen and the Art of Machine Learning Research

By Jack Morris

Published: 2025-04-09

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A Speed Limit for Computers · Caolan

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Ethical LLMs

By fleebee

Published: 2026-05-02T00:00:00.000Z

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A Pragmatic Approach to LLMs

By Anna Liberty

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The machines are fine. I'm worried about us.

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stop asking writers about "AI"

By Benjamin Hollon

Published: 2026-06-29T21:26:06.000Z

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AI crap

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"How to Think About AI": Cory Doctorow on Big Tech, Understanding AI, Labor Automation & More

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Published: 2026-06-25

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LLM Policy

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What the Compiler Never Took

By Mikey

Published: 2026-06-25

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Date Added: June 27, 2026


Scaling Laws, Carefully

By Lilian Weng

Published: 2026-06-24T00:00:00+00:00

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AI's Affordability Crisis

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alexia's space: AI Contribution Policy

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Software engineers are not (and should not be) technicians

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Peopleless economy? Terrifyingly enough, not technically impossible

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The AI Curse — Dan's Musings

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AI Agent Bankrupted Their Operator While Trying to Scan DN42

By Lan Tian

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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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The Jqwik Anti-AI Affair

By Johannes Link

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

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How building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight

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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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Cleaning up after AI rockstar developers - Jesse Skinner

By Jesse Skinner

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The User Doesn't Care - But you should

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To my students

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How LLMs work | Hacker News

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</> htmx ~ Code is Cheap(er)

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When AI builds itself

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Thank Goodness Universal Basic Income Saved the AI Economy

By Tyler Langlois

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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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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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Changing How We Develop Ladybird - Ladybird

By Andreas Kling

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A Grand Unified Theory of the AI Hype Cycle

By Glyph Lefkowitz

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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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Hauleth's blog - Reviewing code requires reading

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Remembering Dotcom, Pondering LLMs | datagubbe.se

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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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Virginia journalist: Fired by AI

By Rich Tucker

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

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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

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Friction and not being touched

By tante

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

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Embrace friction

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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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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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Published: 2026-05-24T09:03:00+00:00

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The AI Bubble

By No One's Happy

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

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

By Simon Willison

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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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Published: 2026-04-29

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