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:


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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Date Added: July 7, 2026


Zen and the Art of Machine Learning Research

By Jack Morris

Published: 2025-04-09

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Date Added: July 7, 2026


A Speed Limit for Computers · Caolan

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Date Added: July 6, 2026


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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Date Added: July 4, 2026


stop asking writers about "AI"

By Benjamin Hollon

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

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Date Added: July 1, 2026


AI crap

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Date Added: June 29, 2026


"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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Date Added: June 28, 2026


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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Date Added: June 25, 2026


AI's Affordability Crisis

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Date Added: June 23, 2026


alexia's space: AI Contribution Policy

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Date Added: June 19, 2026


Software engineers are not (and should not be) technicians

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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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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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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

By 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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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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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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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

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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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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Published: 2009-04-13T04:39:00-0400

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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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Published: 2026-05-22

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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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Published: 2026-05-13T14:43:44+00:00

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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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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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Date Added: May 13, 2026


Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise

By Tuhin Nair

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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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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