Echoing what I heard from some others - AINews subscribe form does not work - just tried it again - no verification link. Opt-out/opt-in does not help either.
This is great! I’ll be submitting some writing / posts for the guest writing. So much to share about AI architecture being deep in the AI-augmented SWE space in my work.
as for Cape Town - we're probably full up for 2026, but you don't need to work with us to make a regular monthly AIE meetup, and having a steady base and organizers will help us give confidence to make 2027 happen!
Thanks for writing this, it clarifies a lot. The "War on Slop" is such a brilliant, necessary declaration! It truely resonated with me. While performative aspects are key, I also wonder if sometimes slop comes from a rush to deliver, missing crucial foundational steps. Quality always wins.
Nice; inspiring. Brings to mind Azeem Azhar's 3 key skills for work in the AI era: abstraction, clarity, and (especially) evaluation. Also Every's post today on their system for code review using agents to detect problems, humans to work on making sure they don't happen again. Or, as they said after having 13 agents do code review, "The 50/50 rule
Speaking of scaling without slop and other externalities, did you guys see Katherin Hayhoe's recent post on AI and climate change by chance? "When AI hurts the climate—and when it helps" She's one of the like top 5 most influential people online regarding climate change and she emphasizes it's all about how power generation gets delivered and how AI is used. You guys should have her on your show, I bet a lot of people would be very interested to hear that conversation! https://www.patreon.com/posts/when-ai-hurts-it-148885841
Echoing what I heard from some others - AINews subscribe form does not work - just tried it again - no verification link. Opt-out/opt-in does not help either.
thanks - i think that's because I needed to switch it over to Substack. sorry sorry... let me get on that right now
This is great! I’ll be submitting some writing / posts for the guest writing. So much to share about AI architecture being deep in the AI-augmented SWE space in my work.
great!
Thanks Shawn - hoping we get an AIE here in Cape Town, South Africa sometime! I was glad to see YouTube's CEO talking out about stemming the tide of AI Slop too: https://blog.youtube/inside-youtube/the-future-of-youtube-2026/
oh TIL YouTube cares too! good!
as for Cape Town - we're probably full up for 2026, but you don't need to work with us to make a regular monthly AIE meetup, and having a steady base and organizers will help us give confidence to make 2027 happen!
Thanks for writing this, it clarifies a lot. The "War on Slop" is such a brilliant, necessary declaration! It truely resonated with me. While performative aspects are key, I also wonder if sometimes slop comes from a rush to deliver, missing crucial foundational steps. Quality always wins.
Nice; inspiring. Brings to mind Azeem Azhar's 3 key skills for work in the AI era: abstraction, clarity, and (especially) evaluation. Also Every's post today on their system for code review using agents to detect problems, humans to work on making sure they don't happen again. Or, as they said after having 13 agents do code review, "The 50/50 rule
I spent 15 minutes fixing those bugs. Then I spent another 15 minutes making sure I’d never see them again." https://every.to/source-code/i-stopped-reading-code-my-code-reviews-got-bette
thats a pretty great tradeoff if it's always like that...
Speaking of scaling without slop and other externalities, did you guys see Katherin Hayhoe's recent post on AI and climate change by chance? "When AI hurts the climate—and when it helps" She's one of the like top 5 most influential people online regarding climate change and she emphasizes it's all about how power generation gets delivered and how AI is used. You guys should have her on your show, I bet a lot of people would be very interested to hear that conversation! https://www.patreon.com/posts/when-ai-hurts-it-148885841
very cool :) I have not heard her stuff organically come up and we really try to time it for what listeners want. Will keep a look out for her.