Zvi Mowshowitz: AI #119: Goodbye AISI? AISI is being rebranded highly non-confusingly as CAISI. Is it the end of AISI and a huge disaster, or a tactical renaming to calm certain people down? Hard to tell. It could go either way. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: AI #118: Claude Ascendant. The big news of this week was of course the release of Claude 4 Opus. I offered two review posts: One on safety and alignment, and one on mundane utility, and a bonus fun post on Google’s Veo 3. (more)

Ben Hunt: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Deficit. In narrative-world, the House passage of the Big Beautiful Bill and Elon Musk stepping back from DOGE and the White House have had a clear result: no one believes that this administration has any ability (and probably not any real desire) to control explosive growth in the federal deficit. No one is pretending otherwise any longer, not the White House, not Elon, not Bessent, not House Republicans, not the social media MAGA crew. (more)

the global context for prompt engineering

An Asynchronous Coding Agent from Google https://jules.google/ (LLM)

aka GoLang (more)

Zed is a free and open-source text and source-code editor for Linux and macOS with support for extensions, and embedded version control with Git. Developed by Zed Industries, the people behind Atom editor.[2][3][4] Features include support for syntax highlighting, Language Server Protocol (LSP), and Model Context Protocol (MCP). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zed_(text_editor) - https://zed.dev/ (more)

Peter Drucker on The Purpose and Objectives of a Business, from The Essential Drucker. (more)

(level) of people "unable" to find Employment (more)

Past and present reads. Bolded-titles were faves. See esp. Greatest Books (more)

aka US Budget deficit

see Balanced Budget (more)

Stagflation is the combination of high inflation, stagnant economic growth, and elevated unemployment. The term stagflation, a portmanteau of "stagnation" and "inflation," was popularized, and probably coined, by British politician Iain Macleod in the 1960s, during a period of economic distress in the United Kingdom. It gained broader recognition in the 1970s after a series of global economic shocks, particularly the 1973 oil crisis, which disrupted supply chains and led to rising prices and slowing growth. Stagflation challenges traditional economic theories, which suggest that inflation and unemployment are inversely related, as depicted by the Phillips Curve. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stagflation

Systems Thinking 1975 book by John Gall https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemantics (more)

The Peter principle is a concept in management developed by Laurence J. Peter which observes that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to "a level of respective incompetence": employees are promoted based on their success in previous jobs until they reach a level at which they are no longer competent, as skills in one job do not necessarily translate to another.[1][2] The concept was explained in the 1969 book The Peter Principle (William Morrow and Company) by Laurence Peter and Raymond Hull.[3] Hull wrote the text, which was based on Peter's research. Peter and Hull intended the book to be satire,[4] but it became popular as it was seen to make a serious point about the shortcomings of how people are promoted within hierarchical organizations. The Peter principle has since been the subject of much commentary and research. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle

Paul Ford: I Finally Reached Computing Nirvana. What Was It All For? Like many nerds before me, I spent a goodly portion of my life searching for the perfect computing system. I wanted a single tool that would let me write prose or programs, that could search every email, tweet, or document in a few keystrokes, and that would work across all my devices (more)

A stablecoin is a type of cryptocurrency where the value of the digital asset is supposed to be pegged to a reference asset, which is either fiat money, exchange-traded commodities (such as precious metals or industrial metals), or another cryptocurrency.[1] In theory, 1:1 backing by a reference asset could make a stablecoin value track the value of the peg and not be subject to the radical changes in value common in the market for many digital assets.[2] In practice, stablecoin issuers have yet to be proven to maintain adequate reserves to support a stable value, and there have been a number of failures with investors losing the entirety of the (fiat currency) value of their holdings. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stablecoin

Environments that make it easy for anyone to learn to code and build/customize apps for themselves (cf situated software, spreadsheet, scripting language)

term from Clay Shirky (2004): custom-built software for a small group (Creative Network) - doesn't have to worry about "scalability" of software, nor of community model (e.g. rules can be enforced in the Real World). And can be finely tuned to specific Context/requirements. Strong Ties? (more)

aka Dynamic Language: are most languages scripting/dynamic now? (more)