Block lays off 40% of workforce as it goes all in on AI tools — Shares in the payment company soared more than 25 percent in after-hours trading on Thursday as it announced it would shed more than 4,000 jobs from its 10,000-strong workforce.
I post links I come across that I find interesting. Mostly AI stuff. How it works, where it's going, what it means.
Feb. 27, 2026
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Feb. 26, 2026
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How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week — The whole thing cost about $1,100 in tokens.
Feb. 25, 2026
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Redefining the Software Engineering Profession for AI — While agents can speed up workflows and reduce manual effort, they lack the intuition to anticipate edge cases and build robust solutions.
Feb. 24, 2026
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I Taught My Dog to Vibe Code Games — For the past few weeks I’ve been teaching my 9-pound cavapoo Momo (cavalier king charles spaniel and toy poodle) to vibe code games.
Why AI Doesn’t Need a Mind to Matter — our fascination with a human-like ghost is a distraction from a machine that should matter in and of itself.
Feb. 23, 2026
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Meta Director of AI Safety Allows AI Agent to Accidentally Delete Her Inbox — Summer Yue, the director of alignment at Meta Superintelligence Labs, a part of the company that is working on a hypothetical AI system that exceeds human intelligence...
Feb. 22, 2026
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Acting ethically in an imperfect world — Technology doesn’t need liberation, people do.
Data centers are a growing political issue. Voters — and candidates — are still figuring them out. — most voters expect the issue to rise, though they’re split on when that will happen.
Pope Leo tells priests not to use AI to write homilies or seek likes on TikTok — "To give a true homily is to share faith," and artificial intelligence "will never be able to share faith," the pope added.
Feb. 20, 2026
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An AI coding bot took down Amazon Web Services — Multiple Amazon employees told the FT that this was the second occasion in recent months in which one of the group’s AI tools had been at the center of a service disruption.