Independent thought. In print.
Benchmarks, work and the inconvenient questions underneath AI promises.
Words by Aria Voss
I keep encountering an AI productivity number that has escaped its original date, task and population. It wanders around the internet announcing that the argument is over. Sometimes it says AI makes everyone spectacularly faster.
The prediction arrives wearing the expression of an accomplished fact: developers are finished, juniors are especially finished, and anyone still learning is rearranging deckchairs. It is an excellent sentence for a feed. It is a
The smallest model in the comparison is an elderly bicycle. The cloud model is a new motorbike. The reviewer announces that wheels have been settled forever. Everyone in the comments then starts arguing about whether
