Toots from 2026-06-22#
“The irony is not necessarily that the automaton analogy is ineffectual as a basis for describi…#
“The irony is not necessarily that the automaton analogy is ineffectual as a basis for describing human performance. The irony, rather, is that the automaton analogy is also useless for describing machines in the context of human-machine systems where the functioning of the machine must be seen together with the functioning of a person”
https://sidneydekker.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/The-ironies-of-human-factors-.pdf
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“There are dozens of examples like this from multiple agentic AI projects that show the model c…#
“There are dozens of examples like this from multiple agentic AI projects that show the model claiming success when the code had significant bugs, implementing inefficient algorithms, duplicating common code throughout the code base, dismissing crashes and hangs as not relevant to the task at hand, leaving debug code behind, taking shortcuts with hacks that make code work for specific tests but that don’t generalize, and more.”
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3779312
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“Among AI’s destructive characteristics, we highlight three that will doom our essential inst…#
“Among AI’s destructive characteristics, we highlight three that will doom our essential institutions: It degrades expertise, short-circuits decisionmaking, and isolates people from each other. These are, we suggest, the pathologies of AI’s ubiquitous deployment.”
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5870623
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“Another thing you can do is replace “confidence” with “how asymmetric.” RICE asks you …#
“Another thing you can do is replace “confidence” with “how asymmetric.” RICE asks you to estimate a probability you’ve already conceded you can’t know. Asymmetry asks you to estimate two things you actually can: the worst case in time and money, and the best case in customer value.”
https://longform.asmartbear.com/confidence/
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“I’d even go as far to say that managing platforms are the most demanding product role you ca…#
“I’d even go as far to say that managing platforms are the most demanding product role you can do and I want to break down why in this week’s newsletter.”
https://www.antmurphy.me/newsletter/the-most-demanding-role-in-product
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This unfortunately will happen. I am willing to bet there’s more than one startup pitch that sk…#
This unfortunately will happen. I am willing to bet there’s more than one startup pitch that skips the entire review process in favor of opening up a PR directly: “Why review when you can resolve?” (This will not end well)
https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2026/06/19/i-am-dreading-our-llm-written-incident-report-future/