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An analysis of a proposed real-time dating app reveals critical flaws in safety, logistics, and social dynamics that explain why such concepts often fail.

The rise of LLMs is forcing a reckoning in the open source community. Explore the divisive impact on developer contributions, licensing debates, and the future of collaborative software development.

While both programmers and lawyers rely on logic, their professions are shaped by fundamentally different approaches to ambiguity, regulation, and culture. Explore the core distinctions that create two vastly different professional mindsets.

An EdTech founder questions selling in Europe due to the EU AI Act's compliance burden, sparking a debate on whether it's an 'innovation tax' or a necessary benchmark for safety in high-risk AI.

An analysis of the practical and legal challenges of creating source-available software licenses with political or ethical restrictions, exploring enforceability, legal precedents, and their value as a political statement.

Exploring the use of AI to score online discussions based on quality instead of likes. While some aspects like civility are feasible, determining factual truth remains a major technical and philosophical hurdle.

Explore strategies for addressing a colleague's overuse of unedited, low-quality AI in user communications, from direct confrontation to a subtle inquiry about company policy.

Explore the core reasons for skepticism surrounding Large Language Models, moving beyond simplistic explanations to address technical limitations, ethical concerns, and the gap between hype and practical reality.

An analysis of Google's perceived ethical decline, suggesting the shift happened years ago. Explore the key arguments and the specific moments, like the launch of Google Plus, that marked this transformation.

An analysis of user experiences reveals that the most disturbing aspects of AI aren't just errors, but its ability to blur reality, confidently mislead, and replicate human emotion so well it feels threatening.