I came across this article from Benedict’s Newsletter arguing that AI would replace knowledge workers very soon: https://shumer.dev/something-big-is-happening. I rarely spend time reading through this kind of article because I tend to see them as essentially promoting anxiety for some kind of self-promotion. However, Benedict says in his newsletter, “You should read it, not to […]

Vibe coding/engineering cultivates high-level thinking and a tendency to resist focusing on concrete details. It favors task completion over internalized understanding. The sense of FOMO motivates people to think about what’s next instead of asking why. With the purchased computing power, tokens, or GPUs, we have to keep the machine busy. We need to plan […]

Some random (and mildly fun) thoughts while helping with a recent conference: Recent major AI conferences (NeurIPS, ICLR, CVPR) have all suffered from the issues of overwhelming submission volumes, and the reviewer pool inevitably expanded. The Organizers have then found themselves battling against LLM-generated reviews. ACs were asked to identify such irresponsible reviewers, authors were […]