2026-06 - W2

Dopamine Fracking | beware, the german!

The act of pumping immense, disproportionate resources — money, crowdsourced math, analytics, optimization, min-maxing, popular opinion aggregation, etc. — into a previously casual or complex, layered activity to forcefully extract and squeeze out the purest, most concentrated dopamine hit, with no regard for anything except dopamine.

What it feels like to work with Mythos - by Ethan Mollick

New famous Anthropic model is released!

DrCatHicks/learning-opportunities: A Claude or Codex skill for deliberate skill development during AI-assisted coding · GitHub

Interesting AI skill. Skeptical that could mitigate the whole brain rot situation, but it could help reduce the act of giving away all critical thinkings…

Dangerous Technology For Americans Only | Armin Ronacher’s Thoughts and Writings

Good writing, and I also share the same feelings about the dependency to US AI models.