2026-08 - W2

Incentives are for losers - by Adam Mastroianni

Thought provoking essay. Might be quite difficult to “escape” from this value system.

”Coding is solved” misses the point - Waldek Mastykarz

Advanced AI sycophancy

But sycophancy can also manifest as disagreement. We should be on our guard for more sophisticated forms of sycophancy coming from newer models, and we should not feel immune from AI sycophancy just because we can laugh at the silliest examples.

That’s… quite interesting. I did not think of this way.

How to Fight Clickbait: Meta, LinkedIn & YouTube Case Studies

Interesting article, showing 3 different paths taken by 3 giant RecSys.