Emily Wissel, PhD
ewiss.bsky.social
Emily Wissel, PhD
@ewiss.bsky.social
data scientist @ TUM || proteomics, human microbiome, and clinical health research
Reposted by Emily Wissel, PhD
A couple recent smart observations I've read bolster this intuition.

First is this piece by David Gerard from May asking where the AI contributions to pretty much any open code base are:

pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/13/i...
If AI is so good at coding … where are the open source contributions?
You can hardly get online these days without hearing some AI booster talk about how AI coding is going to replace human programmers. AI code is absolutely up to production quality! Also, you’re all…
pivot-to-ai.com
July 24, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Reposted by Emily Wissel, PhD
- They were waiting for me when I got off the plane
- They knew (or it felt like they knew) everything about me
- I had cleaned up my online presence expecting ad hoc digital sweeps; I was not prepared for their sophistication
- Sophistication almost certainly facilitated by Palantir
June 14, 2025 at 1:27 AM