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Mastering AI
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Retired app developer, programmer 40+ years, substack coming soon.
"Those that cannot learn from the past are condemned to repeat it." Santayana
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Executive Summary:
Code written by AI is crap & real humans need to fix it which reduces productivity. AI code fails, sometimes catastrophically:
youtu.be/ts0nH_pSAdM?...
How Replacing Developers With AI is Going Horribly Wrong
YouTube video by Economy Media
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mastering-ai-blog.bsky.social
Executive Summary:
Code written by AI is crap & real humans need to fix it which reduces productivity. AI code fails, sometimes catastrophically:
youtu.be/ts0nH_pSAdM?...
How Replacing Developers With AI is Going Horribly Wrong
YouTube video by Economy Media
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February 1, 2026 at 1:37 AM
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AI writing code for the next generation of AI. What could possibly go wrong? Even Amodei believes his own hype, with some sense of dread. Listen to his concerns.
youtu.be/tjW_gms7CME?...
Anthropic CEO speaks about 'powerful' AI risks and regulation
YouTube video by NBC News
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January 27, 2026 at 9:51 PM
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If super-intelligent AI is real, will we just be pets? Food for thought (but there are no answers):
youtu.be/rGAA59JTBtg?...
Harari and Tegmark on Humanity and AI
YouTube video by Bloomberg Live
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January 24, 2026 at 11:47 AM
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This will be what data centers look like in a couple of years:
Frame from "THX 1138" circa 1971.
January 23, 2026 at 1:38 PM
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Because the "chat" companies will fail when they actually charge what it costs to turn a profit. The end is near:
youtu.be/9yy_Wz0BbyU?...
How Circular Deals Are Driving the AI Boom
YouTube video by Bloomberg Originals
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January 23, 2026 at 1:33 PM
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Trump's booming economy is just AI shady deals & circular investing of borrowed billions. If the magnificent 7 don't make profits soon, it's all over.
youtu.be/xl86PtBmHDY?...
AI Bubble: Majority of companies report no payoff from AI adoption | Natasha Bernal
YouTube video by The Tech Report
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January 21, 2026 at 9:25 PM
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AI in education:
www.brookings.edu/articles/ais...
AI’s future for students is in our hands | Brookings
Mary Burns and Rebecca Winthrop explore the role artificial intelligence will play in shaping the future of student learning and development.
www.brookings.edu
January 21, 2026 at 6:30 AM
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Another point of view about AI (and the Moon and Mars) from Neil:
youtu.be/eioPNsGe4xE?...
Steven Bartlett: The Probability of Going to Mars is ZERO (Here's Why) | Neil deGrasse Tyson
YouTube video by Journey of a Visionary
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January 18, 2026 at 11:51 AM
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AI is not new. Hype from 1984:
youtu.be/_S3m0V_ZF_Q?...
The Computer Chronicles - Artificial Intelligence (1984)
YouTube video by The Computer Chronicles
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January 17, 2026 at 7:26 PM
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Just to balance all the hype:
youtu.be/rsCGisbz04Y?...
Ed Zitron: At least a quarter of AI data centres will go unused
YouTube video by The Tech Report
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January 17, 2026 at 2:51 PM
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Good coverage of AI hype vs reality. Some techie terminology but it hits the high points.
youtu.be/IcqEBdYGYyY?...
AI Bubble? Why the Hype Dies but Machine Learning Stays
YouTube video by David Bombal
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January 16, 2026 at 11:26 PM
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AI in education: support vs replace? Balanced report:
youtu.be/g_gRHW4SJtI?...
Education in transition: How AI is changing teaching
YouTube video by DW Shift
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January 14, 2026 at 2:17 PM
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AI reality:
www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-vs-...
AI vs Human Error: Where Machines Win, Where They Fail, and Why Hybrid Beats Both
AI vs Human Error: Where Machines Win, Where They Fail, and Why Hybrid Beats Both TL;DR “Error rate” isn’t one universal number. Depending on the domain, it can mean missed cancers, mistranscribed wor...
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January 13, 2026 at 5:27 PM
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You can safely experiment with AI using Duck-AI in the duck-duck-go browser. No AI account required and free (for older models). Experience how LLMs work and how they may be useful. Just remember that they are "talking birds" with no idea of what they are saying.
duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-h...
DuckDuckGo AI Features - DuckDuckGo Help Pages
DuckDuckGo provides private, useful, and optional AI features to people who want the benefits of AI without the privacy risks.
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December 15, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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OpenAI says it plans to report stunning annual losses through 2028—and then turn wildly profitable just two years later | Fortune
The company anticipates burning through roughly $9 billion this year on $13 billion in sales, a cash burn rate of approximately 70% of revenue.​
fortune.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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AI in Education, a useful tool or the end of critical thinking? One point of view:
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 7, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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LLMs are just mimics. Imagine a parrot that has learned all the words of all languages on the internet: that is an LLM. They can mimic human speech with no idea of meaning. The I in AI depends entirely on the intelligence of the human user.
December 3, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Stephen Fry lecture on AI is elegant and so right-on and very important. A must listen to imagine the consequences for humanity.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=-Cw3...
(skip to 10:44 for his lecture)
AI: A means to an end or a means to the end? with Stephen Fry
YouTube video by King's Digital Futures Institute
m.youtube.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:55 PM