I get it - every week I look at a summary of AI news and my derealization meter spikes
I wonder if even next year 2026 will seem like the new "good old days"
I'm re-reading the title and it is a little misleading (my apologies). The answer is a little bit complicated: the domain has been registered since 1999 (27 years). The initial site ran from 1999 to 2007 (8 years) and came back as a single page app around the 2008 election (~2 years). In February he re-created the site and hopefully it beats its predecessor's record!
That's fair criticism. I did use AI to help draft and clearly didn't scrub it thoroughly enough. The story is real and the research is mine, but the presentation could be more authentic. I'll take the lesson for the next one
Don't worry we can just ask AI to make a cure!
In seriousness though this is a massive problem that needs to be stopped early. I was glad to see the article list warning signs to watch for
https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/mnsc.2024.05684
A fascinating related study showing that collaboration with AI improves cognition while passive use erodes it. Personally I love the adversarial attitude Sonnet has adopted with me!
Finally a success story
I thought during COVID there was a large shift to the suburbs where your own space was valued over neat stuff nearby, and that simultaneously raised suburban housing demand and cooled urban prices
I heard a colleague say this week that current security protocols with agents are basically putting a post-it note on a delicious cake that says "DO NOT EAT"
It's always been the tech industry's nature to race forward and scale regardless of consequence (ex. social media, the dotcom bubble etc)
But AI accelerates the cycle to a crazy degree
I do hope we see regulation in the (very) near future because this is not a tool that private enterprises and free markets should govern