Tim Bray's 30th Long Links roundup curates a wide range of reads, deliberately front-loading non-AI content. Non-tech highlights include Paul Ford's return to writing, an economist conversation on inequality, CO2 monitoring for health, and a London essay. Tech-but-not-AI links cover Dependabot skepticism, de-Googling personal life, and open-source sustainability. The AI section, which Bray almost cut, includes pieces on 'write-only code' risks from AI-driven dev velocity, Anthropic's Claude, the argument that AI's problems stem from bad human actors, critiques of AI mandates manufacturing noise, and skepticism about automation eliminating necessary friction. Bray's own stance: LLMs will find niche uses including software development, but the bubble will pop and much of the hype is driven by 'shitty people'.
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