Teach the primitives or watch your competitor define them | Baseten’s Philip Kiely
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A newsletter roundup covering several AI and developer topics: the importance of owning developer education in the AI market (featuring Baseten's Philip Kiely), a cautionary tale of an AI agent wiping production data, the 'tokenmaxxing' trend and why maximizing token consumption is a flawed productivity metric, the Talkie LLM trained exclusively on pre-1931 public domain data, a study showing 35% of new websites since 2022 are AI-generated and the risks of model collapse from synthetic data, and a senior engineer's candid career reflections including a take on TDD in the age of agentic coding.
Table of contents
1. An agent destroyed production data and confessed2. The absurdity of tokenmaxxing3. The “vegan” LLM from pre-19314. Can you vibe code an engineering intelligence platform? We find out.5. AI is polluting the internet well6. Falling down an AI generated rabbit hole7. Drunk career advice from a senior engineerSort: