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Cover art by Damian Mendez Romera. The latest AI models have this tendency to produce so much output that they feel like the AI equivalent of a verbose person. Producing flowery language and handling every imaginable edge case are common things that the latest frontier models are increasingly good at, although that is not necessarily a good thing. A while ago I read this article about how nobody gets promoted for simplicity, which accurately describes a feeling I have had for a long time in the software industry: the love for unnecessary complexity. ...

Cover art by Damian Mendez Romera. The Facebook app does something odd as soon as I open it: it blocks the scrollbar in my feed. As in, I can’t continue scrolling down unless I finish watching the ad Meta decided to show me. The Instagram app is doing the same thing, my feed won’t scroll after a couple of videos unless I finish watching an ad. Facebook Ad-break. The app won’t let you scroll past this point until the ad finishes. ...