Found a lovely app today. Great UX/UI and does its job perfectly. No AI “helper” jammed into it. Clean & quick to learn. Sometimes AI isn’t the answer.
The AI Bubble is being driven by the fantasy that AI can replace human labour cost effectively. It can’t. The cost of compute is too high. Semiconductors are too expensive. GPU’s, CPU’s, even a commodity like NAND flash memory. Power is too expensive. Water is too scarce. Key metals are too expensive. It’s cheaper for humans to do the work than burning tokens using Claude Code or OpenAI Codex. The layoffs were premature. Humans are cheaper than compute.
“The public has swung 49 points against data centers in just nine months, underscoring the heightened political salience of the facilities and the AI industry that they embody.”
Having a lot of fun with Claude Design. With a bit of finessing it’s been useful with slide decks and brand elements. Tokens do run out rather quickly though. Still. @AnthropicAI
What’s interesting to me is the decline in generating ideas. The tacit realization that LLMs don’t create new ideas. Humans do. Sad about therapy seeking but not surprising.
According to the Harvard Business Review, these are the top 10 generative AI use cases in 2026.
And yes, therapy/companionship is the top use case again, regardless of what AI companies say:
🚨AI and the Psychology of Cognitive Surrender
👉Gradual dependence on AI can lead to a threshold you won't notice crossing.
https://t.co/nyT0qJoQ9K #AI#cognition
The reason people don’t like AI content is because it breaks a social contract as the person publishing it doesn’t care about the audience. This is Mauss’ concept of the gift economy.
We fight cognitive tech (writing, print) then we hand off some functions to it. We will do the same with AI, but not like you might think. I explore: https://t.co/sv7QDyrfF3 #AI
Two things LLMs (AI) don’t and can’t have are habitus and egregore. These are core to what it means to be human. They help with taste, judgement and discernment. Prediction tools can’t do this.
I think the AI leaders of Silicon Valley were rather surprised and taken aback by the Pope’s document on AI. It’s rippling through society in ways no other institution has been able to do. Fascinating.