Mariken de Ruiter

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[Mariken de Ruiter @wpmariken]

@remkusdevries There were quite some of those talks at WCTorino this year. The 30 minutes limit is a bit of tight, though

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Demis Hassabis just handed the future of civilization to the philosophers.

Not more engineers. Not more compute. Not more code.

A direct call to arms for the humanities.

Hassabis: “It’s very urgent that we really think about the second-order consequences. Many of you in the humanities subjects, it’s now your time in my opinion.”

The CEO of Google DeepMind. The man further down the road of artificial intelligence than almost anyone alive.

And he’s saying the next chapter doesn’t belong to him.

He laid out the exact sequence of what comes next.

First, get the technology right.

Then, rewrite the economics.

Then, face the philosophical questions about the human condition.

That third layer is where everything changes.

Because we’ve spent all of recorded history defining ourselves by what we can do. Think. Build. Solve. Create.

Intelligence was the currency. The differentiator. The thing that separated us from everything else on this planet.

And we’re about to make it abundant.

When the thing you built your entire identity around becomes something a machine does better, faster, and for free…

You don’t have a technology problem.

You have a mirror.

And the mirror is asking one question.

What are you without the doing?

Most people look at that question and see obsolescence.

Hassabis sees elevation.

Hassabis: “I’m very optimistic that we’re gonna get this right. I’m a big believer in human ingenuity, especially when the pressure’s on.”

This is not a warning about the end of the world.

It’s an invitation to build a better one.

For a century, society pushed the humanities to the margins. We prioritized the mechanics of survival over the philosophy of living.

That era is over.

When artificial intelligence automates the mechanics of survival, philosophy ceases to be a theoretical luxury.

It becomes the most critical applied science on Earth.

Algorithms cannot calculate what constitutes a virtuous life. Code cannot assign meaning.

The technologists are about to hand us infinite leverage. But infinite leverage without human direction is just chaos.

Hassabis: “Humanity has always figured it out when the chips are down. And they are now.”

The chips are down.

But that’s exactly where this species does its best work.

We spent ten thousand years building a machine that could lift the burden of basic survival.

We succeeded.

Now we finally get to figure out what it actually means to be alive.

[Mariken de Ruiter @wpmariken]

@JulianGoldieSEO agent OS

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@Zephyr_hg Sales

[Mariken de Ruiter @wpmariken]

@thekevingeary 😳

[Mariken de Ruiter @wpmariken]

I just published Custom-built or tailored? The sense and nonsense of a bespoke WordPress website https://t.co/JvjUWyDecW

[Gita Gopinath @GitaGopinath]

A painting of the end of meritocracy: A meeting of the two largest economies and not one woman at the table.

[Mariken de Ruiter @wpmariken]

#WCTRN26

[WordCamp Torino @WordCampTRN]

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#WCTRN26

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

Watch Bob Fosse's snake performance in "The Little Prince" from 1974 and tell me you don't see Michael Jackson's entire dance career born in real time.

Wild to see the source material...

[Mariken de Ruiter @wpmariken]

@PineDigitalCo Thanks, I was searching for this

[Matt Pocock @mattpocockuk]

4 of the most confusing terms in AI, defined:

Model: a blob of parameters, written during training. Does next-token prediction and nothing else. Stateless.

Harness: everything around the model that turns it into an agent: tools, system prompt, context window management, etc.

Environment: the world the agent acts on. Anything outside the harness that the agent perceives and acts on via tools.

Agent: a model, harnessed, in an environment.

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Opus is a model.

Claude Code and Claude Web are different agents, because their harnesses differ - even though the models are the same.

The file system is an environment. MCP servers add tools to the environment.

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

Holy shit, this is BRILLIANT: This dude breaks down why everyone thinks the whole WHCD event was fake... everything about trump is FAKE.

Best video you'll see today.

[Sense Receptor @SenseReceptor]

🔥Combat correspondent and former Green Beret Michael Yon on WH correspondents' dinner shooting:

"[This is] another fake shooting event with Trump."

"It's obviously fake."

"Trump is just part of the actual information operation."

"Karoline Leavitt, by the way, shortly before the fake shooting, was saying there would be shots fired at this press event."

"[This] is a waste of time. We're in a huge war. [Trump's] an information operation."

This clip of Yon (@Michael_Yon), who is a photographer and author as well as a combat correspondent, is taken from a video posted to his Substack page on April 25, 2026.

[Mariken de Ruiter @wpmariken]

@Atlassian, I never had a Trello account. I used to be a Loom fan (until you took the helm).
Why do I need to sign up again?

[Undiscovered History @HistoryUnd]

Tom Brown, a retired engineer, dedicated 25 years to preserving approximately 1,200 apple varieties from extinction.

[Mariken de Ruiter @wpmariken]

@therealbigjonno @MichaelAArouet Totally agree.

[Mariken de Ruiter @wpmariken]

@great_martis straddle time

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@Stefano_Cassone Condoleanze Stefano. Abbraccio.

[Mariken de Ruiter @wpmariken]

interesting

[Jeremy Moser @jmoserr]

I think this is happening everywhere, not just SWE.

Everyone is outsourcing their thinking to AI.

I catch myself having AI draft or edit very simple emails for me…

Slippery slope where we all lose our actual skills and experience from over reliance on AI models.