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I really didn't want to give the valuable top space to AI, but Ronny Chieng's Harvard Class Day address is just golden.

It will take 21 minutes of your time, and hopefully, you will take at least that much time afterwards to think about what he says about AI, privilege and being a good person.

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Nobody Pushed Back: An amazing piece by Emirhan Yıldırım about how people who are closest to problems give up quietly, yet continue caring about the issues within their trusted connections. These trusted connections rarely contain the managers, influencers and decision-makers who steadily contribute to the problems bit by bit.

Open Manifesto for AI Agents: A very promising draft from Mehmet Ali Aydın (and contributors) about using autonomous AI agents. This is exactly the type of discourse we need when we talk about AI. Mehmet Ali is a seasoned expert in systems development and DevOps and he picks his words carefully in the technical domain. Notice how the text doesn't use the verbiage from the LLM vendors, like "intelligence", "hallucination", or "conscience"? Also notice how he refers to the capabilities in hardcore IT terms. That is because these systems are IT components that need to be reined in, not miracle supplements that should be added to our city water supply.