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Odd Lots: What AI Got Wrong About the Public Backlash (Podcast)

Within the AI industry, even the builders of it have been very anxious about the technology. They’ve talked for years about its potential to create destabilizing job losses. They even spend a lot of time thinking about rogue AI that could lead to human extinction. But for all their anxiety, they missed the thing that’s become the most publicly salient: how upset people would be about building…

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Between Macro Diagnosis and Micro Implementation: What About the Gap?

Last July, Yuval Noah Harari, one of the most widely read thinkers of our time, spoke about AI at a corporate event. His claim was a bold one: calling AI a tool is wrong.

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  • Gap exists between Harari's diagnosis and remedies
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Don't Let Codex Roam Free: 6 Guardrails I Use for AI-Assisted Coding

Leaving Everything to AI Feels Risky. But Codex Became Much More Reliable Once I Put Up Some Guardrails https://github.com/tosane932/sales_data_app Introduction This article was originally published…

  • Define Codex's scope to specific tasks like input validation and rollback handling
  • Write failing tests before modifying production code to reproduce and verify problems
  • Use isolated databases for testing to limit impact if issues arise during testing

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