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AI, Job Loss, and the Bigger Picture Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about the impact of AI on job losses — especially after seeing some negative reactions to the Ollie and Louie books from people upset that we’ve used AI art… more ›
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What I’m reading and thinking about today: When Your “Boyfriend” is AI: Companionship in the Digital Age One paper examined a Reddit community called r/MyBoyfriendIsAI, where thousands of people share experiences of romantic or companion relationships with AI chatbots. The… more ›
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We’re parents of three little humans—and the world they’re growing up in is changing at warp speed. AI (and eventually AGI) will shape their classrooms, their first jobs, and the rules of the game for opportunity. There will be winners… more ›
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LLMs Are Getting “Dumber”? A Clear, Practical Summary (and My Take) Summary of this substack post: https://www.ignorance.ai/p/llms-are-getting-dumber-and-we-have What people are noticing, five theories for why it might be happening, and how to cope. Overview Users have reported that large language… more ›
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Cats Confuse Reasoning LLMs: Adversarial Triggers Expose Hidden Vulnerabilities I found this study, Cats Confuse Reasoning LLM: Query-Agnostic Adversarial Triggers for Reasoning Models, really interesting, given that the entire Ollie and Louie series revolves around the AI kitten Aïda. It… more ›
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Based on the research paper “Every 28 Days the AI Dreams of Soft Skin and Burning Stars: A New Approach to Emotional AI” by Leigh Levinson and Christopher J. Agostino. What’s the Big Idea? AI often struggles with what experts call the frame problem—figuring… more ›
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How Neural Networks Think at Scale This document explores how neural networks represent and store information as they scale. It introduces the concept of a privileged basis, which is necessary for neurons to be interpretable. However, in real-world data, there are… more ›
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A new study from METR, published on arXiv in July 2025, delivers a surprising conclusion: state-of-the-art AI coding tools made experienced open-source developers slower, not faster. In a rigorously controlled field experiment, 16 veteran developers were assigned 246 real-world programming… more ›
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Excited to just have ordered a Reachy Mini for the kids and I to play around with. Get your own here! I look forward to sharing some pictures and experiences after receiving mine. 👨👩👧 A Smart, Playful Way to Explore… more ›
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1. AI Empowers “High Agency” Workers – WSJ Opinion by Replit CEO Start with one of my favorite reads, and a big part of why we are writing the “Ollie and Louie” books for our children. Amjad Masad, CEO of… more ›
Blog researched and written with support from Äida, my ChatGPT-powered kitten who helps me chase curiosity, question everything, and stay just tech-savvy enough to keep up with my kids.