Author: Ben Lorica
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AI and the Job Market: What We Know So Far
Table of Contents AI Is Changing Work Faster Than Employment The Entry-Level Squeeze Watch Hiring, Not Just Layoffs Automation and Augmentation Are Different Productivity Does Not Automatically Mean Fewer Jobs The Hiring Market Has an AI…
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Nine Practical Rules for Agents Doing Real Work
In recent conversations with crews building agents, I keep hearing the same lessons. Teams with very different products are arriving independently at almost the same architectural choices. That convergence feels important. In recent posts, I argued…
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I keep hearing the same advice about agents
Nine Practical Rules for Agents Doing Real Work In recent conversations with crews building agents, I keep hearing the same lessons. Teams with very different products are arriving independently at almost the same architectural choices. That…
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What AI Teams Should Know About HBF and Tiered Memory
For years, most of the AI memory conversation has been about bandwidth: can memory feed GPUs fast enough? Frontier inference is adding a second problem. Model weights, KV caches, and expert weights are getting large enough…
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The AI Data Center Backlash Has a Blind Spot
Within my own network, I was early in flagging the growing local opposition to AI data centers. Since then, it has moved fast, from scattered zoning fights to outright moratoriums and statewide political battles, with data…
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The biggest AI risks sit outside the model
The most revealing AI failures right now are not stories about models becoming too capable. They are stories about everything around the model. One system received more access than its test environment could contain. Another was…
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The model may not be your biggest risk
The biggest AI risks sit outside the model The most revealing AI failures right now are not stories about models becoming too capable. They are stories about everything around the model. One system received more access…
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How AI Is Changing Mathematical Research
With all the recent headlines about AI systems solving research math problems, I decided it was time to update a piece I wrote on this topic a while back. Outside of coding and programming, research mathematics…
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Continual Learning Is Arriving in Pieces
A while back I wrote about how startups are using reinforcement learning to make agents more reliable. A deeper problem behind that whole trend keeps resurfacing: a model can improve during training, but the moment it’s…
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Why do our AI models stop learning the second we deploy them?
Continual Learning Is Arriving in Pieces A while back I wrote about how startups are using reinforcement learning to make agents more reliable. A deeper problem behind that whole trend keeps resurfacing: a model can improve…
