And based on the earlier concept by Walter Lippmann, first expressed in his 1922 book Public Opinion, which arguably birthed 20th century putatively impartial professional journalism.
The article also treats the word "good" as load-bearing in a way that should have you questioning their analysis:
"I’ve called November 2025 the November inflection point because that was when GPT-5.1 and Opus 4.5, combined with their respective coding agent harnesses, got good—good enough that we’ve spent the last six months adapting to agent systems that can reliably get useful work done."
MongoDB was once backed up by adoption across the industry. Or for a more recent example, blockchain took off like wildfire across the industry before ultimately fizzling out in all but the most niche applications.
Not saying this trend will do the same, just that the industry adopting something doesn't guarantee its success.
I don’t think those are really comparable. The blockchain was trendy hype, relatively few companies actually adopted it. Where did Netflix use the blockchain? Google?
By comparison almost all tech companies I know have leaned heavily into AI.
I immediately thought of this piece, especially the analysis on the writing style of each person.
On one hand, it is clear that the mathematical tools for confidently attributing authorship of texts were already present without LLMs. But it is striking that LLMs seem to very accurately identify authorship, through whatever process it might be, with no need for a data scientist in the loop.
Other than the uncannyness, I wonder what implications this will have. Public writing is still public; maybe we will require stronger proof of authenticity from an author (but this is arguably in place already; eg. personal websites, social media profiles, etc.). But for, say, public writing that must conserve anonymity, would people pipe their thoughts and writing pieces through a sort of fuzzing (local) LLM, that would strip text of identifying characteristics?
Public writing that must conserve anonymity is either going to disappear or going to require witnesses, notaries, or web-of-trust truestees, i.e., "flesh buffers." In a world with LLMs, every piece of writing that can't authenticate itself in some way will automatically be considered rage bait, eyeball fishing, or, at best, fiction. Just my two cents.
The attribution is likely incorrect. People have been trying to accuse him for many years, and the evidence is not very strong. This article is the strongest yet, but still commits many stylometric fallacies, and other kinds.
I recently added E2E tests in my game too. One of the benefits is that I can have my agent verify its own work by asking it write a test and look at screenshots. Which means I can say “I’m going to bed, implement this and verify it with e2e tests” and it gets further along than it used to
I wish they would too. I’d respect them more for the transparency. I think everyone’s enshitiffication sensors have rightly been dialed up over the years. So without explanations for the regressions it just feels like another example
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