Scott Rosenberg

You never know what's gonna cut through the noise and have an impact, "have you no sense of decency sir at long last" style, but I gotta say the $50M pardon is a strong contender

Important thread -- AI makers are repeating a cycle we've seen repeatedly in tech history where software developers assume that everyone else in the universe orders daily life and work the way they do.

I would not want to get within kicking distance of one of these clankers but it does seem like they're getting steadily more agile, at least in China. On-the-scene reporting and commentary from Julia Scott in Shanghai: www.linkedin.com/pulse/i-just...

Also notable about the recent vibe shift in AI is that it has made Jensen Huang – a plainly motivated CEO of the world's largest company, familiar sort of capitalist, and someone with a legible perspective on the industry surrounding him — sound like a heretic www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

@greatdismal.bsky.social's "The street finds its own uses for things" very much in action.

one takeaway i had from working in digital media in the 2010s was that it's pretty bad for your brain and your understanding of your career/the world when your industry becomes the main subject of twitter and twitter becomes the main context for your industry. also bad for the industry overall

Literary fiction is coming. It is going to revolutionize the economy. We know that China has already got a start on literary fiction. We can’t afford to be left out of the literary fiction economy. Think of your kids. They might already be engaging with literary fiction.

Read this excerpt ages ago and it always stuck with me

Warsh said "“Oversharing policy deliberations and overcommitting to future decisions can lead markets, businesses and households astray." But all this time I thought markets function best when information is abundantly and equally available! Did something change?

Dear New York Times: I am one reader who uses multiple browsers on multiple devices — not multiple users sharing passwords to a single account. I am not a "family" and don't wish to upgrade to a family subscription. Please stop requiring me to type in emailed codes and suggesting I pay you extra

If you grew up listening to "Ziggy Stardust" then you get it: this is maybe the most bonkers yet fitting screwup that could ever be

The fundamental challenge of software development is becoming how do you build reliable software using AI agents that are frequently wrong and often don’t follow instructions while your engineering team increasingly doesn’t understand the codebase because they didn’t write the code?

LLMs from all the big AI cos keep telling tales about a lighthouse keeper "Elias Thorne." Great story from @404media.co @samleecole.bsky.social based on fascinating paper excavating the likely logic. Shared training data and methods lead to shared fixations. www.404media.co/elias-thorne...

This thread is a useful explainer on the difference between autocomplete and LLMs. Though I still think the analogy is helpful for dispelling the magical "it's thinking!" response. Read all the way through for an amazing demo of a heat-map tool showing LLM "attention" processes in action

" Imagine an English teacher asking people to turn in their five-paragraph essays and everyone turns in a bad novel. That’s what product managers are dealing with in the era of vibe coding." From @ftrain.bsky.social, the whole newsletter is a great read aboard.com/the-ai-hango...

Too many people still confuse Software Engineering with writing code. Code is the artifact. Software Engineering is understanding the problem, making tradeoffs, designing the system, reducing complexity, and deciding what shouldn't be built. No amount of 'vibe coding' can help you with this.

Getting serious Saul Goodman vibes from Paxton in this pic

Vibe-coding CEOs are inducing "the corporate equivalent of a bad acid trip" aboard.com/dear-vibe-co...

This is both funny and sad. You cannot do "AI-assisted research" AND "AI-assisted verification." If you MUST use the bot for research, you better do the verification yourself. And if you're writing a book about truth, you oughta know that?? www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/b...

Just wanna say it took roughly 25 years before you could even imagine getting booed in public by mentioning the Web/internet. Generative AI has now speed-run this road in, what, under four? And the bubble hasn't even burst yet.

Thanks @404media.co @jasonkoebler.bsky.social : "I have a finite time on this earth that I mostly want to spend interacting with other human beings. I don’t want to be the person arguing with a robot." www.404media.co/your-ai-use-...

Remarkable essay — written with utter clarity and sobriety yet fully impassioned — on "refusal to work" as a response to our militarist/billionairist world.

PART 2 of MY INVESTIGATION: Watch how ChatGPT gave me chilling advice—as I simulated planning a mass shooting. This 9-minute video and story contain shocking behavior from OpenAI’s chatbot. OpenAI keeps saying it improved safeguards, but that's not what I found. www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0... 🧵

Great story. This is a perfect ourobouros -- AI-makers desperately need to hoard data for training but their own data centers' needs are crowding out the public resources that preserve the data.

er this explains a lot

@ftrain.bsky.social on the coming software glut: "It’s easy to build software in 2026, but it’s still hard to support, market, and maintain it." Will software just become an ambient tool like pencils and paper? It's just there and we put it to work? Not yet, but ... soon? aboard.com/claude-desig...

Substack's CEO now trying to scare people into *only* distributing their content through their proprietary app, not email. (The link he posted warns users away from email.) It's not enough that Substack's locking in publishers & readers with "notes" and comments, now they're escalating tactics.

I guess next up SCOTUS will say nothing about the substance of what we're learning this weekend but immediately launch a mad crusade to find and punish the leaker(s).

The Wetland Project has been my favorite alternate-reality radio experience since it began. Since it only happens once a year, you can’t become accustomed to it. Close your eyes and be washed over by the sonic reality of an isolated bog on Saturna Island!

From what I'm hearing it sounds like Justin Bieber's avant garde production of "Krapp's Last Tape" was controversial?