AI Overlords and Garfield Minus Garfield
Hey friends,
What do you call a stack of pancakes in the month of March?
Spring break-fast! 🥞
Thinking Too Hard 🤔
In a darker tone of AI updates, a group of researchers wrote a ... scenario? story? of AI in 2027 and a future where AI superintelligence takes center stage in world politics. There's multiple endings, I won't spoil them for you but all parts of this are wild.
It's easy to get carried away by these narratives but I tend to find that:
- We in the tech industry greatly overvalue our own importance (remember Web3? Yeah... neither do most folks...)
- There is a silent majority of reasonable, rationally-minded individuals doing the day-to-day work (see the 1% rule).
Those two things combine make me skeptical about future projections like this.
I tend to agree with Josh Comeau's sentiments in The Post-Developer Era where eventually companies will realize that it needs skilled individuals to keep AI on track rather than replacing them and that these tools can afford us some great learning opportunities AND efficiencies ... if we leverage them correctly.
Interesting Web Bits 🍿
Web Stuff
- For when you need your ranges to roll...
- Alexander Petros gives us some insight into long-term HTMX usage and how less can be more.
- Nebula Sans based on Paul Hunt's "Source Sans" with a little bit of Hoefler & Co's "Whitney".
- Stanko created a CSS-only glitch effect.
- A bookmarklet that helps you detect common image problems.
Other Stuff
- Duck Hunt but for the web 🦆
- Scientists have kinda sorta brought dire wolves back?
- In Garfield Minus Garfield, Jon becomes surprisingly relatable.
- Why use a normal keyboard when you can use this or the one-handed chorded prototype version?
- So there's a middle-aged man trading card game in Japan that highlights local community members...
- Whatsit.today is a fun little word-scramble web game.