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A few interesting articles I read over the past few days

• What If We Made Advertising Illegal? — The idea of making advertising illegal may sound silly but couldn’t agree more. I’ve been unlucky enough to work for the industry and can’t imagine a better society with the current practices.
• Notes on kindness — “So eventually, if you care, you leave”
• The case against conversational interfaces — Conversational interfaces, like voice assistants and chatbots, often promise a new way to interact with technology but fail to replace traditional computing methods. Instead of replacing existing tools, AI should enhance them, allowing for seamless interactions that feel effortless.
• How to Write Blog Posts that Developers Read — Didn’t like the main topic of the article since it’s focused on ways to attract readers to your blog posts. When I write I do it for myself and I expect other personal blogs to do the same. Anyway, some of the advice is good even if you’re not focused on attracting readers.
• Tracing the thoughts of a large language model — Anthropic team explains how are they working on understanding Claude’s internal “reasoning” processes. This research branch could help improve AI reliability and transparency.
• Cyanview: Coordinating Super Bowl’s visual fidelity with Elixir — Leaving aside the Elixir infomercial. Interesting read about how a team of nine have managed to build such an incredible product. It might sound simple but as someone who has been working with remote cameras in the past, ai can tell it’s more complex than it sounds.
• Things that go wrong with disk IO — Short article emphasizing the critical importance of maintaining data integrity when developing applications that rely on disk interactions