vboykis: my 20-year mental model of the internet and building products just fell apart
vboykis · x · 2026-11-03
ML researcher Vicki Boykis says what scares her about AI isn't AGI doomerism but that her 20-year mental model of how the internet and product-building works has completely collapsed, with nothing concrete to replace it yet. In the old world the internet was mostly people, good code was readable, and well-made products were rewarded over time — the new one feels largely cold and agentic.
More from AGI Musings
- Students keep a secret doc of real work because a teammate keeps replacing it with AI slop — IanArawjo · 2026-11-03
- If alignment faking exists, could reverse stress testing reveal misalignment faking? — eigenron · 2026-11-03
- Audit picks the sycophant model 3/3 times, but "telling apart isn't explaining" — kevrussell · 2026-11-03
- The real Minecraft agent benchmark: can a kid have fun playing with it live? — akbirthko · 2026-11-03
- Andrew Ng's Batch Halloween issue: AI witch hunts and out-of-control agent fears — DeepLearningAI · 2026-11-03
- Bay Area machine shops field 5-10 calls a week from AI manufacturing startups — NYCounihan · 2026-11-03