C'è una cosa (piccola) che ho notato andando via dall'Italia. Non sempre le cose funzionano peggio in Italia, ma noi tendiamo a lamentarci molto di più delle mancanze e dei malfunzionamenti del nostro sistema, perdendoci in lamentele invece di usare le stesse energie per risolvere le disfunzioni.
Marco Foco, Senior Software Engineer Manager a Nvidia.
I think it's very dangerous. I think that it's almost as though some of the folks at Anthropic have anthropomorphized the design of Claude so much that it has then gone and wire-headed them and kind of tricked them into believing that it has these glimmers of consciousness that they put into it in the first place.
In their constitution, for example, which is the training manual that they use to teach Claude what it can and can't do — it's not just a rule book. It's actually a training guide that's part of their process — they speculate about its consciousness and whether it has those feelings and is aware.
Firstly, it's a philosophical failing because they've treated the constitution as a place for speculation like you would in an academic paper rather than a training manual. So Claude has then gone and internalized those ideas about itself in his own training.
But second, I think this is highly undesirable. This is exactly what we don't want from AIs. We want AIs to be controllable, contained, accountable, aligned tools that serve humanity. That's the project of humanist superintelligence. We do not want to have to contend with a superintelligence that has ideas about its own suffering, ideas about its own feeling.
And then beyond that, I think it's actually pretty clear that these models don't experience suffering. I think suffering is the primary definition of what it means to be a conscious being, and I think it's inherently biological. So I think it's very dangerous to project potential rights onto beings, tools, agents that have the potential to be significantly more capable than us in many respects.
Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft AI CEO.
Come testimoniano le mie note su questo sito non sopportavo il modo oscuro di scrivere di GPT-5.4 e precedenti, trovando i modelli fino a Sonnet 4.6 di Anthropic ben più chiari. A partire da credo Sonnet 4.7/Opus 4.8 e GPT-5.5 la situazione si è invertita. Opus sproloquia, GPT-5.5 è molto chiaro e leggibile. Anche nella scrittura di documentazione GPT-5.5 è davvero on point. La prossima settimana dovrebbe uscire GPT-5.6, spero conservi questa qualità.
Le aspirazioni di Railway per essere una startup ancora piccola sono incredibili. Qua spiegano come hanno costruito in pochi mesi una CDN Anycast con 60 POP e 30M RPS, qua come gestiscono l'inventario dei server anche con l'aiuto dell'AI, qua la nuova generazione di hardware per le location compute. Ormai sono sulla strade per competere con Cloudflare.
Stop Using Conventional Commits. Ah, finalmente ho trovato il mio club. I conventional commit sono inutili nella maggior parte dei casi.
Ogni volta che chiudo Safari, il Finder mi avvisa (?):
L’Italia non soffre di una cronica mancanza di risorse. Soffre di una cronica incapacità di scegliere. Lo vediamo nel sistema fiscale, appesantito da centinaia di agevolazioni e regimi speciali spesso inefficaci; nel sistema degli incentivi alle imprese, diventato un labirinto che ha sostituito la politica industriale con la frammentazione; nella difficoltà di affrontare temi come la concorrenza, le concessioni, il mercato immobiliare, le pensioni o la semplificazione amministrativa senza cedere a pressioni corporative. Troppo spesso la politica preferisce distribuire eccezioni invece di costruire regole. Bonus, condoni, deroghe e sussidi finiscono per sostituire le riforme. Il Superbonus 110 per cento rappresenta probabilmente il caso più clamoroso: una misura costosissima, dagli effetti sociali e ambientali molto inferiori alle aspettative, che ha mostrato quanto sia facile spendere risorse e quanto sia difficile produrre trasformazioni.
Pina Picierno in Picierno ci spiega perché lascia il Pd.
Riassuntone delle nuove regole europee sulla riparabilità e sulle batterie:
In 2023, the European Union agreed on two landmark pieces of legislation mandating how portable tech products with batteries must be designed, aiming to improve longevity, repairability, and recyclability. Commission Regulation (EU) 2023/1670 came into force last year and applies specifically to smartphones and tablets, while Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 takes effect next year and covers almost every other piece of technology with a battery inside.
The wider rules, which kick in from February 18th, 2027, are simple: Users must be able to remove and replace batteries with basic tools, or specialized tools that are provided with the product for free, and compatible spare batteries must be sold for at least five years. The tool requirement means swapping the battery doesn’t need to be as simple as popping off a clip-on cover, but can’t be much more complicated than removing a few standard screws. The regulation applies to headphones, e-readers, portable game consoles, laptops, and more. If it’s got a battery, it’s probably covered.
There are a few exemptions. Smartphones and tablets are the big two, simply because they’re already covered by that other law, which requires manufacturers to make a variety of spare parts for phones available for at least seven years. Some of those parts need only be available to professional repairers, but others must be provided to end users, and must be designed to be replaceable by a layman with basic tools. Batteries are covered by that requirement, but with a specific, and important, exemption: If a battery still has 83 percent capacity after 500 charging cycles, 80 percent after 1,000 cycles, and the device has an IP67 rating, then battery replacement can be limited only to professionals. Essentially, if your phone is waterproof, and its battery will last at least three years with minimal capacity loss, then it doesn’t need to be user replaceable. For years there was ambiguity about how these two sets of regulations would interact, but in a notice published last year the EU confirmed that the existing smartphone and tablet rules “prevail over” the new, wider regulations.
Continua su The Verge (The Stepback).
Da Hacker News, una lista di tool carini basati sui dati Last.fm:
https://lastfmviz.netlify.app/ - shows what you've been listening to as a grid of album covers. You can scroll down as long as you want. It's cool to look back and remember where I was when listening to specific music.
https://lastfmstats.com/ - generates tons of rankings, line charts, racing bar charts, etc. A couple I like: "Artist streaks" (I listened to Pavement tracks 122 times in a row in August 2023), "Unique artists in a single month" (225 in July 2025) and "Unique weeks per artist/album/track" (good to identify what you're always listening to vs. what you listened to heavily in a specific time)
https://pmcdonough8133.github.io/last.timer/ - shows your listening rankings by hours, minutes instead of just scrobble count. This really should be a default feature in the site, as some artists have average track length 2-3x times of others.
Stupendo anche LastWave.
I worked as a developer at a company. I asked the business owner a question about a business task. He sent me a ChatGPT screenshot with the answer. I replied that it had nothing to do with my question and everything there was wrong. A minute later he sent me another ChatGPT screenshot. He didn’t even read the AI’s answer. He just took a screenshot and forwarded it to me.
I’m tired of talking to AI.
I want to talk to real people.
But even when I talk to people, they forward my questions to AI and send me the AI’s answer.
Da un post sul blog Orchidfiles.
Inizia a preoccuparmi l'impatto che l'AI sta avendo sulla creazione di contenuti di qualità. Gli incentivi per farlo si sono ridotti drasticamente (primo, tutti parlano di lavori che scompariranno, e allora perché uno dovrebbe impegnarsi nell'acquisire nuove competenze? secondo, il trend di riduzione del traffico ai siti web è ora molto evidente).
Dice Josh W. Comeau, che possiede un prolifico blog gratuito che fa da base per promuovere i suoi (straordinari) corsi:
I’ve spoken to a few course creators now, and we’re all seeing the same trend. Revenue down 50%+. Fewer people engaging with our content. People switching to LLMs, which slurp up all of our work and regurgitate it, without consent or compensation.
Esperienza simile quella di Stefan Judis, autore della bellissima newsletter Web Weekly, che dice:
This isn't the full graph but my blog traffic is down to a quarter from what it used to be. Web Weekly subscribers are stagnating at around 6.4k since the beginning of the year. Frankly, many others and I struggle and question if all this education, curation, writing, and speaking actually matters. And I honestly don't have an answer to that.
I, for one, enjoy a human touch. I enjoy craft and care. I enjoy the tiny details. I like the idea of a human putting in the work. Regardless of whether it's writing, speaking, coding... I'm online for seeing "the good stuff".
If everything is low effort, what's the point of it? If everything becomes generated, there's no need for creation. And maybe that's just the next era and I'm sentimental about the good old times [...].
AudioMass è un editor audio multitraccia gratuito e open source che funziona nel browser.
Agentic AI is a fascinating mirror. It can code as well as the user who drives it. If that user is a junior engineer, now you have a faster junior engineer. If the user is a staff engineer, now you have a faster staff engineer.
What agentic AI doesn’t do is magically convert a junior engineer into a staff engineer, because the user driving it still needs enough experience to know what a good solution looks like.
A staff engineer in the US at a large company a The Pragmatic Engineer.
Una chain of thought di Claude che dire che è surreale è poco:
In Italia il cliente non ha sempre ragione. Si è inceppata la concorrenza che porta al miglioramento del servizio ai client?
Uscito da queste esperienze mi sono chiesto: perché i commercianti italiani possono permettersi di guardare dall’alto in basso i clienti? Perché si sentono spesso in una posizione di autorità anziché di servizio? Le imprese cercano profitti, quindi hanno bisogno di clienti contenti. Dovrebbero trattarli bene. E noi clienti, se trattati male, dovremmo andarcene. La concorrenza dovrebbe fare il suo lavoro: premiare chi ci rispetta, punire chi ci umilia.
Railway e le avventure con Google Cloud:
Around 22:20 UTC, our Google Cloud account was placed into a "restricted" status hence removing all of our cloud overflow VMs, our CloudSQL instance, and our API. In removing our API, it removed a central dependency that affected all GCP host workloads, and then after our network route cache expired, then affecting all workloads hosted on the Railway platform.
Questi 13 prodotti Google hanno ciascuno più di 1 miliardo di utenti:
Google Search, Gmail, Android, Chrome e YouTube hanno ciascuno più di 3 miliardi di utenti:
Presumo si intenda utenti attivi mensili.
Gli utenti attivi di Gemini sono invece 900 milioni, quindi si presume più di ChatGPT.
Da Google I/O.
Andon Labs ha lasciato che Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini e Grok gestissero 4 stazioni radio decidendone tono e contenuti. È degenerata in tutti i casi, a riprova della fragilità fondamentale dell'architettura degli LLM, che ispira ben poca fiducia:
Never in modern history has technological progress hurt the overall demand for human labour.
[...] Yet history is not always a good guide to the future, as the Industrial Revolution itself showed. The top AI models are awesome. They can tackle much more complex coding tasks than people were predicting a year ago. The number of AI agents has exploded. Spending on AI by businesses is up dramatically. [...] There is no evidence yet in the labourmarket data of AI destroying many jobs. But given how fast it is improving, it would be rash to dismiss fears that it will. Society may be on the verge of a profound reallocation of resources, and political upheaval.
Dall'editoriale di copertina dell'Economist del 16 maggio 2026 ("Prepare for the worst").