Chris Amico

About two months ago, my wife was out for a walk and stopped to talk with a man working in his yard. When he realized that she and I were married, he said:… More →

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Writing about AI, geo, culture, media, data, and the ways they interact. More →

We coined a new term on the Oxide and Friends podcast last month (primary credit to Adam Leventhal) covering the sense of psychological ennui leading into existential dread that many … More →

This piece by Margaret-Anne Storey is the best explanation of the term cognitive debt I've seen so far. Cognitive debt, a term gaining traction recently, instead communicates the notion that … More →

chrisamico shared this story from Roslindale: This is my neighborhood. This morning, on Corinth Street outside Family Dollar. They grabbed the driver, left the car in the middle of the street with the keys still in. Josh Muncey, who owns a real-estate... More →

The president took an oath to serve the American people. Instead, he’s focused his second term on enriching himself and his family. More →

This is the third in my annual series reviewing everything that happened in the LLM space over the past 12 months. For previous years see Stuff we figured out about … More →

chrisamico shared this story from Tom MacWright Micro. Data structures are the foundation of programming IDs are identifiers. Names are not identifiers. Do not use names as identifiers. The fewer databases you use the better. Consistency between... More →

In all of the debates about the value of AI-assistance in software development there’s one depressing anecdote that I keep on seeing: the junior engineer, empowered by some class of … More →

Do we still need libraries of 3rd party code when AI agents are this good? More →

I’ve started using the term HTML tools to refer to HTML applications that I’ve been building which combine HTML, JavaScript, and CSS in a single file and use them to … More →

chrisamico shared this story from Derek Willis. Of nearly all of the potential uses for Large Language Models, perhaps the best and most defensible is using them to write code. During the recently-completed fall semester, I co-taught a Computer... More →

Explore motifs from Hamilton, Wicked, and Les Misérables. More →

The nonprofit research group Epoch AI is tracking the physical imprint of the technology that’s changing the world. More →

chrisamico shared this story . Credit...Jonno Rattman for The New York TimesHe Was a Supreme Court Lawyer. Then His Double Life Caught Up With Him.Thomas Goldstein was a superstar in the legal world. He was also a secret high-stakes gambler, whose... More →

[Opens front door while holding a toy corgi in one arm] Merry Christmas! Oh my God, you made it! I thought you might be stuck at the airport for weeks! Well, because it’s such madness out there. Piper here won’t eat his treats; he can feel the tension... More →

chrisamico shared this story from Roslindale. 1966 proposal for Orange growth: Start with extension to West Roxbury, with eventual branches to Needham, Norwood and Canton (thinner dotted lines are commuter-rail lines). WBUR reports that the latest... More →

Jimmy Lai, the former Hong Kong media mogul and outspoken critic of Beijing, has been convicted in a landmark national security trial in the city’s court. More →

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chrisamico shared this story . President Trump is wielding one of the most sweeping of presidential powers—clemency—far differently in his second term than in his first.In the first year of his first term, Trump granted one pardon and commuted one... More →