Judging AIJune 9, 2026
The Confident Wrong Answer
Fluency and accuracy are unrelated in AI output, and human error-detection is tuned almost entirely to fluency. Here are the tells that survive that mismatch, and the ones that don't.
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Judging AIJune 9, 2026
When AI Is Better Than You — and When It Isn't
Ethan Mollick's new 'Co-Existence' frame replaces 'use AI more' with a harder question: on this specific task, right now, is AI actually better than you? The answer determines how much supervision you apply — and whether your own skills are quietly eroding.
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Systems & AdoptionJune 6, 2026
Your AI Budget Is Already Wrong. Here's How to Fix It.
Uber blew its annual AI budget in months. Simon Willison's $200 subscription runs $2,180 in compute. Anthropic's revenue went 5x in five months. If your team budgeted for AI tools in Q4, those numbers are already wrong — here's how to reset them.
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Judging AIJune 4, 2026
If You're Using One AI to Fact-Check, You're Not Fact-Checking
Research published last week showed frontier AI models disagree with each other on 67% of real-world fact-checking claims — 77% in legal contexts, 71% in health. A second model isn't verification. It's a second opinion that contradicts the first most of the time.
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Work & JudgementJune 3, 2026
Using AI as an Answer Machine Makes You Worse at Your Job. The Research Is Specific.
Three studies published in the same week show that how you use AI determines whether it sharpens or erodes your judgment. Turkish students scored better with AI help and worse without it. BCG consultants followed AI errors they would normally have caught. Taipei students who used AI as a tutor gained six to nine extra months of learning.
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Supervising AgentsJune 2, 2026
AI Agents Are Trading Real Stocks, Filing Real Taxes, and Reading Your Real Files. Here's the Permission Framework You Need.
Robinhood is trading stocks, Gemini Spark is running your calendar overnight, and a CVSS 9.3 vulnerability let five lines of text exfiltrate an entire M365 environment. Four questions to answer before you connect any AI agent to a real system.
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Work & JudgementMay 28, 2026
AI Is a Skill Multiplier, Not a Skill Replacement
Josh Comeau watched an expert developer triple their output with AI and watched beginners spend three hours prompting a model to solve something they fixed manually in 30 seconds. The difference wasn't the model. It was what each person brought to it.
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Directing AIMay 23, 2026
The Prompt Box Is Shrinking. The Skills That Fill It Aren't.
Google's AI Pointer and Gemini Rambler let you point, speak, and get results without typing a word. The syntax of prompting is being absorbed into the interface. The judgment behind it isn't.
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Supervising AgentsMay 8, 2026
What Your AI Tools Do Without Asking
VS Code silently stamped Copilot attribution on millions of commits this week — even when Copilot wasn't used. The instinct behind that decision is running in every AI tool you use at work.
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