Heya and welcome back to Five Things AI!
This week is all about the shifting tides of technology and its fallout. Chris Messina argues that code has become a commodity, and that’s spot-on — software is now as ubiquitous as water, changing how we build and value digital products. Then there’s a fascinating twist from CNN showing that jobs most exposed to AI actually saw higher wage growth, which completely flips the “AI kills jobs” narrative - and I am not so certain that this will stay this way at all. Over at The Verge, we see the industry’s latest marketing spin — companies now rebranding AGI to dodge overhyped expectations, but hey, lipstick on a pig and all that. Wes McKinney writes brilliantly about LLMs’ strange mix of genius and failure — I can relate, it’s magic until a missing parenthesis breaks everything. And finally, Indiana’s data center gold rush raises the question of who really benefits — locals see big concrete boxes sucking up power and water, not progress. The future keeps getting coded, rebranded, debugged, and powered — all at once.
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