The "mechanical miracle" that ruined Mark Twain's life
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resobscura.substack.com
IrregularChat: AI & Autonomy
1w ago
Mark Twain’s disastrous investment in the Paige Compositor, a highly complex typesetting machine, became a cautionary tale about automation, invention, and misplaced faith in technological progress. T
The piece is a highly sarcastic, profanity-heavy critique of corporate AI hype. The author, who has a background in data science, argues that most companies do not need to “roll out AI” because they l
The bottleneck was never the code
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thetypicalset.com
IrregularChat: Full Stack Dev
May 6
The article argues that coding agents are not mainly changing software by making individual developers faster, but by shifting the real bottleneck from writing code to coordinating what code should be