thinking
33 stories and discussions about thinking, aggregated from every source we track.
On first principles thinking, learning to work with agents, and setting experience aside long enough to see a problem clearly.
How a community devoted to thinking clearly incubated salvation stories, abusive experiments, race science, and an affection for autocracy, and why that history matters now that its alumni are asking for the public…
Writing requires thinking, don't let an AI do the thinking for you.
In the very first paper session at CHI 2026, I found myself thinking, “I wish I wrote this paper!” And then I found myself thinking that a few times more. Since I’m on the hunt fo…
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Before the AI era, I wrote pretty long commit descriptions (or commit bodies) for major changes. It took me about five to ten minutes to draft and reread them to make sure I didn’t miss anything important. I did that…
How overusing AI for coding, strategy, and decisions can weaken human judgment, erode skills, and make us outsource too much of our thinking.
I'm going to a small academic workshop on design next week. This got me thinking of the various meanings of "design", which got me thinking about the various...
This post was inspired by the excellent “why I can’t stop thinking about Papua New Guinea and what I think everyone should know about it”
Using "think" to describe what an LLM does reminds me of the 16th century, when astronomers didn't really believe in the heliocentric model, but used it for calculations anyway because the math was simpler. We'll start…
There is growing concern that AI can blunt memory and reasoning. But science shows ways to keep the brain sharp.
Can't remember where I stumbled upon a SEO-type guide that was suggesting agent-optimization via a robot.txt-like file llms.txt which lives in the web root and helps agents use your site. Perfect, I thought, my…
Thinking coreutils. Contribute to aurorainfra/grev development by creating an account on GitHub.
General Motors once had the technology, talent, and partnership to lead the electric-vehicle revolution. Instead, it abandoned the EV1 and its battery venture while pouring billions into stock buybacks, helping turn an…
Thinking coreutils. Contribute to aurorainfra/grev development by creating an account on GitHub.
The second model in our ThinkingCap series. We took Qwen3.8-27B and cut how much it thinks, without changing the quality of the answers.
On first principles thinking, learning to work with agents, and setting experience aside long enough to see a problem clearly.
A modern LLM can spend most of its time doing something that looks almost embarrassingly simple: C...
In a fictional ancient Athens, a thinking machine asks a disarming question. Watch The Eighth Wonder, a four-minute captioned animated fable about intelligence and care.
Fast thinking models make you think slow again.