Yesterday I organized a workshop with eleven interaction design students to explain how keyboard navigation and voice assistant technology works.
After teaching them how to use voice over / narrator shortcuts, the task was to navigate through SNCF connect website without screen and try to book a Lyon Marseille ticket for next Saturday under 40€, with an assistance dog during the travel.

Only one succeeded after an hour but didn't find where to put the dog🐕‍🦺⁉️. Three students from Singapour didn't find how to put the website in English on the main page after closing three pop-ups in French.

They shared their experience at the end, wrote down how they felt, they were mostly frustrated, exhausted, pissed off at not being able to do a task they usually do under 10min

I’ve been thinking about this for days. Incredible stochastic algorithm, gets more reliable the larger your input, incredibly fast, trivial to implement and deterministic on its inputs. It really has so much going for it.

(Via @jonathankoren )

https://www.reuters.com/investigations/ai-enters-operating-room-reports-arise-botched-surgeries-misidentified-body-2026-02-09/

Most allegedly involved errors in which the TruDi Navigation System misinformed surgeons about the location of their instruments while they were using them inside patients’ heads during operations.

I AM FUCKING SCREAMING I AM FUCKING SCREAMING I AM FUCKING SCREAMING

The rise and fall of Stack Overflow is a case in point of the parasitic nature of LLMs. LLMs feed their models on places like Stack Overflow to be useful to users, so users flock to them to avoid the eternal snarky comments and just get an answer to their problem right away. But this is a dead end. No new answers will be generated if no one uses Stack Overflow or similar places.

What goes for Stack Overflow goes essentially for the whole internet. Like a mold growing on food, consuming it, and dying once the food is gone - LLMs will kill large parts of the 'old' internet before long.

Paul Graham has been having a several months long “Are we the baddies?” moment on X.

Here he concedes that people have had their fears come to pass when it comes to tech billionaires misusing their wealth to capture political power.