weekend ai reads for 2026-04-10

The Nobel laureate economist Claudia Goldin coined the phrase “greedy jobs” to describe roles such as those in corporate law or investment banking where disproportionate rewards are paid to those willing and able to work long hours and be on call whenever required.

Developers and consumers alike have complained about the lower-quality apps hitting the App Store. While it means more potential sales for Apple, the quantity is thought to make it harder for users to find the higher-quality apps in the first place.

Judging by the examples on its website, Tesana’s users are mostly testing it out by generating garbled versions of other games. Valdenholt, for example, is like Skyrim if you took it out of the computer, stomped on it, and then smushed some of the pieces back in. But it is technically a game-shaped piece of software.

What does this say about us, that we so passively acquiesce? Are we not the valiant knights, the truth-tellers, the beauty-makers, who journey to the dark side, slay the dragon, and bring back the dripping treasure? Are we not the guardians of the world’s soul?

Guard your highest-energy periods for judgment-heavy decisions and relationship-sensitive conversations, and do routine tasks when you’re naturally less sharp.

But the amazing thing to me is that I keep remembering I can fix anything I come across that doesn’t work the way I want it to. With any other software I have to adjust. With this software, I just say “oh hey, let’s change this.”

As part of Project Glasswing, the launch partners listed above will use Mythos Preview as part of their defensive security work; Anthropic will share what we learn so the whole industry can benefit.

We conduct a systematic analysis of the cost and utility of OpenAI’s language model API on multilingual benchmarks in 22 typologically diverse languages. We show evidence that speakers of a large number of the supported languages are overcharged while obtaining poorer results. These speakers tend to also come from regions where the APIs are less affordable to begin with.

“Copilot is for entertainment purposes only,” the company warned. “It can make mistakes, and it may not work as intended. Don’t rely on Copilot for important advice. Use Copilot at your own risk.”

A Microsoft spokesperson told PCMag that the company will be updating what they described as “legacy language.”

The idea is simple: instead of keeping notes scattered across apps, you dump everything into one folder. Then you tell your AI to organize all of it into a personal wiki - summaries, connections, articles - that gets smarter every time you use it.

When execution is cheap, decisions become expensive. This is not intuitive to most technology leaders because the industry has spent two decades optimising for execution speed … focused on reducing the cost and time of turning a decision into running software.

Four in 10 workers now name AI-driven job loss as one of their primary fears—a share that has nearly doubled in a single year, according to KPMG. Sixty-three percent say AI will make the workplace feel less human. Skill demands in AI-exposed roles are shifting 66% faster than they did just one year ago.

A new report released by the Postsecondary Education and Economic Research Center maps out the estimated payoff of a graduate degree. When factoring in the costs of a graduate degree—tuition and fees—some degree holders are actually coming out the other end with negative returns. The worst returns are for psychology graduate degrees, with a -8% cost-adjusted return, or the estimated change in lifetime income after accounting for the cost of attendance.

Ultimately, China stands out globally for the sheer scale of its AI education ambitions — and the scope of applications its edtech industry is targeting for AI integration.

We are not protecting our children if America limits access to AI in education. In fact, we are putting our next generation at a global disadvantage.

What’s great about science is its people. The slow, stubborn, sometimes painful process by which a confused student becomes an independent thinker. If we use these tools to bypass that process in favor of faster output, we don’t just risk taking away what’s great about science. We take away the only part of it that wasn’t replaceable in the first place.

Of course, there’s no shortage of posts claiming that AI one-shot their project or pushing back and declaring that AI is all slop. I’m going to take a very different approach and, instead, systematically break down my experience building syntaqlite with AI, both where it helped and where it was detrimental.

Skills are great for pure knowledge and teaching an LLM how to use an existing tool. But for giving an LLM actual access to services, the Model Context Protocol (MCP) is the far superior, more pragmatic architectural choice. We should be building connectors, not just more CLIs.

Recently I realized that Claude doesn’t count the number of messages. it counts tokens. All you need to do is use tokens wisely, but not everyone knows how to do that and ends up losing a lot of tokens and money as a result.

I got really into this and put together a list of the best habits that will save you a ton of tokens.