Jeffrey P. Bigham

I Wrote This Essay With AI I Wrote This Essay With AI Jeffrey P. Bigham I wrote this essay with AI. Not this par t obviously. AI is not smart enough to mak emistakes like I do when I’m typing too fast, or on purpose to add a...

an essay to start the new school year --

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Meanwhile, the man who yelled "kill 'em" at rioters attacking police on Jan. 6 remains a "valued member of the Justice Department."

Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

i am willing to believe that i hang out in the upper echelon a bit, and there probably are a bunch of people with CS degrees to write boilerplate websites? but, if that's all you could after a computer science degree, then you probably didn't learn as much as you could have

The Tragedy of the Computer Science Major | National Review Turns out that learning how to code isn’t all it was cracked up to be.

i honestly just don't believe this. maybe the market wasn't what it once was, but how much is that just cost cutting and AI hype? as amazing as coding assistants and agents are, you still need a person who knows how to code to do most things.

www.nationalreview.com/2025/08/the-...

why are our leaders so dumb?

Ever had to write an email, message, or note while walking, cooking, or commuting but found dictation tools fall short?

StepWrite augments your ability to turn fleeting thoughts into structured text, hands-free and eyes-free. Our paper will be presented at #UIST2025 and the code is open source.

map of recommended detours through park

highway is closed today, as a warmup to next summer when it'll be closed for a whole month… google maps is directing folks through the tiny winding neighorhood/park roads, "official detour" is nowhere to be found… already a mess on a sunday, can't even imagine how bad this is gonna be!

With just a few messages, biased AI chatbots swayed people’s political views University of Washington researchers recruited self-identifying Democrats and Republicans to make political decisions with help from three versions of ChatGPT: a base model, one with liberal bias and....

Researchers (including some fantastic people at UW) found that chatbots can persuade people on political issues, and that they often do so by shifting the frames of the debate: www.washington.edu/news/2025/08...

i'm looking to hire someone who can give me wrong answers quite often but who presents them flawlessly and confidently

although i don't think we've even scratched the surface of how all we'll make use of all this, so good time to be an HCI and/or product person!

gpt5 sure seems like the clearest evidence yet of plateauing?

tacoma narrows half

GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out. Thomas Dohmke wrote that humans are often resistant to change. He said that's okay, but these people should probably find another profession.

is it actually a problem that developers aren't "embracing AI"? most people i talk to are like, "wow, this is super cool", when it is in fact useful… which isn't always, but also is true a bunch

www.businessinsider.com/github-ceo-d...

tired: genAI is fine
wired: we need to build whole massive efforts to help ensure that genAI doesn’t tell people to eat rocks
inspired: let’s put AI in nuclear weapons, for some reason that we’ll figure out later

yeah, that's a good framing. drivers are likely even more distracted at intersections, since everyone seems to pull their phones out at red lights, etc

But pedestrians navigating a landscape built for cars rightly perceive intersections as unsafe, too. On West Hudson, pedestrians who have pressed the button for a walk signal still must contend with fast-moving cars turning as they cross.

100% -- as a quite seasoned runner, including in cities, there are many places where i will avoid the intersections, as weird as that might sound. cars can be MORE distracted at intersections than they are on the straight parts of the road.

that's weird though, much more normal use of "outsider" is not the same as "underdog"

tariff surcharge: $2.00

i'm all in favor of calling out where tariffs are costing us additional money, but of course businesses are using them as another way to just sneak random undisclosed fees onto the final receipt … i guess it's for the shirt (or the glass i bought), not the actual run haha

probably, what else would people who hasn’t interacted with people before think would work haha

maybe instead of getting jobs, people will get jobs play acting jobs, and that can train the models

I think we are, people just interview only now, that is the job

Principles of inclusive app design - WWDC25 - Videos - Apple Developer Discover how understanding disability can help you create better apps for everyone. Find out how to make your apps more inclusive by...

thought this "Principles of Inclusive App Design" was a great Apple'y way to introduce accessibility -- lots of familiar topics, but simplified in an elegant way :)

developer.apple.com/videos/play/...

in addition to status seeking, top employers have used university attended as a shortcut in hiring. maybe somebody has done this analysis, but i think a lot of parents think those grades you got in math freshman year in high school actually do end up in reality affecting your lifetime earnings

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AI is doing job interviews now—but candidates say they'd rather risk staying unemployed than talk to another robot Job-seekers tell Fortune they’re outright refusing to do AI interviews, calling them dehumanizing and a red flag for bad company culture.

we gotta start building the AI that does the interviews for candidates fortune.com/2025/08/03/a...

Even better, require first years to take a combined intro to machine learning and decision theory, so they also get a sense of the potential gaps between good prediction and good decision-making

FEC records show Elizabeth Fago donated $1M to Trump's super PAC in April.

What happened next?

Three weeks later Trump pardoned her son, a nursing home executive who pleaded guilty to withholding millions from his workers' paychecks (while buying a luxury yacht).

Everything is for sale.

for real though, vance grew up in DAYTON OHIO. that is not appalachia, i don't care if he technically owns a plot of land in kentucky

old man yells at cloud is written on a newspaper ALT: old man yells at cloud is written on a newspaper

my sense is that it's gotta to be significantly more work to write CHI papers than it was 10 years ago. so many revisions, weird template war externalities, 17 different videos of different lengths, etc.

am i just an old man complaining, or do folks agree? #sigchi #chi2026

if you're gonna live so far away, it's gotta be cheaper in New Hampshire, no?