Unlike the early web, which workers eagerly adopted and forced onto bosses, today's AI requires bosses to force usage onto reluctant workers and young people. Doctorow argues AI has "dogshit unit economics," becoming less profitable per user, the opposite of the web's trajectory.
The curl project faces unprecedented pressure from a 4-5x surge in AI-assisted security reports, averaging over one per day. The workload has strained the team, with Stenberg noting his wife's concerns about his hours for the first time. Found vulnerabilities remain low or medium severity.
A Star Trek parody tweet by Kyle Ferrana reimagines the classic "shields up" scene as an analogy for AI safety failures, where Data acknowledges a known risk—raising shields could reduce damage—but chooses not to act, resulting in hull breaches.