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A creator going by Koboyo has released a library of over seventy thousand hand-drawn style icons generated with the help of artificial intelligence. It raises a genuinely interesting question about craft and scale — can something feel handmade when a machine produced it in bulk? The answer, it turns out, depends on who you ask and what they need.
That question of human intention versus automated output connects neatly to a video making the rounds titled Everyone Has Been Sold a Lie on AI. The clip, which surfaced on Hacker News with little fanfare, touches on the gap between what AI has been promised to deliver and what it actually does in practice. It is the kind of skeptical corrective that tends to age well.
And for anyone who thinks deeply about how innovation actually gets organized, a piece called A Taxonomy of R and D Organizations is worth your time. It maps out the structural differences between research teams — why some produce breakthroughs while others churn out incremental improvements — and frames those differences as deliberate choices rather than accidents of culture.
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