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Deep Questions with Cal Newport — The AI Resistance is Forming. (Should You Join?)
Scout ratingSCOUT· 68%1h 11m·2026-09-14·Technology

The AI Resistance is Forming. (Should You Join?)

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

After a week spent debating AI’s impact on humanity, Cal wants to turn his attention back to AI’s impact on humans. To support this shift, he brings on the writer Brad Stulberg who recently decided that he was “done” with AI. They explore whether this is a resistance movement in the making… Video from today’s episode:…

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I'd argue that knowing your surroundings and how to navigate your city/region is a skill you shouldn't hand over to the machines. For long distance, infrequent trips, it's a useful tool. But for your immediate area, don't let the machines r…

@Ryan-Porter · YouTube comment

Programmer here. Forced to vibe code. My gain in knowhow went from learning about technologies and their minor bugs and how to write better code to learning to write a prompt. The code becomes a blackbox you know nothing about.

@risotto4728 · YouTube comment

I largely agree… but as someone who has spent their entire working life manipulating data and absolutely hates writing, saying that there is nothing meaningful in moving around an excel but writing is intrinsically valuable seems like it’s…

@FantasyZealot_ · YouTube comment

And by "AI", they mean "LLMs".

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