Jackson Fox

I love a good nerdy usability blog post (thx Baymard)

tl;dr: Dropdowns kinda suck except in very limited and specific circumstances.

Reuters made a little game about Cozy Games (via NiemanLab)

Related, I don’t think I would have survived 2020 nearly as well without the Untitled Goose Game

Learning about DeepSeek today …

• This great FAQ from Ben Thompson digs into why this is big deal, why it might be good in the long run, and also provides a nice background on different reinforcement learning approaches.
• You’d be right to think DeepSeek, an AI model from a Chinese company, doesn’t want to talk about some things.
• DeepSeek was surprisingly cheap to train and is very cheap to use (compared to similar models from OpenAI and Anthropic).

Drew Breunig:

After plenty of discussions and tons of exploration, I think we can simplify the world of AI use cases into three simple, distinct buckets:

1. Gods: Super-intelligent, artificial entities that do things autonomously.
2. Interns: Supervised copilots that collaborate with experts, focusing on grunt work.
3. Cogs: Functions optimized to perform a single task extremely well, usually as part of a pipeline or interface.