AI Snake Oil: latest AI & code stories | Accept All

Skip to content

Accept All すべて承認 /

AI Snake Oil

20 stories

AI agents can't yet do open-ended AI research

AI Snake OilVoicesAI agents can't yet do open-ended AI research Early evidence from two case studies

What will be left for us to work on?

AI Snake OilVoicesWhat will be left for us to work on? My keynote at ICML 2026

Up the Stack: How AI’s Escape From the Commodity Trap Risks Enterprise Lock-in

AI Snake OilVoicesUp the Stack: How AI’s Escape From the Commodity Trap Risks Enterprise Lock-in Critics and boosters are both looking in the wrong place

Why AI hasn’t replaced software engineers, and won’t

AI Snake OilVoicesWhy AI hasn’t replaced software engineers, and won’t Coding agents as normal technology

Did Google’s AI agents really build an operating system for $916?

AI Snake OilVoicesDid Google’s AI agents really build an operating system for $916? The importance of independent evaluation

Do AI Risks Require Extraordinary Government Intervention?

AI Snake OilVoicesDo AI Risks Require Extraordinary Government Intervention? Let’s not skip the hard work of AI governance

Open-world evaluations for measuring frontier AI capabilities

AI Snake OilVoicesOpen-world evaluations for measuring frontier AI capabilities Introducing CRUX, a new project for evaluating AI on long, messy tasks

New Paper: Towards a science of AI agent reliability

AI Snake OilVoicesNew Paper: Towards a science of AI agent reliability Quantifying the capability-reliability gap

AI Won’t Automatically Make Legal Services Cheaper

AI Snake OilVoicesAI Won’t Automatically Make Legal Services Cheaper Applying the AI as Normal Technology framework to legal services

Fact checking Moravec's paradox

AI Snake OilVoicesFact checking Moravec's paradox This famous aphorism is neither true nor useful

A guide to understanding AI as normal technology

AI Snake OilVoicesA guide to understanding AI as normal technology And a big change for this newsletter

Could AI slow science?

AI Snake OilVoicesCould AI slow science? Confronting the production-progress paradox

AGI is not a milestone

AI Snake OilVoicesAGI is not a milestone There is no capability threshold that will lead to sudden impacts

AI as Normal Technology

AI Snake OilVoicesAI as Normal Technology A new paper that we will expand into our next book

Is AI progress slowing down?

AI Snake OilVoicesIs AI progress slowing down? Making sense of recent technology trends and claims

We Looked at 78 Election Deepfakes. Political Misinformation is not an AI Problem.

AI Snake OilVoicesWe Looked at 78 Election Deepfakes. Political Misinformation is not an AI Problem. Technology Isn’t the Problem—or the Solution.

Does the UK’s liver transplant matching algorithm systematically exclude younger patients?

AI Snake OilVoicesDoes the UK’s liver transplant matching algorithm systematically exclude younger patients? Seemingly minor technical decisions can have life-or-death effects

FAQ about the book and our writing process

AI Snake OilVoicesFAQ about the book and our writing process What's in the book and how we wrote it

Can AI automate computational reproducibility?

AI Snake OilVoicesCan AI automate computational reproducibility? A new benchmark to measure the impact of AI on improving science

Start reading the AI Snake Oil book online

AI Snake OilVoicesStart reading the AI Snake Oil book online The book was published September 2024

On the calendar

予定 · Conferences and launch events, this week's stories from each corner of the industry, and what its press is covering — in English

On view

This week, from that corner the newest stories from the corner of the industry you picked

The wire their own posts, translated

How code moves in 2026 from the industry's own reports

Sources

Fetched every three hours, linked to the original

About

Accept All is a magazine, a radar and a diary about artificial intelligence and the craft of code — read from Tokyo, for people who build.

The name is the button. Code is written by agents now and reviewed by a human thumb that hovers over Accept all a hundred times a day; the whole question of this decade is what, exactly, you just accepted. So we read the diff. A magazine, because every week one model, one tool or one idea is worth reading about slowly. A radar, because we count what the labs, the Valley, GitHub and the chip makers are talking about — releases, agents, open weights, compute, funding, rules — and show it as it moves. A diary, because a seal is set each day in that day's colour, and the days add up.

We read the research labs' own posts, the American and European tech press, the Japanese and Chinese developer sites and the newsletters people actually forward, and bring it together in English and Japanese. Everything here links back to the people who wrote it; the images belong to their authors.

Accept All will keep changing. New sources, new signals, new ways of looking — a little better each week, never finished. If something here made you open a terminal, that is enough.

Thank you for reading. ありがとうございます。