Eugene Yiga
@eugeneyiga.bsky.social
AI Education Specialist | Curriculum Designer | Data Science (Michigan) | International journalist with 1400+ bylines in 100+ publications | Helping organisations navigate AI transformation | Barcelona 🇪🇸 🇪🇺
For decades, we thought coding was the hard part. It turns out describing what to build is harder. When AI generates code, the valuable skill becomes specifying intent with precision. Systems thinking over syntax. www.linkedin.com/posts/eugene... via #McKinsey #vibecoding #AIcoding
#mckinsey | Eugene K. Yiga
Last week, I wrote about the AI job market: why the panic is overblown, and what it takes to get hired in tech right now. But once you land the role, how do you actually grow?
Two #McKinsey interview...
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December 15, 2025 at 6:38 AM
For decades, we thought coding was the hard part. It turns out describing what to build is harder. When AI generates code, the valuable skill becomes specifying intent with precision. Systems thinking over syntax. www.linkedin.com/posts/eugene... via #McKinsey #vibecoding #AIcoding
#nowreading #dorrislessing #thegrassissinging #saturdayvibes #saturdayfeeling #inspirationalquotes #motivationalquotes #inspiration #motivation
December 13, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Entry-level tech jobs now require mid-level skills. The tasks that used to train juniors are handled by #AI. Two podcasts on what actually works: build real systems, develop rare skill intersections, prove you can ship. www.linkedin.com/posts/eugene... via @practicalai.bsky.social #ML
#ai #netflix | Eugene K. Yiga
Yesterday I wrote about how #AI isn't the main cause of current job market woes. But early-career tech workers are genuinely struggling, and that deserves a closer look.
Two recent podcasts offer pra...
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December 12, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Entry-level tech jobs now require mid-level skills. The tasks that used to train juniors are handled by #AI. Two podcasts on what actually works: build real systems, develop rare skill intersections, prove you can ship. www.linkedin.com/posts/eugene... via @practicalai.bsky.social #ML
Tech CEOs keep predicting an #AI job apocalypse. The data tells a different story. Workers most exposed to AI saw unemployment rise 0.3 percentage points. Least exposed? Nearly 1 full point. Yes, the job market is tough, but AI isn't the main culprit. www.linkedin.com/posts/eugene...
#samaltman #darioamodei #elonmusk #theeconomist #siliconvalley | Eugene K. Yiga
The job market is rough right now. But is AI really to blame?
#SamAltman warns that "entire classes of jobs will go away." #DarioAmodei predicts AI could wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar...
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December 11, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Tech CEOs keep predicting an #AI job apocalypse. The data tells a different story. Workers most exposed to AI saw unemployment rise 0.3 percentage points. Least exposed? Nearly 1 full point. Yes, the job market is tough, but AI isn't the main culprit. www.linkedin.com/posts/eugene...
Two pieces, same Caltrain route, opposite stories. 15-minute funding decisions vs exhausted researchers and models exhibiting "shutdown resistance." Speed became the strategy and the excuse. www.linkedin.com/posts/eugene... #AIsafety #AIbubble #SiliconValley
#siliconvalley | Eugene K. Yiga
Two recent pieces tell the same story from opposite angles.
Erin Griffith at The New York Times describes investors making funding decisions in 15 minutes. Some are taking founders weightlifting to c...
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December 10, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Two pieces, same Caltrain route, opposite stories. 15-minute funding decisions vs exhausted researchers and models exhibiting "shutdown resistance." Speed became the strategy and the excuse. www.linkedin.com/posts/eugene... #AIsafety #AIbubble #SiliconValley
A new art project in off-radar #Matarraña unites wild landscapes, architectural holiday homes and a modern sculpture trail in perfect harmony. www.thetimes.com/travel/desti... via @thetimes.com #TravelTuesday #Spain #Aragon
The brutalist beauty of Aragon: Spain’s edgiest escape
A new art project in off-radar Matarraña unites wild landscapes, architectural holiday homes and a modern sculpture trail in perfect harmony
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December 9, 2025 at 6:18 AM
A new art project in off-radar #Matarraña unites wild landscapes, architectural holiday homes and a modern sculpture trail in perfect harmony. www.thetimes.com/travel/desti... via @thetimes.com #TravelTuesday #Spain #Aragon
#AIsafety has an insularity problem but also a communications problem. Even when researchers try to engage the public, they speak in technical abstractions about billions of future lives. Climate science learned to tell human stories. AI safety hasn't yet. www.transformernews.ai/p/the-perils...
The perils of AI safety’s insularity
By building their own intellectual ecosystem, researchers worried about existential AI risk shed academia's baggage — and, perhaps, some of its strengths
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December 8, 2025 at 6:43 AM
#AIsafety has an insularity problem but also a communications problem. Even when researchers try to engage the public, they speak in technical abstractions about billions of future lives. Climate science learned to tell human stories. AI safety hasn't yet. www.transformernews.ai/p/the-perils...
#nowreading #harukimuramaki #kafkaontheshore #sundayvibes #sundayfeeling #inspirationalquotes #motivationalquotes #inspiration #motivation
December 7, 2025 at 5:18 AM
#nowreading #harukumurakami #kafkaontheshore #saturdayvibes #saturdayfeeling #inspirationalquotes #motivationalquotes #inspiration #motivation
December 6, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Individuals are moving fast, companies are moving slow, and nobody's quite sure what "good" looks like yet because we're working with trailing data while the technology keeps accelerating. practicalai.fm/331 via @practicalai.bsky.social #generativeAI #artificialintelligence
Practical AI | The impact of AI on the workforce: A state-level case study
Daniel sits down with Chelsea Linder, VP of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at TechPoint, to explore the what AI innovation and impact look like on the ground. They discuss Chelsea's journey from ...
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December 5, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Individuals are moving fast, companies are moving slow, and nobody's quite sure what "good" looks like yet because we're working with trailing data while the technology keeps accelerating. practicalai.fm/331 via @practicalai.bsky.social #generativeAI #artificialintelligence
If wealthy countries with strong literacy rates and institutional capacity struggle with productive adoption, expecting #AI to automatically democratise knowledge in contexts with weaker foundations misses what makes technology transformative. www.economist.com/finance-and-... #chatgpt
Can AI make the poor world richer?
It promises a level playing field. So have past technologies
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December 4, 2025 at 6:32 AM
If wealthy countries with strong literacy rates and institutional capacity struggle with productive adoption, expecting #AI to automatically democratise knowledge in contexts with weaker foundations misses what makes technology transformative. www.economist.com/finance-and-... #chatgpt
The publishers who cling to old models or fight #AI entirely may find themselves in the same position as newsrooms that resisted the internet. www.eugeneyiga.com/wp-content/u...
December 3, 2025 at 11:04 AM
The publishers who cling to old models or fight #AI entirely may find themselves in the same position as newsrooms that resisted the internet. www.eugeneyiga.com/wp-content/u...
Today's #TravelTuesday post is the @catalannews.com podcast on quality #tourism in #Barcelona www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sskj...
Quality tourism in Barcelona – promise or illusion?
YouTube video by Catalan News
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December 2, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Today's #TravelTuesday post is the @catalannews.com podcast on quality #tourism in #Barcelona www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sskj...
My latest newsletter features a curated list of my best #Blinkist guides and #SethGodin quotes on #challenges, #failure, and #mistakes. www.eugeneyiga.com/how-to-overc... #MondayMotivation #motivation #inspiration #motivationalquotes #inspirationalquotes @blinkist.bsky.social
How to overcome challenges, recover from failure, and fix your mistakes in 2025
Have you achieved your big goals for this year?
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December 1, 2025 at 6:25 AM
My latest newsletter features a curated list of my best #Blinkist guides and #SethGodin quotes on #challenges, #failure, and #mistakes. www.eugeneyiga.com/how-to-overc... #MondayMotivation #motivation #inspiration #motivationalquotes #inspirationalquotes @blinkist.bsky.social
#nowreading #harukimuramaki #kafkaontheshore #sundayvibes #sundayfeeling #inspirationalquotes #motivationalquotes #inspiration #motivation
November 30, 2025 at 6:16 AM
#nowreading #harukumurakami #kafkaontheshore #saturdayvibes #saturdayfeeling #inspirationalquotes #motivationalquotes #inspiration #motivation
November 29, 2025 at 5:29 AM
I have a letter in #TheEconomist this week about something I've been tracking closely: the breakdown of #AI in hiring. The evidence is damning. Read the full post on #LinkedIn. www.linkedin.com/posts/eugene...
#theeconomist #ai #chatgpt #coverletters #mckinsey #aihiring #futureofwork #recruitment #artificialintelligence | Eugene K. Yiga
I have a letter in #TheEconomist this week about the breakdown of #AI in hiring. And the evidence is damning.
Journalist Hilke Schellmann tested AI interview platforms (as reported on NPR's TED Radio...
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November 28, 2025 at 6:38 AM
I have a letter in #TheEconomist this week about something I've been tracking closely: the breakdown of #AI in hiring. The evidence is damning. Read the full post on #LinkedIn. www.linkedin.com/posts/eugene...
The fear narrative (AI will destroy jobs) and the hype narrative (AI is transforming everything) both assume massive, immediate economic impact. The actual data suggests something more modest. www.economist.com/finance-and-... #artificialintelligence #aibubble
The world economy shrugs off both the trade war and AI fears
Can anything bring it down?
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November 27, 2025 at 6:29 AM
The fear narrative (AI will destroy jobs) and the hype narrative (AI is transforming everything) both assume massive, immediate economic impact. The actual data suggests something more modest. www.economist.com/finance-and-... #artificialintelligence #aibubble
The instinct is to build something you're proud of before showing anyone but that's precisely when you've invested too much to hear criticism well. The earlier you get stakeholder input, the more it feels like collaboration. www.storytellingwithdata.com/podcast/why-... #dataviz #datavisualization
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November 26, 2025 at 6:46 AM
The instinct is to build something you're proud of before showing anyone but that's precisely when you've invested too much to hear criticism well. The earlier you get stakeholder input, the more it feels like collaboration. www.storytellingwithdata.com/podcast/why-... #dataviz #datavisualization
The Luddite position ("these tools are worthless") wastes opportunity. The surrender position ("let #AI handle it") produces mediocre outputs. The middle ground requires more effort but delivers. youarenotsosmart.com/2024/02/19/y... via @davidmcraney.bsky.social #artificialintelligence #chatgpt
YANSS 281 – How a pernicious cognitive bias limits our ability to use chatbots properly (and how to overcome it)
Jeremy Utley, Kian Gohar, and Henrik Werdelin sit down with David McRaney to discuss the surprising results of a new study into what happens when groups of people work together to brainstorm soluti…
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November 24, 2025 at 6:36 AM
The Luddite position ("these tools are worthless") wastes opportunity. The surrender position ("let #AI handle it") produces mediocre outputs. The middle ground requires more effort but delivers. youarenotsosmart.com/2024/02/19/y... via @davidmcraney.bsky.social #artificialintelligence #chatgpt
Daniel Whitenack and Rajiv Shah talk through what happens after you build your first RAG demo on this Practical AI episode, and it lines up with what I see constantly when developing curriculum or working with companies. practicalai.fm/330 via @practicalai.bsky.social #RAGpipelines
Practical AI | We've all done RAG, now what?
Longtime friend of the show Rajiv Shah returns to unpack lessons from a year of building retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines and reasoning models integrations. We dive into why so many A...
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November 23, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Daniel Whitenack and Rajiv Shah talk through what happens after you build your first RAG demo on this Practical AI episode, and it lines up with what I see constantly when developing curriculum or working with companies. practicalai.fm/330 via @practicalai.bsky.social #RAGpipelines
#nowreading #flannobrien #thepoormouth #saturdayvibes #saturdayfeeling #inspirationalquotes #motivationalquotes #inspiration #motivation
November 22, 2025 at 5:34 AM
#TheEconomist has a piece on the competitive dynamic between AI labs and the apps built on their models. The question: will the labs eventually devour the apps that depend on them? www.economist.com/business/202...
OpenAI and Anthropic v app developers: tech’s Cronos syndrome
Will the labs devour the apps that run on their models?
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November 21, 2025 at 6:22 AM
#TheEconomist has a piece on the competitive dynamic between AI labs and the apps built on their models. The question: will the labs eventually devour the apps that depend on them? www.economist.com/business/202...
Who wins and loses when #AI floods the internet with content? More content doesn't mean more winners; it means bigger winners and many more who struggle to be noticed. www.economist.com/business/202... #AIslop #AIart
Sloponomics: who wins and loses in the AI-content flood?
Against all odds, the deluge might be good for creators
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November 20, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Who wins and loses when #AI floods the internet with content? More content doesn't mean more winners; it means bigger winners and many more who struggle to be noticed. www.economist.com/business/202... #AIslop #AIart