Some articles I read in 2025
These are some articles (or videos, or podcasts) that I read last year that stayed in my minde afterwards. The most common topic is what everyone is into now.
The Reverse Centaur (Cory Doctorow)
https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/11/vulgar-thatcherism/#there-is-an-alternative
Explains why some have life easier, some have it miserable with the Generative AI revolution.
Why ChatGPT Can’t Draw a Full Glass of Wine (Alex O’Connor)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=160F8F8mXlo
There are many articles about this and similar findings. But the author - great channel, as cool existencialist stuff - takes an extra step to
Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant (Bret Devereaux)
https://acoup.blog/2025/07/11/collections-life-work-death-and-the-peasant-part-i-households/
The lesson learned is the usual in history: the ancient people were not less intelligent or skilled than us, were just more adapted to the current reality and paradigm. The author has other great long history articles, for example about bread and iron making.
The Pelikan on a Bike series
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/6/six-months-in-llms/
Started before than 2024, but continued in 2025. The blog is great to keep the higher view of what is happening in LLM world from the product PoV.
Draw a fish site, and post-morten
https://aldenhallak.com/blog/posts/draw-a-fish-postmortem.html
The autor vibe coded a website, there was a vulnerability, and the obvious happened.
Great humourus write, tells what can happens with vibe coded efforts.