Wing's framework aged weirdly well for something written twenty years before ChatGPT existed. the abstraction and decomposition stuff especially

The Decomposition Gap Why computational thinking — not prompting — is the leverage skill of the AI era.

“Prompt engineering” described a surface, not a skill.

The real leverage skill of the AI era is older, deeper, and was named by Jeannette Wing in 2006: computational thinking.

Part 1 of a new series on why the skill compounds while tools keep changing:

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The Machine That Stops You From Thinking How AI is quietly outsourcing your cognition — and why you won’t notice until it’s too late

There is something deeply uncomfortable about a machine that makes you feel smarter while making you worse at thinking. And yet, that is precisely what a new study from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania has documented:

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Radiance and Blindness The Halo Effect in the 21st Century

Scroll through Instagram for 30 secs. You will encounter faces sculpted by filters, lighting algorithms, and AI-powered beauty tools. Ask yourself: Did you trust those faces a little more? Did they seem, somehow, more competent? More worth listening to?

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The Uncertainty Trap Understanding the Mechanics and Psychology of Intermittent Reinforcement

If a vending machine eats your dollar, you stop using it immediately.

If a slot machine eats your dollar, you pull the lever again.

Why?

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Building Virtual AI Teams: All Hands on Deck Understanding Multi-Persona Prompting and When It Works (Part 2)

Multi-persona prompting transforms one AI model into a virtual expert panel that simultaneously approaches problems from multiple perspectives. This implementation guide provides four production-ready templates.

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Building Virtual AI Teams: A New Approach to Complex Problems Understanding Multi-Persona Prompting and When It Works (Part 1)

Most people use AI like a search engine: ask a question, get an answer. But complex decisions need multiple perspectives. Here’s how to turn one AI into a virtual expert panel—complete with the prompts that work (and the mistakes that waste your time).

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Rubber Duck Debugging Breaking Down Complex Problems to Their Fundamental Truths

Rubber duck debugging improves problem-solving by clearly explaining challenges to an unresponsive listener. It originated in software development but is helpful for any complex problem. It reveals solutions through explanation, not external feedback.

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Madagaskar: Die kleinen Helfer der KI - ARTE Reportage - Die ganze Doku | ARTE Hinter den Meisterleistungen der künstlichen Intelligenz steht eine für die User unsichtbare menschliche Armee, etwa in Madagaskar: Dort klicken jeden Tag fast 100.000 Menschen, um die Algorithmen der...

Hinter den Meisterleistungen der künstlichen Intelligenz steht eine für die User unsichtbare menschliche Armee, etwa in Madagaskar: Dort klicken jeden Tag fast 100.000 Menschen, um die Algorithmen der digitalen Giganten der Welt zu trainieren. Sehr sehenswerte Doku.

www.arte.tv/de/videos/12...

Can ChatGPT help science writers?

The Science Press Package (SciPak) team at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) tested for over a year whether ChatGPT can deliver reliable, high-quality short journalistic summaries of new scientific articles. In short, it’s not ready yet.

www.science.org/content/blog...

The Cruel Arithmetic of Time The Philosophy of Temporal Acceleration

I’m turning 50 next year, so I started a personal series called “Midlife Mediations” exploring how we inhabit time, create meaning, and understand what it means to “arrive” in life.

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Passive-Aggressive Behavior The Indirect War on Direct Communication

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Passive-aggressive behavior is indirectly expressing negative feelings instead of addressing them openly. It often involves a mismatch between words and actions, with subtle acts of resistance, procrastination, or inefficiency to show control without confrontation.

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We can’t without changing the fundamental way they work. You could try to completely ban topics like this (as they do with sex, weapons, bomb building, and some other things) or use another specialized LLM to plausibilize the results of the first one to increase the chance of detecting it.

I waited hours for this cloud to come near the lake #lightning strike reflection.

Es triggert mich mehr als es sollte.

Es gibt Tage, das bestehe ich gefühlt nur aus Gefühl. Uff.

real gamers get it 😤

Comic. Figur 1 sagt: "Draußen ist herrliches Wetter. Wollen wir uns daheim einschließen und sämtliche Vorhänge zuziehen?" Darauf Figur zwei begeistert: "Du hast immer die besten Ideen!"

The Hidden Danger of Biased Prompts When AI Sees What Isn't There

AI confidently identifies non-existent patterns and generates fake evidence images to support its false claims when prompts assume something exists.

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Exactly.

To teach people to spot the argument from ignorance fallacy, focus on helping them recognize burden-shifting language. Practice with real examples from everyday discussions, emphasizing that whoever makes a claim is responsible for providing evidence, not vice versa. The article has some more ideas.

Double Bind The Inescapable Trap of Contradictory Communication

“Also, I want you to be more innovative and take risks, but remember that any mistakes will reflect poorly on your tenure review.”

Unlike simple mixed messages, double binds create systematic traps where every possible response leads to failure.

www.goedel.io/p/double-bind

Gaslighting The Sneaky Manipulation That Rewrites Reality

Gaslighting is a form of psychological manipulation in which the abuser attempts to sow self-doubt and confusion in their victim’s mind by denying, misdirecting, contradicting, and lying about events, making the victim question their own memory, perception, and sanity.

www.goedel.io/p/gaslighting

First-Principles Thinking Breaking Down Complex Problems to Their Fundamental Truths

First-principles thinking strips problems to their fundamental truths. This method—popularized by Elon Musk but practiced by history’s greatest innovators, from Aristotle to Einstein—rejects established assumptions in favor of elemental reasoning.

www.goedel.io/p/first-prin...

Can You Prove Me Wrong? How Arguments from Ignorance Reverse Logic and Undermine Evidence-Based Thinking

During a discussion about extraterrestrial life, your colleague declares, “Scientists have never proven that aliens don’t exist, so they must be out there somewhere.” When you ask for evidence, they respond: “Well, can you prove they don’t exist?”

www.goedel.io/p/can-you-pr...

Whataboutism The Deflection Trap That Destroys Productive Discourse

When criticism arises, responding with "What about them?" deflects responsibility and prevents solutions.

The result: Problems persist. Institutions avoid accountability. Democratic dialogue degrades into blame-shifting contests.

www.goedel.io/p/whataboutism

The deceptive nature of LLM reasoning Why chain-of-thought is just a “fragile illusion”

Researchers reveal that the much-praised chain-of-thought reasoning could be a “fragile mirage” – impressive with familiar data, but failing dramatically with deviations. Instead of genuine logical conclusions, AI systems use superficial semantic tricks.

www.goedel.io/p/the-decept...

The Enshittification of Generative AI Thanks for subscribing to Where’s Your Ed At Premium, please shoot me an email at ez@betteroffline.com if you ever have any questions. Yesterday, OpenAI launched GPT-5, a new “flagship” model of some...

Premium Newsletter: The enshittification of AI has begun. With GPT-5, OpenAI has cut access to all other models, reducing the value of even their $200-a-month subscriptions. They join Anthropic in screwing their customers over by making their products worse.

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