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2026-06-16 Tue

Lessons Learned from Mollick's Choosing to Stay Human
- I recently read Ethan Mollick's Choosing to Stay Human (One Useful Thing) and I was reminded about a distinction between
- Cognitive offloading - using tools to extend what you can do (notes, calculators, search). Historically benign, often beneficial.
- Cognitive surrender - when the tool does your thinking and you stop trying. Mollick mentions a BCG consultant study where professional consultants abandoned critical thinking when AI gave confident-sounding wrong answers. This implies that the "default" interaction with AI seems to be one of cognitive surrender rather than cognitive offloading
- He talks about two separate papers from the same Wharton team (Bastani et al.) reach apparently opposite conclusions w.r.t AI's ability to help learning:
- AI is detrimental to learning - Turkish high school math - ChatGPT for homework → better homework scores, worse unassisted test performance. Shortcutting the struggle shortcutted the learning.
- AI can help learning if it produces optimal friction - Taipei Python course - have AI sequence practice problems matched to student knowledge state) → +0.15 standard deviation on final exams, ≈ 6–9 months of schooling. Same researchers, different outcome.
- Mollick mentions that people regularly report that they learn more from entertaining lectures, even if they actually learn more from doing hard problems and quotes a paper Measuring actual learning vs feeling of learning in response to being actively engaged in the classroom.
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- LangSmith Agent Builder has been rebranded to LangSmith/Fleet - https://docs.langchain.com/langsmith/fleet/index
- LangSmith/Fleet depends on the OpenAI chat completions spec or Anthropic chat spec for custom models - https://docs.langchain.com/langsmith/fleet/essentials#custom-models

2026-06-15 Mon

Managed to setup my Logseq/Flashcards on my iPhone for the first time. A bit tricky to set up, then works okay. almost too slow to be useful in this garden on iphone; it's too big. Also, the favorites buttons don't work on iPhone AFAICT. I added LFRF as an alias to Logseq/Flashcard/Review/Favorite so that on iPhone I can search for that acronym instead.
- TODO import into garden For iOS iPadOS users (Working Copy) · charliie-dev/Logseq-Git-Sync-101 Wiki
Microsoft's Person/Satya Nadella is building himself a personal context portfolio that includes discussions from others at MS
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqEZyHkXgh0&t=1460s
- "... the one thing that I recently built was ... a repo that is in sync all ... with discussions that are happening out of band that I am not in. ... the ability ... to have an agent that ... is looking at all the work discussions that may be related to your repo and creating the plan and executing the plan. ... all I did was I put WorkIQ, which is the database underneath all of Microsoft 365 as an MCP server and to my coding agent. And I said, "keep watching that. And every time people discuss this repo, please change my repo." And it keeps working. And so this is the best way to keep your basically a model, you know, in sync with all requirements that ever come up.
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2026-06-14 Sun

more CLI/Craftsmanship study.
Today I asked Claude/Code to look up something related to the docs, and it came up with https://code.claude.com/docs/en/claude-directory.md, which is a bizarre file, a mishmash of yaml, html, markdown. I can tell it's part of some LLM-centric routing system, but it's hard to figure out the system that's at work here. Instead of Markdown backticks for code sections, it uses <C> and </C>. Very strange! What's even weirder is that claude said it couldn't resolve that link "from here" and that "The Claude Code docs are also browsable from within the app via /help, which would be cool if it were true. That's actually just a TUI page that links to the web documentation.
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- entity standardization
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2026-06-13 Sat

I finally disabled oh-my-tmux so I can start to learn the default tmux/Keyshort. Now I'm confused all the time, lol. I really found those vim keybindings handy.
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