A Brookings researcher just gave the worry a name: cognitive stunting. Adults lose skills they once built. Kids risk never building them. But the fix isn't banning AI, it's protecting the struggle. A parent's take on what to teach before the prompting starts.
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Snapchat just launched ads you can talk to, dropped into the same chat feed where kids message their friends. The danger was never that AI lies to kids. It is that it is nice to them, on purpose, for money. A parent's field guide to the AI already hiding in your kid's apps.
The American response to AI and children is a Senate bill. The European one is already a regulation. It just hasn't started working yet.
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When teens talk to AI more than they talk to anyone else.
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While parents fret over screen time, teens are forming emotional bonds with AI chatbots like Character.AI, which offer endless availability and understanding. As these virtual relationships replace human connections, the implications for adolescent emotional development are profound and concerning.
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A coalition of child development experts is urging YouTube to halt "AI slop"—low-quality, AI-generated videos targeting kids. These videos, designed to maximize engagement, can harm cognitive development and emotional well-being. Parents are encouraged to recognize and avoid such content to protect
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A friend tossed out an idea on the way to a ski trip. I opened Claude on my phone. By the time we crossed the border, a working TradingView indicator was running. No Pine Script experience needed — just a clear idea and the right tool.
Practical skills for a future where supply is infinite
AI "nudify" apps can turn any photo into a fake nude in seconds. As a dad with three daughters, I'm not waiting for schools to figure this out. Here's what I'm actually doing — and what I wish someone had told me six months ago.
And what to ask instead in a world where AI changes everything
Indeed is changing the rules. Employers connecting their ATS must now share disposition data — information about what happens to candidates after they apply.
Developing with craft, clarity & care.
Your 12-year-old comes home from school and casually mentions that their friend got "different" search results when looking up "CEO" or "nurse" on Google Images. They're puzzled. You're... well, you should be too.
How AI agents are quietly changing the way we work.
The prohibition paradox strikes again.
Your teenager just turned in a history essay that sounds suspiciously sophisticated. Your middle schooler created digital art that looks professionally polished and won't quite explain how. If you're wondering whether your kids are using AI tools, here's the uncomfortable truth: they are.
You built a SaaS. Ten customers, each paying for ten seats. Business is good. Then one of them calls and says, "Hey, we replaced eight employees with AI agents. Can we downgrade to two seats?"
Laravel 13 drops March 17th, and the tech blogs are already flooding with "Complete Guide to ALL New Features" posts. Instead of another exhaustive changelog walkthrough, here's what actually matters for your daily workflow.
Three months ago, I felt like a productivity superhero. ChatGPT helped me draft emails, GitHub Copilot accelerated my coding, and Claude assisted with research. I was cranking out work faster than ever before. Then something shifted.
Last week I watched an AI agent book a restaurant, check a calendar for conflicts, draft a confirmation message, and send it all in one go. No Zapier. No n8n. No "connect your accounts" OAuth dance. Just an agent talking to four MCP servers like it was the most normal thing in the world.
I caught myself refreshing Claude Code at 12 AM last Tuesday. Not for work. Not for anything urgent. Just checking if it was back online after a brief outage. That's when I realized I might have a problem. Well, sort of. Calling it a "problem" feels a bit black and white to me. But that moment of...
A kid asked ChatGPT to name the second longest river in Europe. It confidently described one that doesn't exist, complete with kilometers and countries. She copied it straight into her assignment. AI hallucinations hit different when kids can't tell the difference.
Last Monday, Caleb Porzio launched Blaze at the Laravel Worldwide Meetup. He rendered 25,000 Flux buttons in 6 milliseconds. The same page without Blaze? 1,333 milliseconds.
Try this: figure out the e-invoicing requirements for sending a B2B invoice from the Netherlands to Italy. Go ahead. I'll wait. You'll end up with 14 browser tabs, three conflicting PDFs from 2019, and a growing suspicion that the EU designed this system specifically to punish