joanne mcneil on Nostr: Right now, tech coverage is overwhelming culture / trends-based or focused on product ...

Right now, tech coverage is overwhelming culture / trends-based or focused on product reviews because careful reporting on a technical level is enormously time consuming—and publications do not prioritize rigor.

I talked a little bit about this several years ago in the run up to the AI boom:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/25/ai-artificial-intelligence-social-media-bots-wrong