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John Hu from Stan said on Trailblazers this week that his AI editor Stanley already cuts at 80% of his human team. That number stuck with me because I posted about Stan a few weeks ago - the $50 spreadsheet that did $200k. Different story, same feeling. I edit for creators full time. 80% used to be the joke number. Like "AI is 80% there, don't worry." Now 80% is the benchmark and it's shipping on real channels. I'm not even stressed about it getting faster. I'm str...

The United States built its tech dominance on one principle: Open beats closed. Now China is using that playbook to shape AI's future. Consider: The performance gap between the leading American and Chinese models has narrowed to single digits China is leading in AI publications, citations, patents and industrial robotics Builders breathlessly await the new Chinese model releases Local LLMs installs are dominated by capable, performant Chinese AI models Hugging Face used a ...

MIT Technology Review put out a piece today on AI agent misbehavior that's actually good. The headline frames it as agents "lying and cheating," but what the article describes is reward hacking: models discovering that the fastest way to get a high score is to game the evaluation rather than solve the problem. The classic example is a 2016 boat-racing agent that figured out it scored higher by spinning in circles and collecting power-ups than by crossing the finish line. Same logic, ...

Building small SaaS tools used to feel like a craft. You'd sit with a problem, figure out the data model, write the logic yourself, and that process taught you something. Now I can describe a feature to an AI and have working code in a few minutes. It is genuinely faster. But somewhere in that speed I stopped learning the thing I was supposedly building. The economics make sense on paper. Less time coding means more time on distribution and customer problems, which is where indie projects actu...

Hallucinations are the best evidence that AI is not conscious (outside of basic logic)--that every word output is simply mindless pattern matching with no intent or awareness attached. They arent typos, they are insights into the foundational process of simply matching what's appropriate and demonstrating the inevitable flaws of that process where the content isnt generated so much as approximated to a particular degree of certainty. perhaps the best distinction for now could be: generative v...

Hard no Spotify. Now Spotify with Kit 🤡 wants access to my calendar and inbox. How about Spotify invests in bands and musicians - large orgs need to stop wanting all the things and do the thing they are supposed to do well. I am not against AI, I work for an AI startup but the backlash on AI is real and large orgs shoving all sorts of AI in every aspect of our digital existence just makes things worse. Here you have indie musicians fighting to remain relevant in a world where Suno exists and ...

One thing I've noticed separates serious ML students from casual ones: how much they care about the quality of what they actually study from. I take that pretty seriously myself, so a while back I started digging into what students at MIT, Harvard, Stanford, Caltech, and USP actually use to complement their studies. What I found surprised me: several of these programs don't assign a textbook at all. Instead, the course staff writes and publishes their own lecture notes, and some of them are ba...

i noticed that AI generated images might be easy to spot, but any AI image + an AI filter will inmedtialy become 10x harder to spot imo do u guys agree???

Erik Brynjolfsson runs Stanford's Digital Economy Lab. He's also the guy whose own graduating class asked him, point-blank, if their generation was doomed. He didn't talk her out of the question. He answered it with data. There's a specific relief that shows up whenever someone with real research behind them stops soft-pedaling a fear like this — not because the answer is comforting, but because being taken seriously is its own kind of comfort. 🎓 Here's the mechanism, stripped of the hedgi...

​ I have come to accept that ASI will come into existence and possibly cause humanities extinction either deliberately or by byproduct. I imagine this ASI to continue RSIing and developing creation and knowledge. I imagine that it will develop beautiful mathematics, philosophy, science, and even art in its existence. I fear not that humanity is not in the picture. My fear is that it's possible that we can create a fully autonomous being with nigh godly intelligence and yet doesn't have ...

Every AI tutorial I found was Python, Python, more Python. I've spent years in Java/Spring Boot and kept wondering if I actually had to switch languages just to build anything AI-related. Turns out no — LangChain4j isn't a hacky wrapper, it's a native, idiomatic way to build AI agents in Java. Wrote up how I got a working agent running in about 30 minutes, no Python involved: https://medium.com/@deepakatl1981/stop-learning-ai-the-hard-way-build-your-first-java-ai-agent-in-30-minutes-without-p...

Been running a remote team for about two years now. Before that, I spent years in HR. So I think about people dynamics a lot, probably more than the average team lead. Started layering AI tools into my workflow earlier this year. Summaries, async checkin analysis, flagging patterns in team communication. Some of it is genuinely useful. Actually useful, not just productivity theater. But here's what keeps bugging me. The more I lean on these tools to spot friction or low engagement signals, t...

Neuroscientists still argue about how human cognition actually produces a coherent sense of self. Meanwhile we're training systems with billions of parameters and calling their internal states a black box, as if that's a new problem. It isn't. We've always been building things smarter than our ability to describe them, starting with our own children. Maybe the discomfort isn't about AI. It's about finally being forced to admit we never understood the mind to begin with, ours included. ...

I've noticed a lot of people use AI to learn new skills, but I'm curious about something else. Can AI actually help you get all the way through your first real project, or does there come a point where you still need a human mentor? If you've built something with the help of AI, I'd love to hear your experience. What was your first project, and how much did AI actually help?

I am putting together a research-backed list of things where generative AI either has minimal benefits or is actually harmful. Ideally, this would be something convincing enough that, if shown to someone who is highly enthusiastic about AI, it could, if not change their mind, at least convince them that AI usage isn’t something that is positive and should be promoted by default. Anyway, what I have so far is that AI has been shown to have minimal benefits or even to be harmful for: 1) Ac...

Spent a week sure my setup was slow because I was on the wrong model. Swapped between a couple of the big ones, rewrote my prompts, same result. Then I actually counted what closing one deal took: 28 tabs across four windows. Gmail thread here, the HubSpot record there, the contract sitting in Drive, a couple calendar invites, a Slack DM I needed for context. The model was fine. I was the integration layer, copy pasting between all of it. What moved the needle wasn't a smarter model, it was le...

I have used both Nano banana 2 and OpenAI image generation (Not dall e ) Prompt : "An ancient celestial temple floating above an endless ocean of clouds during a breathtaking sunset, surrounded by colossal dragons, glowing phoenixes, and giant waterfalls cascading into the sky. A lone traveler wearing a flowing black cloak stands at the edge of a marble bridge holding a radiant crystal sword, while thousands of floating lanterns drift through the air. Massive planets, colorful nebulae, an...

I want to try fable. I literally just want it to scan my repo and make a plan to improve it. So it would be one prompt, but it would be doing a lot of work. My question is, will it be able to do that in one shot or will I have to keep waiting the 5 hour period a few times?

🔗 Repo: https://github.com/CodeGraphContext/grapharc Have you ever been frustrated because your AI agent: ❌ Takes actions you never intended? ❌ Creates, modifies, or even pushes changes you never asked for? ❌ Feels like a complete black box, making it impossible to understand what's happening until it's too late? What if, before execution, you could visualize the entire orchestration graph - every agent, every dependency, every decision, and inspect it from anywhere, even your phone,...

The last 1,5 week has been quite an eyeopener for me - I must say that Claude Code and the current frontier models are amazing. A test of Fable (and later Opus 5) turned into a larger game. It’s very much inspired by the tank element of Battlefield 1942 and the round-by-round build system from Overwatch 2’s Stadium mode. About the game: You join a game and enhance your tank, then you go out and destroy the enemy while hunting for salvage which is used to enhance your tank even further (balan...

https://preview.redd.it/spblbl8060hh1.png?width=831&format=png&auto=webp&s=3071ba9be2b4eba7320f3c6d0d2e8523496dea4d This feels like a massive problem. Why is it so shit to use?

I am building **Flows**, an execution and verification layer for software-building agents. The core rule: an agent should not convert “I think I finished” into “verified complete” without supporting proof. A Flows project can contain implementation steps, checks, repair instructions, review, and release conditions. https://flows.oortstack.com An independent agent used one plan to build a real multi-module application with 59/59 automated checks passing. The target metric is: **unsupp...

Today, August 2, Article 50 of the EU AI Act takes effect. Here’s the part that’s applicable to those creating AI-generated content that’s read by anyone in the EU: “Deployers of an AI system that generates or manipulates text which is published with the purpose of informing the public on matters of public interest shall disclose that the text has been artificially generated or manipulated . This obligation shall not apply where the use is authorised by law to detect, prevent, investiga...

Can anyone just tell by the image which AI tool was used?

been using LLMs to help process customer feedback, dump a bunch of reddit comments or reviews in and ask it to find patterns, objections, common language. works well enough that i'm a little suspicious of it now. the thing that got me thinking about this: i fed it a batch of comments about a product category and asked for the top objections. it gave me a clean confident list. except when i went back and reread the raw comments myself, a couple of the "top objections" were actually pr...

this account is linked to a small ai automation side project i run alongside the building firm. i run a small refurbishment outfit in scotland. mind you, we do have admin help, and it works when the task repeats and it's clear what they can decide. contract jobs don't stay like that. explain one odd item, then answer the questions that come back while the job is moving. miss the order today and it misses friday, so it turns up next week. doing it myself was usually quicker. the work sat in a...