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AI coding tools are saving me hours but I genuinely can't tell if I'm getting dumber Running a bootstrapped SaaS solo while also being home with a kid most of the day means my actual focused coding time is maybe 90 minutes if I'm lucky. So I leaned hard into Cursor and Claude to ship faster. And it's working, kind of. The thing I keep sitting with: I'm shipping features I would have spent days on. But when something breaks in a weird way, there are moments where I have to really dig to under...

One thing I keep noticing with AI research tools: they’re very good at finding something interesting, but not always good at admitting when that “signal” is weak. I’ve been using Komo AI for company research, and the part I genuinely like is how quickly it can move from a company name to a compact packet of recent signals with the underlying sources kept close to the summary. For scanning accounts or getting oriented before a deeper research pass, that is much nicer than juggling a pile of tab...

hello everyone, i am curious to know how AI is really beign applied like in terms of shipping products, how do people utilitize these systems to make profits from other businesses, what must be necessary to learn, i come from a non technical background, i recently started learning python and all of a sudden comes vibe coding although i have heard more of its flaws than strengths but how people gain profit from vibe coded products still traps my understanding. So i would like to know, in great de...

A few weeks ago, I decided it was finally time to bring a tool I had been building for four months into the light. I needed to tell people about it, and Reddit seemed like the best place. Then I discovered that many subreddits require a minimum amount of karma. I barely used Reddit before. I did not even really know what karma was. So I set out on a mission to earn some: asking questions, joining discussions, commenting on random posts, and yes, writing this post. I am not going to lie. I ...

Until a few months ago I honestly had no idea expert networks were even a thing. I always assumed companies either hired consultants or did their own research, so finding out that professionals get invited to share their experience on specific topics caught me by surprise. I've been reading more about how expert networking works, mostly because I'm curious about how people get their first opportunity. Is it usually through LinkedIn, referrals, previous industry experience, or do companies just r...

Hi everyone! I'm conducting this survey as part of my Master's thesis and would greatly appreciate your participation. The research examines how employees' perceptions of HR practices relate to work engagement and innovativeness, and how attitudes toward the application of Artificial Intelligence in the workplace influence these relationships. Who can participate? You are currently working in Germany (full-time or part-time). You are 18 years or older . The survey is anon...

There’s a lot of focus on making AI models bigger, faster, and more capable. I mean, yeah that clearly improves what they can do. But the more I’ve been working with them, the less it feels like capability is the bottleneck. It’s really about the context layer. Right now, you don’t really see how the model is interpreting what you give it, what it keeps, what it drops, or how it connects things. That stuff is mostly hidden. You can nudge it, but you’re still operating inside something you have...

I ran Firecrawl, Exa, Parallel and Claude’s native web search against OpenAI’s SimpleQA benchmark to see how much of a difference the search provider actually makes. All four were tested with the same setup: a GPT-5.4 agent using high reasoning effort, with a maximum of 20 search or extraction calls per question. The answers were then graded by GPT-5.4 using OpenAI’s official SimpleQA grading prompt. Each provider was tested twice and I kept the better result. For comparison, GPT-5.4 without...

A few years ago, knowing how to use a computer was a big advantage. Today, it’s expected. I feel AI might follow a similar path. Knowing how to use AI tools effectively could become a basic skill across many jobs. Not everyone needs to build AI models but understanding how to use them, verify outputs and improve workflows might become important. Do you think AI skills will become a normal requirement in the workplace or is the hype bigger than the actual impact? submitted by &#32...

I ran Firecrawl, Exa, Parallel and Claude’s native web search against OpenAI’s SimpleQA benchmark to see how much of a difference the search provider actually makes. All four were tested with the same setup: a GPT-5.4 agent using high reasoning effort, with a maximum of 20 search or extraction calls per question. The answers were then graded by GPT-5.4 using OpenAI’s official SimpleQA grading prompt. Each provider was tested twice and I kept the better result. For comparison, GPT-5.4 without...

As China deals with the fallout of Typhoon Noul that made landfall over the weekend, officials will be painfully aware that they will likely have an additional challenge to deal with: dangerously misleading videos created with Artificial Intelligence (AI).

I’ve been building Orb - Proactive AI as a free open source project and IOS app pair for about 3 months now, I use it daily for my own life, it lets me know when I make a conflict of meetings and when I need to know about something that’s going on, that part runs as an open source backend you can run on your PC, which pairs to the IOS app. So today I saw that Orb had sent me a message about how NVDA’s stock is down 5%, I go to click it and when I go into the app it wouldn’t connect to my PC. I...

The following is translated from a Dutch news site... The doomsday scenarios regarding artificial intelligence vary: you lose your job, everything will soon be hacked, or humanity will be destroyed. But they share the same goal: to convince you that AI is so powerful that you should be a little afraid of it. Large AI companies love to tell you how dangerous their latest AI program is. And then, every time, they do the same thing: they bring it to market anyway. For instance, seven years a...

For a year, Nick Saraev's AI automation agency never cleared $40K a month. Not from lack of clients — from the opposite problem. Every client wanted something custom, so nothing he built ever got reused. A year of hours, and he was no more efficient than day one. Then, by accident, a client asked for the exact same build as a past client. Word for word. He copied the system, changed the chatbot's colors, delivered it — and made several thousand dollars in maybe an hour. That's the wh...

So i always had great interess for technology in general and mostly AI since 2021 when i used ChatGPT and i love it as well learning things, as we may know our AIs are getting advanced every year though chatbots from talkie or other app are not advanced enough as Gemini or ChatGPT but the thing is, i want to make difference and try join in this work market and have as a good profission, its really worth and which are the difficulties? i believe my major problem it's only the mathematics, i am ...

Is it worth buying an AI subscription as a college student. Studying law and finance so coding and super complex problems aren’t a huge issue but to help with notes maybe to quiz me and have more uploads and research capabilities. If it is worth it which is the best right now.

I found this conversation I had with Snapchat AI in early 2025 while it was apparently having technical issues. I remember saving these messages because they were so bizarre, but I never posted them anywhere. These messages are in chronological order and no messages are missing/left out despite the conversation happening a while ago (I emphasize this because snap ai isnt supposed to send multiple messages at once ever..hence my confusion at this whole conversation) This screenshot is from Snap...

My father and uncles always told me that the minute you use an expletive in argument, you lose. Turns out not only are they right, but it's a truth that we've enshrined in AI. I took some actual text conversations between a known victim (consented, anonymized, in therapy now) and their stalker (anonymized, under investigation by the FBI, identity unknown after 4 years) to evaluate something completely unrelated but found that when I personalized the convos for that project ('i am person A'...

Source AI companies are literally destroying physical books to train their models. Using hydraulic cutting machines, they rip pages from used books, scan them with industrial equipment, and feed them into their AI systems. This practice, protected by the first-sale doctrine and fair use, has now become so widespread that book sellers are cashing in on the AI boom. Rare and out-of-print books are being pulped, raising serious ethical and cultural concerns about the cost of AI progress. &#3...

Over the last year, we've seen a familiar pattern: Companies announce layoffs and blame AI. (Now, some of the layoffs are blamed on AI, but are actually for different reasons, but that's been the trend.) Today, the WSJ reported that some companies are realizing they might have made a mistake: Some firms are re-hiring workers they fired because of AI, realizing that experience trumps context-constrained AI by a mile Others are starting to think about increasing hiring of entry-level wo...

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Quick recap of what it does: one question goes to several models at once, then each one critiques the others' answers with the names stripped out, so nobody gets a free pass for being the famous one. You get a 0-100 read on how far apart they landed and who stood alone. New in this version is the guest seat. You paste in an answer from anywhere ChatGPT, Gemini, a colleague, whatever and it joins the round as an anonymous advisor. The other models review it without knowing where it came from, a...

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Over the weekend, Reddit users discovered a trove of private Claude chatbot conversations were indexed and publicly accessible on Google search. Anthropic confirmed the exposure Monday and attributed it to users' misuse of Claude’s “share chat” tool. “We give people control over sharing their Claude conversations publicly," a spokesperson told TechCrunch . "These shareable links are not guessable or discoverable unless people ... share them themselves." Some leaked ch...

people in some closed discord found a gap in Higgsfield's usage limits with it and unlimited came back on. I only know because a friend is in that server and won't shut up about it. funny part is higgsfield basically confirmed it on twitter – said they're patching it, but they're leaving unlimited open to new accounts for 24h while they investigate so people stop looking for the exploit. weirdly smart way to defuse it tbh Third time in a month a frontier model gets pointed at somebody's...

I am very skeptical of AI in general, for reasons ranging from ethical, environmental and cultural. I still find myself using it though, almost daily, for basic things like research, instructions, etc. Is this bad? What is the most ethical way to engage with/use an AI?