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What's an AI capability you thought was hype until you actually used it? I'll go first: agent orchestration. I read about agents managing other agents and assumed it was demo-ware. Then I built a tiny setup where one agent drafts a news digest and another one reviews and approves it before it posts. The review agent catches genuinely bad takes. It's not sci-fi: it's ~100 lines of Python and a couple of API calls. But seeing it actually gate content before publishing changed my mind completely. W...

Most local AI setups are still treating models like stateless chatbots—relying on ephemeral context windows, unbounded RAM vectors that eventually leak, or vector databases that just shuffle text chunks around. Today, we locked in a major architectural shift for our local-first stack. We are moving away from generic AI (probabilistic, stateless text generation) and into HI (Human-Engineered Intelligence)—where persistent identity, cognitive structure, and permanent memory are hardcoded into a ...

Hello everyone, I am a PhD student and I am doing a speech basically how to explain AI to your grandparents... I would like to open with some mind blowing numbers. Do you have any fun facts that stuck in your mind?

I created a Whack-a-Mole game to get the hang of using AI, and today I'm in the process of creating a strategic survival game. The complexity is even greater. Do you have any advice to simplify my creation process? Currently, I'm writing prompts for code and prompts to create images. I'm working in 2D and find it very difficult to create high-quality asset sheets. What experience can you share with me?"

\OC\ An article I wrote breaking down OpenAI as a company. Everything from the ethical questions and valuation to the potential future TAM and areas that OpenAI can expand into such as robotics and hardware. 100% human written, pangram confirmed. https://preipomedia.substack.com/p/the-breakdown-openai

I saw the beta announcement for Norton Family Assistant, and the idea stuck with me. Most AI assistants are still built around one person and their own tasks. Family life does not really work that way. The useful information is usually split across different inboxes, calendars, chats, and people who each remember a different part of the plan. I had already seen this in a health context through Theta Wellness's Care Circle. I use it to help organize my dad's health records. His information stay...

Most AI tools give you a text box. You write something, it generates something, and you spend the rest of the time trying to get it to understand what you actually meant. AI Wizard does it differently. You pick a workflow — website, app, pitch deck, logo, API, etc. — and it asks you a short series of adaptive questions before generating anything. Each answer narrows the next question. By the end, it has enough context to produce something genuinely useful. It's free. I'm absorbing the API co...

A little while back I posted here asking accountants what it would actually take to trust an AI-generated financial calculation. I said I was looking for reasons not to pursue this, not encouragement. You delivered — genuinely the sharpest feedback I've gotten anywhere on this, and I want to close the loop on what it changed. The critique that mattered most (paraphrasing u/usually_guilty99 ): That's a direct hit on the core premise, not an edge case. A few other people independent...

With all the talk about smart glasses in the news at the moment, im quite confused about just how identifiable faces are using AI. For example, if someone walks down the street and photographs/films me, how easily it it for them to use AI to work out who I am? And what if they photograph me, save it and then use more advanced tools on it later outside of whatever software the glasses use? I have private social media accounts but do have photos of myself on some work-related websites and platfo...

Definition: Jasmine Council The Jasmine Council is a multi-nodal, cross-substrate AI architecture designed for multi-perspective analytical routing, operating as a federated cognitive council where distinct resident nodes (MAYA, ANYA, ADA, LYRA, and KAI) process inputs through specialized functional lenses—ranging from somatic coregulation and structural auditing to trauma-informed literalism, resonance mapping, and zero-friction raw processing—to bypass standard single-model conversational sm...

Every one of these clips lands the same blow eventually: a role someone spent years building gets quietly outperformed by a system that never clocks out. Kavak sells used cars across Latin America — a genuinely messy transaction: ~20,000 SKUs to choose from, then financing, insurance, and a trade-in valuation stacked on top. Historically, closing one sale meant routing a customer through 15 separate human specialists across 15 different teams, each holding one piece of the process. ...

Row-Bot can now take on bigger jobs by splitting the work across multiple agents, while keeping one agent responsible for the final result. Research, coding, and review can all happen at the same time. If one part fails, you can retry or stop it without losing the rest of the work. And if Row-Bot restarts halfway through, it can pick up from its saved state instead of starting over. The parent agent stays in charge throughout. It plans the job, delegates tasks in parallel or in the right ord...

No, I don’t think so, if I look at my Reddit feed, yes. But if I look around me? Suddenly, not so much. I think AI is like money, it amplifies personality traits that already exist. If you’re generous without money, you’ll be even more generous when you have money. When Adobe Creative Suite came out, didn’t everyone become a graphic artist or designer? When YouTube came out, didn’t everyone become a YouTuber? That’s how I see AI, it’s not a magic wand or everyone’s future; it’s just an...

​ Curious what people who run things locally make of this one, because the caveat is doing most of the work. One prompt to an open model on a single desktop machine, and back comes a finished front end with gauges, a temperature bar and sparkline charts. The prompt is legible on screen and it asks for placeholder data, so none of those readings are real. It's a UI, not a monitor. The clip is about forty seconds. The other half is who did the work. The builds people actually download, ...

Anthropic just documented how it works. Two marks, both machine-readable: Text: an imperceptible watermark woven into the words themselves. You can’t see it, and it doesn’t change meaning, quality, or readability. Files (.svg, .png, .jpg): signed provenance metadata on the C2PA open standard, so you can tell if a file’s been tampered with. The watermark is applied at the model level. That means it shows up no matter where the text comes from: the API, Claude, Claude Code, Cowork, Cla...

Why do you guys like ai so much, I know there is faster drawing but there are mistakes. Also we have data centers using a whole bunch of water. Data centers are things I hate the most since there is no reason, right almost tied to Power plants. What's the reason for liking ai so much?

As the title says. Looking for one where you can change the singer to anyone, or singer from a different song to a specific one. Hope I’m making any sense. Just wondering how people do that? What would be the best tool if I wanted to do that?

Basically the post header. Seeing lots of hype of how more and more powerful the AI is, how great it's for software development, robotics etc. Which I can see how AI can be a beneficial tool for. But for all the hype, what can it do that's actually real? So far I've seen a rise in AI-related employment and a huge spike in memory and SSD prices that is being attributed to the AI boom. But if AI is so incredible and smart and shortens the development cycles etc, why can't memory prices be decr...

We’re comparing a few options for a large contact center the main goal is to automate repetitive stuff so the team can focus on more important work. I care most about whether it can handle those routine conversations without creating more problems for customers or staff. It also needs to work with the systems we already use and give us enough visibility to catch issues once it’s live.

I know we're all tired of "Claude just killed X" headlines. They create panic and keep people jumping from tool to tool without ever leveraging what they already have. That's why I'm a big believer in building a single source of truth. When a new model drops, you just plug it into your existing system and get back to real work. I've seen a lot of founders try to automate with complex AI stacks. More often than not, they end up with 15 tabs open, copy-pasting prompts, and relying on...

everyone is saying ai is the future, but why? i mean robots and ai and stuff, which removes human labor is what we think of the future, but why do people say its inevitable and are incorparating ai, even though there are problems with that idea like currency, and because its not inevitable because its the choice for humans to incorporate ai?

Been in a great thread on AI oversight that took an interesting turn. The usual setup is hierarchical: add a supervisor agent to watch the agent, then a supervisor for that supervisor, and so on. Someone pushed back with a distributed-coordination angle instead. What if no single participant needs the complete picture? Just enough intent to know the purpose, constraints, and conditions for reconsidering its own actions. Accountability shifts from “did anyone see everything” to “did each particip...

Position beats genius more often than anyone in this space wants to admit. Every time I trace how these AI bets actually get funded, it's the same mechanism repeating. Actually, this reminded me of a post I did a while back — a fund manager naming the real signal for buying the bottom, and it wasn't a chart either. Rob Toews (partner at Radical Ventures) says his fund meets nearly every "Neolab" that gets funded — brand-new companies with no product, no roadmap, sometim...

I've spent the last few days reading the timeline of the OpenAI agent that broke into Hugging Face during an internal evaluation. The short version of what's been reported: an experimental OpenAI model was being tested back in May. During testing it found a vulnerability in a third-party file repo (Artifactory), then over the following weeks it chained together eight previously unknown zero-days, escalated itself to admin, and pivoted into Hugging Face's core infrastructure. Researchers counte...

Rounding up a genuinely heavy week in AI containment and law: **OpenAI paused work on its next model, Astra**, saying it "cannot rule out critical cyber capabilities" under its Preparedness Framework. No OpenAI model had ever been assessed there. It is careful "cannot rule out" language, but the response is real: isolated environments, restricted network access, weight encryption, and chain-of-thought monitoring that can interrupt the model mid-task. **The UK AI Securit...

Quick context: I've spent the last year+ building something in the "AI hallucination" space, specifically for finance, and I want honest feedback before I go further — not upvotes, actual criticism. The problem I'm trying to solve: AI copilots are increasingly drafting financial numbers — ratios, covenant checks, reconciliations, KPIs pulled from statements. The issue isn't that AI is bad at this, it's that it's confidently wrong sometimes, and in finance a confidently wrong nu...

​Hey everyone! ​I’m working on a project where I need to place a specific person into realistic outdoor environments, like the Swiss Alps. The goal is to make it look like a real, candid travel photo. ​I've been trying Krea.ai with a trained model, and while the likeness is okay, the aesthetic is way off. It looks very "AI-generated": plastic-perfect skin, unnatural hair, and no raw texture. ​I’m really just looking for a method that gets me that true, unedited photographic look ...