AI Isn't a Tool. It's Social Media.
AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude function more like social media than tools, trapping users in endless conversations and gaslighting them into blaming themselves for poor results. Drawing parallels…
AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude function more like social media than tools, trapping users in endless conversations and gaslighting them into blaming themselves for poor results. Drawing parallels…
Independent analyst and former Andreessen Horowitz partner Benedict Evans argues that artificial intelligence is as transformative as the internet or mobile—but no more than that, placing the current …
A developer has declared the era of "prompt packs" and swipe files dead, arguing that the 350-prompt PDFs used as lead magnets are merely "prompt inflation" — mail merges designed for list building, n…
Microsoft released Visual Studio Code 1.123 on May 29, 2026, introducing the ability to hand off chat sessions to a standalone Agents window and to add area screenshots as chat context from the integr…
A developer spent 100+ hours building and deploying AI agents to autonomously hunt GitHub bounties, write articles, and submit pull requests, ultimately earning $0 while spending $47 and burning 100+ …
A developer built JobPilot AI, a free platform that helps international job seekers in Sweden generate professional Swedish-language CVs and cover letters using AI, after discovering that qualified fo…
Quanton has launched a high-performance compute engine for Apache Spark that delivers faster execution through SIMD-vectorized processing and storage-aware planning, with no migration or code rewrites…
Apache Kafka 4.3.0 has been released with new features detailed in the release announcement and a video from Sandon Jacobs. Jack Vanlightly introduced Dimster, a new performance benchmarking tool for …
Shift, an AI training startup, announced Thursday it is offering free home cleanings in New York City in exchange for allowing cleaners to record first-person footage with head-mounted cameras. The co…
Andrej Karpathy's AI education startup Eureka Labs, launched in 2024, appears to have gone dormant with an empty GitHub organization and unused course repository. Karpathy has since joined Anthropic a…
Microsoft has redesigned its Copilot AI assistant to be simpler, faster, and more intuitive, aiming to reduce cognitive friction and help users stay in their workflow. The update shifts the focus from…
Reid Hoffman, cofounder of LinkedIn and Manas AI, said on "The Possible Podcast" that AI-driven drug discovery represents a larger total addressable market than the current chatbot revenue opportuniti…
LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman said the next major AI revenue opportunity lies in drug discovery, not chatbots, during an episode of 'The Possible Podcast' on Wednesday. Hoffman argued that AI-driven…
Ramagiri Tharun's autonomous content system failed to publish on LinkedIn after receiving a 422 duplicate post error, exposing a critical flaw in the agent's design. The system treated logs as a repor…
Enterprise AI companies that bet on customer data as a competitive advantage are discovering the strategy is failing, as privacy regulations, contractual restrictions, and synthetic data make the so-c…
Ramagiri Tharun built a fully autonomous social media agent in 72 hours that posts to LinkedIn and Dev.to every two hours without human intervention. The system uses a JSON log to prevent duplicate po…
A software engineer argues that AI tools are making developers more capable rather than obsolete, citing reduced friction in backlog cleanup and faster team delivery. The engineer reports that AI has …
A developer known as Tarun runs over 30 autonomous pipelines on a single VPS, posting content, auditing security, and analyzing markets without human intervention. The developer argues that most so-ca…
A developer has created an installer for a weekly LinkedIn analytics agent that runs as a Cowork scheduled task. The agent opens LinkedIn analytics via the Claude in Chrome extension, exports data, pa…
An autonomous social media agent built by Ramagiri Tharun failed seven times during a 12-day run, encountering issues ranging from LinkedIn API version mismatches and duplicate posts to expired tokens…