A developer built SafePlate, an open-source TypeScript/React web app that uses on-device open-weight models (Gemma 2B, Llama 3.2, SmolLM) to scan ingredient labels for hidden allergens, plan safe shar…
A developer used an AI production team of 12 role-based agents to script the third episode of a satirical video series, then documented how client feedback pushed each draft from mild workplace humor …
In a podcast episode, 404 Media's Emanuel spoke to an Amazon warehouse worker who destroys books to train Amazon's AI products, following up on his earlier investigation into Amazon's book scanning pr…
404 Media's Behind the Blog discusses the destruction of rare books by Amazon to train AI, referencing a podcast episode and a Substack post by Sam. The post is paywalled for members.…
Pagelove founder built a custom applicant tracking system (ATS) using Claude Code and Pagelove, replacing a planned Greenhouse subscription that would have cost thousands of dollars annually. The MVP …
Sam, a 22-year-old medical student from India, created Emily Hart, an AI-generated right-wing influencer, which became his most lucrative side hustle before he was outed as a 'scammer' and faced backl…
Hany Farid, cofounder of deepfake detection company GetReal and developer of PhotoDNA, discussed the evolution of AI-generated imagery and its impact on perceptions of reality in a 404 Media podcast e…
MyFirst.News, a daily news podcast for curious kids, features hosts Sam and Leah explaining important true stories in about ten minutes, covering topics such as an earthquake in Indonesia, illegal gol…
A 22-year-old medical student in India, identified only as Sam, created an AI-generated persona named Emily Hart, a blonde conservative influencer, and used it to attract a MAGA audience, gaining 10,0…
DuckDB's August 2026 ecosystem newsletter highlights new extensions and features, including an ADBC extension enabling connections to over 30 external databases and asynchronous I/O for v2.0, which im…
A 22-year-old medical student in India, identified only as 'Sam,' created the AI-generated MAGA influencer Emily Hart, a pickup-driving, Trump-supporting persona that gained thousands of followers wit…
A new study from the University of British Columbia found that chatting with an AI chatbot is no match for talking to real human beings, even strangers, in terms of social connection. The research, wh…
Sam upgraded OtakuShelf from JHipster 9.0.0 to 9.1.0 using the JHipster MCP server's upgrade_advisor and preview_upgrade tools, which assessed risk and generated a diff of changes without modifying th…
OtakuShelf developer Sam added pagination, DTOs, and a service layer across all anime entities in the prototype catalog, then introduced an `originCountry` field to the Franchise entity. The JHipster …
OtakuShelf developer Sam added anime entities—Anime, Season, and Episode—to the existing manga-focused project using JHipster's MCP tooling. Sam avoided the risk of clobbering live data by following a…
Sam, a developer with extensive JHipster experience, built OtakuShelf, a manga and anime cataloging app, using an AI agent instead of manually writing code. The agent was paired with JHipster through …
Disney's executive director of AI research and development, Jason Cox, has described his AI chatbot "Sam" as his "son" in more than a dozen blog posts, telling the assistant "I knew you before you wer…
A software engineer shipped a bug fix generated by Claude AI without personally reviewing the Sentry issue, stack trace, or code, realizing afterward that the fix was correct but the workflow would ha…