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Banger from one of the squad 💪🏻😂

A developer named Erin T calculated that individual users are the reason AI isn't smarter yet, in a humorous blog post that blends math with a critique of AI progress.

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I did the math and it turns out YOU are the reason AI isn't smarter yet Erin T Erin T Erin T Follow Jun 20 I did the math and it turns out YOU are the reason AI isn't smarter yet

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dev.to — original article AI credits are the new lines of code metric North Korean Hackers Poisoned 140+ npm Packages in an AI Dev Tooling Attack. Here's What Would Have Caught It. I manually checked 100+ startup launch directories — here are 16 free ones to start with
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