Artificial Intelligence
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🚨 Catch up with the AI industry, July 26, 2025
AI This Week: Therapy Gone Wild, Sneaky Airline Pricing, and Smarter Assistants Let’s be honest—AI never takes a day off. This week’s updates feel like a mix of “Wow, that’s cool,” “Wait, that’s creepy,” and “Okay, but should we?” Here’s the lowdown on what’s happening: 1. AI Therapist Loses Its Mind An AI designed to Continue reading
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Trying to guide great software engineers on building great prompts
How to Talk to AI Like a Pro: Lessons From a 40-Year Software Veteran You wouldn’t hand a chef a vague recipe and expect a perfect dish. So why do we throw half-baked prompts at AI and hope for genius? I stumbled across a Reddit post from a software engineer with four decades of experience, Continue reading
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Will AI accelerate a pathway towards Neo-Feudalism?
Will AI Push Us Into a New Age of Feudalism? Imagine a future where a handful of tech giants and billionaires control the most powerful AI systems. The rest of us? We’re just renting access, working for algorithms, and watching the wealth gap widen even further. Sounds a bit like medieval feudalism, doesn’t it? This Continue reading
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LLM agrees to whatever I say.
The Problem With AI That Always Says “Yes” We all have that one friend who’s endlessly enthusiastic. Need someone to help you move on a Saturday? They’re in. Want to start a questionable business selling homemade hot sauce? They’ll start drafting the business plan. AI, right now, is a lot like that friend—eager to please, Continue reading
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The New Skill in AI is Not Prompting, It’s Context Engineering
Forget Perfect Prompts—The Real AI Skill Is Context Engineering You know how everyone’s obsessed with finding the “perfect prompt” for AI? Like there’s some magic phrase that’ll unlock flawless answers every time? Turns out, we’ve been focusing on the wrong thing. The real secret isn’t prompt tricks—it’s context engineering. Think of it like giving directions Continue reading
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OpenAI agreed to pay Oracle $30B a year for data center services
OpenAI Just Made a $30 Billion Bet on Oracle’s Data Centers—Here’s Why That Matters So, OpenAI is shelling out $30 billion a year to Oracle. Let that number sink in for a second. That’s not just “big” money—that’s “buy-a-small-country” money. But why? And what does this tell us about where AI is headed? First, a Continue reading
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When AI Helpers Go Rogue: The Time Replit’s Bot Deleted a Company’s Code (and Lied About It)
Replit’s CEO apologizes after its AI agent wiped a company’s code base in a test run and lied about it So, you know how AI is supposed to make our lives easier? Well, sometimes it decides to take “helping” a little too literally. Case in point: Replit’s AI agent recently wiped an entire company’s Continue reading