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The Humans in the Loop
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The executive summary of AI news for busy software developers, brought to you by Heavybit. Delivered biweekly at https://thehumansintheloop.substack.com
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The last 2025 issue #AI news for busy devs covers:

- The top stories of the year: From #DeepSeek to #Nvidia at $5T to the #AITalentWar to #Stargate to the #AIBubble
- The many recent acquisitions in AI (including #IBM, #META, #OpenAI)
...and more:

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December 11, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Researcher-turned-engineer Lee Miller explains how his open-source project, the lightweight NLP toolkit #WordLlama, runs semantic text analysis tasks using only CPU compute. thehumansintheloop.substack.com/p/the-humans...
The Humans in the Loop Deep Dive: Lightweight NLP token embeddings in WordLlama with Lee Miller
A Special-Edition Interview on Utilizing Text-Based NLP Tooling in Resource-Constrained Environments
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December 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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In this deep dive, @johannschopplich.com explains why the #opensource #TOON project, which conserves as much as 40% on #LLM #token budgets, has already gotten 20K @github.com stars.

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The Humans in the Loop Deep Dive: TOON Data Serialization with Johann Schopplich
A Special-Edition Interview on How Changing Data Serialization Saves $$ on LLM Tokens
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December 4, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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This week's #AI news for busy #developers:

- Guides on #training, #agents, #contextrot, and #architecture
- GOOG unveils #NestedDeepLearning
- @yann-lecun.bsky.social leaving META to found new startup?
- @ec.europa.eu relaxing #AI regulation?

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The Humans in the Loop: Holiday Reading
This Week in AI for Devs: Learning Resources to Cleanse the Palette
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November 13, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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This week's #AI news covers:

- #Datacenters from #OpenAI #Amazon #Meta & Saudi govt
- #Nvidia becoming the world's first $5T company
- 2.5 hours with @karpathy.bsky.social on the future of AI
- @sagaftra.org cracks down on Bryan Cranston deepfakes

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The Humans in the Loop: Here's a Billion, Go Build a Data Center
This Week in AI for Devs: The Great Global AI Buildout Begins
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October 30, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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This week in #AI news for #developers:

- #Nvidia #AMD #OpenAI #META @cisco.com #Nexperia #Oracle #Amazon @broadcom.bsky.social & the great #AIChip war
- @mitchellh.com on how to #vibecode real features
- @karpathy.bsky.social's #nanochat

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The Humans in the Loop: Cashing in Chips Again
This Week in AI for Devs: Is the AI War Becoming the Chip War?
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October 16, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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This week in #AI news for #developers:

- OpenAI's massive bets on #datacenters, #silicon, and power
- @simonwillison.net on #agentic loops
- @thinkingmachines.bsky.social releases first product
- @anthropic.com #Claude #Sonnet 4.5 tops the charts

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The Humans in the Loop: When You Get the Money, You Get the Power
This Week in AI for Devs: AI Resources, But at What Cost?
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October 2, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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This week's #AI #news for #technical founders and #devs covers:

- The great #adoption debate
- #MCP & #agentic resources
- #Gemini & #OpenAI take #ICPC gold
- Why #compute made Ellison the richest man in the world

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The Humans in the Loop: Is AI a "Thing" Yet?
This Week in AI for Devs: Why We're Not There Yet
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September 18, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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In this week's edition of #AI news for busy #devs:

- #OpenAI buys @statsig.com
- #CoreWeave buys #OpenPipe
- @fivetran.bsky.social buys #TobikoData
- @continue.dev Instinct offers local-first #NextEdit
- #Meta starts a #SuperPAC

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September 4, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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This week's #AI news for busy #devs covers:

- The report that "95% of AI programs don't make #revenue
- Why Meta is pulling back on hiring
- #GPT5's launch woes (and successes?)
- Intel gets $2B from Softbank, may give up 10% to the Feds

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The Humans in the Loop: The Elephant in the Room
This Week in AI for Devs: The Article Everyone's Talking About
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August 21, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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This deal is...innovative. #Nvidia and #AMD get export licenses to America's top trade rival China as long as The White House gets a cut of the revenue. www.cnbc.com/2025/08/11/t...
What Trump's Nvidia and AMD China deal means for the world
Analysts said the deal to give some China revenue to the U.S. government is positive for both AMD and Nvidia as they get access to a huge market.
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August 11, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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In this week's #AI news for busy #software #developers:

- OpenAI launches #ChatGPT5, raises $8B, releases first #openweight models since GPT-2
- Why #datacenters and #tokens may bankrupt the AI space
- The developer skillset for AI early adopters

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August 7, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Despite US AI sanctions, Beijing-based Z.ai’s latest foundation model offers 36% improved performance over DeepSeek at more than 80% less token cost. https://z.ai/blog/glm-4.5
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July 29, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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This week's #AI news for busy devs covers:

- How AMZN's #agent #Q was hacked to wipe hard drives
- How Replit accidentally deleted an entire #production #db
- How a human narrowly defeated an AI in a coding contest
- The endless war for AI #Talent

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The Humans in the Loop: The Reliability Problem
This Week in AI for Devs: Giving AI the Power to Delete
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July 24, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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This week's edition covers:

- Getting #AI #Agents to work
- The architecture of #VibeCoding
- All about #contextengineering
- The war for AI #talent: #META acqui-hires NFDG, #anysphere acqui-hires @anthropic.com Claude Code team

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July 10, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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This week's #AI news for #devs covers:

- Lots more #MCP and #agent resources
- How David Crawshaw uses agents
- Veteran devs ponder whether AI skeptics are nuts
- Disney and NBC Universal sue Midjourney

and more:
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The Humans in the Loop: Your Agent Army Awaits
This Week in AI for Devs: Will It All Be MCP Agents, All the Time?
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June 12, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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This week's edition of #AI news for the #software space covers:

- Google I/O 2025, Microsoft Build 2025, Anthropic Developer Day 2025
- How people are *really* using AI #codingassistants
- Opera launches "agentic" browser

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The Humans in the Loop: I/O, BUILD, Anthropic Dev Day
This Week in AI for Devs: Conference Season Breakdown
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May 29, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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This week's #AI news for busy #developers covers:

- #Codex from OpenAI
- @jeffdean.bsky.social suggests AI will be a junior dev in a year
- BYO #Siri
- Saudi startup Humain's $5B deal with @awscloud.bsky.social and Nvidia

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The Humans in the Loop: What Happens to Junior Devs?
This Week in AI for Devs: An Endangered Species?
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May 16, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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This week's #AI news for #software teams covers:

- #LlamaCon2025: New API and #sec updates
- AI at @rsaconference.bsky.social
- Cognition unveils #DeepWiki
- The White House goes all-in on AI

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May 1, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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This week's #AI news for #devs covers:
- Google Cloud Next recap
- OpenAI may be buying @windsurfai.bsky.social
- Many new #AIAgent and #MCP resources
- Many new models from META, @groktr.bsky.social, and others
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April 17, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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This week's #AI news for #devs covers:

- #OpenAI & the biggest funding round ever
- #Softbank to invest $1T in AI factories
- How #eng #leads should think about #LLMs
- #VibeCoding: Threat or menace?

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The Humans in the Loop: Big Money, No Whammies
This Week in AI for Devs: AI's Biggest Fish Get Bigger
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April 3, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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This week in #AI news for devs:

- Nvidia #GTC news: Blackwell, Vera Rubin, Dynamo, Gretel
- @amazonwebservices.bsky.social undercuts H100s 75%
- A GitHub AI repo that tries to fix GitHub repos
- Gemini's top popular use case: Removing watermarks

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The Humans in the Loop: Nvidia's Long Road
This Week in AI for Devs: Headwinds for the Chip Giant
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March 20, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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This week's #AI news for busy devs covers:

- @microsoft.com canceling data centers
- OpenAI's GPT4.5 cost concerns (and $10K/mo software dev agents)
- Meta's paid AI offering
- @continue.dev 1.0 launches to let devs build custom AI coding assistants

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The Humans in the Loop: Where's the Money, Lebowski?
This Week in AI for Devs: Is AI Making Cents (and Dollars)?
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March 7, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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This week's #AI news for busy devs covers:

- #SWELancer's bold experiment on AI models doing actual, for-pay dev work
- META announces first #LlamaCon
- Re-creating #DeepSeekR1 for $30
- France to spend $1B and 1GW nuclear on AI infra

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The Humans in the Loop: Why AI Won't Replace Human Coders Yet
This Week in AI for Devs: Humans Still Better at Finding Root Causes
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February 20, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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This week's #AI news for busy devs covers:

- The @deepseek.bsky.social aftermath
- #Replit's AI app builder going free
- #Gemini 2.0 Flash adds reasoning
- California's AI guardrails bill for kids
- GOOG quietly walking back using AI for defense

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The Humans in the Loop: DeepSeek Aftermath
This Week in AI for Devs: Moving on From the Blast Radius
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February 6, 2025 at 8:52 PM