The AI revolution is plateauing. The gap between the frontier models has narrowed to a statistical tie. Every week, a new release claims a 2% improvement on a coding benchmark that 99% of the world accepts but never verifies. We are drowning in evals and parameters, yet user enthusiasm is flatlining. My hypothesis is that this inevitable hangover is the Large Language Model’s "Trough of Disillusionment."

One good question about self-esteem is this: can you love yourself even if people in your life think you are average in your achievements? High achievers defiantly say no. They need to prove something to other people every day. What they don’t realize is that proving themselves to others is just a cover story. The real work they are avoiding is to figure out why they can convince others of their worth but are never able to convince themselves.

And you need a tolerance for looking stupid, because you will look stupid. You’ll ask questions that seem obvious in retrospect. You’ll ship things that are broken or half-baked. You’ll fail in public where everyone can see it. That’s not a bug in the system, that’s the entire price of entry, and despite what you might think, it’s actually a feature.

The phrase "Steal my top prompts" acts as a core sample of the current internet. It marks the web's final transition from a library of discovery to a factory of efficiency. The phrase is efficient and dense. "Steal" signals high utility. It tells the reader that the content is actionable immediately. It removes the friction of learning and replaces it with the speed of copy-pasting.

Why the rings of power isn’t “fantasy” an epic is fantasy when it causes you to “imagine.” i wholeheartedly agree with this definition. however, just because it remains as imagination in one storyline, does not mean those arcs *shouldn’t* be imagined. by that definition, any exploration of the past, as utilized by a story prevents it from being in the genre of fantasy.

The desktop pc and laptop market is in turmoil. As a sign of the times, Microsoft is leveraging the AI moment to determine how it wants to play in the consumer space. However, their plan is currently being rejected by their ardent users. Let's take a step back. Microsoft's major AI play is Azure. A couple years ago, Microsoft was riding high. They invested early in OpenAI after seeing the potential. They leveraged their strengths to become the enterprise play for AI as a result of Azure and Office 365 and their major consumer play was - Bing.

If I told you a “Harvard MBA grad turned Bain consultant launched a successful business that gained traction by gamifying the payment experience”, what industry would you guess? Fintech? EdTech? Mobile gaming? Sports gambling? Stock trading? Dating app? A dating app that connects sports gamblers with stock traders? How about Indian fine dining? There’s no way you guessed that. Stop it.

I build intelligence at scale. My work exists at the intersection of seamless functionality and futuristic design, crafting systems where AI meets human intuition. Currently building the AI-native stack for the Office of the CFO. Previously architecting web-scale RAG and natural language understanding for the world's largest platforms. A hearty welcome to the indie web Nikhil. Now, please add RSS support to your site as well. Thank you.

This is what nano banana (pro) generated based on what it knew of gurupanguji.com. The distillation of information is so powerful. That image is dense with insights. If you squint at it a little, this is a path to much more powerful targeting. User profiles can now be far more dense and processed far more easily to distill new targeting options. Digital ad targeting is going to level up dramatically.

An infographic compares the sizes of New Glenn 7×2 rocket (left) and the 9×4 variant (right) with the Apollo-era Saturn V rocket at center. (Blue Origin Illustration) Blue Origin said the 9×4 model will be capable of carrying more than 70 metric tons to low Earth orbit (vs. 45 tons for the 7×2), more than 14 tons to geosynchronous orbit, and more than 20 tons on a trip from Earth to the moon. That would make New Glenn 9×4 more powerful than SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket (64 tons to LEO), but less powerful than SpaceX’s Starship (100 to 150 tons to LEO).

But it would be uncouth for me to pretend that there isn’t some self-interest involved. Being in charge of a social media project is, turns out, quite the stressful endeavour, and I don’t have the right personality for it. I think I need not elaborate that the passion so many feel for social media does not always manifest in healthy ways.

Older methods for archiving text messages often relied on carrier-level logging, which is incompatible with modern encrypted messaging. Our new solution allows third-party archival apps to integrate directly with Google Messages on a work device. When configured by your IT organization on a fully managed device, the archival application is notified upon the receipt of each RCS message, not only when a message is sent or received, but also if a message is edited or deleted too.

Essentially, I think the story of these circular deals is really no different than the big macro story about the AI boom itself. AI is the most promising technology out there, and we’re simply betting a lot of our economy on the hope that we can exploit its full potential. Should we worry about AI's circular deals? - by Noah Smith

The new AI model, WeatherNext 2, can generate forecasts eight times faster than Google’s previous model, and is also more accurate in predicting 99.9 percent of variables like temperature or wind. WeatherNext 2 can pump out hundreds of potential outcomes from a particular starting point. It takes less than a minute using one of Google’s TPU chips to make a prediction, which the company says would typically take several hours to accomplish using physics-based models on a supercomputer.

Why take on additional supply chain risks adding another dependency when an LLM can likely kick out the subset of functionality needed by your own code to-order? > I still believe in open source, and I’m still doing it (in fits and starts). But one thing has become clear to me: the era of small, low-value libraries like blob-util is over.

This is delightful.

I love giving life to old computers. Over the weekend, I got my son a used M1 Macbook Air and so a 2014 intel based 13" Macbook Pro that was flashed with Chrome OS Flex became available to tinker. I immediately got started setting up omarchy on it. Honestly, it's been a lot of fun setting it up. There are many things I don't like about DHH. However, we do share some similar sentiments and I guess tastes around how to setup a linux distro. I've been tinkering with linux distros since 2002 when I got my very first computer.

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“Tabs were great, but we haven’t seen a lot of browser innovation since then.” These are brave words spoken by the CEO of a company that's using Chromium to power their new browser, which, at the time of writing this, they even failed to attribute correctly. I wish I could say I'm shocked, but this is a company led by someone who thinks artists, creators, writers, etc should not be paid for their work. ChatGPT Atlas isn't competing against other browsers - Stephanie Stimac's Blog I shed a tear. The announcement of atlas is done by people I worked with and respect a lot - Ben Goodger, Darin Fisher.

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One of the great causes of suffering is this maddening worry about what others think of us. I can go into its causes by pointing to evolutionary psychology and our hunter-gatherer roots, but that’s neither novel nor interesting. Rather, I want to delve into the asymmetry between what we know about ourselves, and the uncertainty surrounding what others know of us.

The entire vibe of this is just delightful. I don't think a product has made me feel this way in a long time. I want this.

Reddit is suing Perplexity and three “data-scraping service providers” to “stop the industrial-scale, unlawful circumvention of data protections by a group of bad actors who will stop at nothing to get their hands on valuable copyrighted content on Reddit,” according to the complaint. Reddit sues Perplexity for allegedly ripping its content to feed AI | The Verge 🍿