OpenAI’s public response to Apple’s lawsuit claiming OpenAI is stealing trade secrets is spicy. It accuses Apple’s lawyers of being so incompetent that they emailed legal letters to the wrong Asian person then claimed OpenAI never responded.
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Reading the comments in response to my defending Elon Musk saying LLMs should skip generating source code and instead generate binaries.
The most important skill in prompting is expertise in the domain you’re prompting for is well understood in many corners. It is why hiring across the software industry now favors super ICs and experienced seniors over entry level hires. AI makes you more productive if you know what you’re doing.
LLMs reward expertise
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I’ve seen many engineers dunking on this position but I think it’s reasonable. Vibe coding is essentially replacing “no code” platforms and arguably the recent sale of Airtable is an indication of how that segment is compressing. Those users have no need for source code, it’s simply unnecessary.
CEO of KFC says he wants the company to focus less on fried chicken.
I was impressed Snap beat expectations until I realized it’s because they were low to begin with.
Bending Spoons is acquiring Airtable in a deal valuing the company at about $2.25B. A shock given it raised $1.4B and was valued at $11.7B in 2021. They built a good business but at $480M ARR that was insufficient to justify the huge valuation as they never became a ubiquitous enterprise platform.
Bending Spoons to buy Airtable for $1.28B | TechCrunch
At its peak in 2021, Airtable was valued at over $11 billion, but earlier this year, its shares were said to be trading on the secondary markets at a valuation of $4 billion.
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“The 10x engineer used to have better judgment than the 1x engineer, but by making everybody a 10x engineer, you're taking judgment away.” - Chamath Palihapitiya ~~ The idea that AI makes developers interchangeable cogs is the opposite of reality. It widens the gap between experts and novices.
If you’re a content creator, being pro-AI can seem as political a statement as wearing a MAGA hat. And just like supporting Trump, some people will be vocally against AI in public while enthusiastically using it in private. I call this the Hank Green paradox
Influencers draw backlash for attending OpenAI's first luxury trip | TechCrunch
OpenAI’s first-ever influencer brand trip is sparking online backlash as tensions over the use of AI continue.
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Me when someone asks if I’m tired of seeing the same four actors in movies all summer.
Daredevil while the events of Spider-Man: Brand New Day were unfolding.
“I will literally eat anything because I don’t have a gag reflex” - United States Secretary of Health and Human Services, RFK Jr, who used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats
Does it matter to you if the AI that steals your job is Made in China or is it important to you that it was built by red blooded Americans?
“What we see is, 10 blue links has driven tremendous value and growth to the broader ecosystem… from where we sit, AI Overviews has yet to make a similar level of positive impact” - Steve Huffman, Reddit CEO ~~ The goals of websites and Google have diverged. Google is now about answering questions.
You and I paying increased prices due to tariffs then corporations getting the refund is “trickle up economics.” Trump has invented even worse economic policies than Reagan.
Tariff refunds split companies as consumers demand share of $166B
Some firms say they will share a portion of the rebate from the Supreme Court striking down Trump's tariffs earlier this year.
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Capital One closed Trump’s bank accounts in 2021 for money laundering. We are at this point in America today because our two tier justice system has turned a blind eye to Trump’s crimes for decades. MAGA elevated him but he wouldn’t be there to elevate if our justice system worked.
Robinhood now makes more money from prediction markets than it does from stock trades or crypto. This adds weight to my theory that Bitcoin and crypto has crashed due to competition from Polymarket and Kalshi for the online gambler demographic.
People complain about employers wanting to replace them with AI then fall into the bad habit of responding to questions with “Claude said…” or sharing AI slop documents. They fail to realize that they’re making the case that they should be replaced with AI. Your coworkers can prompt Claude too.
Don't be a meat proxy
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Spider-Man: Brand New Day was great. The combat was amazing especially the ninjas, I loved seeing the Hulk back in action and the Punisher-Spidey dynamic worked really well. The movie nailed how much Peter sacrifices to be Spider-Man and how fundamentally good he is. Loved it. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ out of ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Alibaba’s Qwen3.8-Max is out, a frontier model they say is competitive with Anthropic’s Fable. It’s a 2.4T parameter model with a 1M context window and will open source the weights next week. Following so shortly after the release of Kimi K3, it’s hard to claim China is months behind the US in AI.
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Oracle has become the poster child for the AI bubble. It has $130B in debt and is taking on hundreds of billions more in data-center obligations based on a $300B contract with OpenAI over 5 years. The problem is many doubt OpenAI will make anywhere close to enough money to pay up.
Larry Ellison Bet It All on the A.I. Boom. Will He Be the Face of the A.I. Bubble?
Inside the 81-year-old billionaire’s risky, debt-fueled scramble to transform his data empire into an A.I. juggernaut.
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We know this is a lie because 100% of them voted for Trump who literally has lost a Supreme Court case over a rape case
Claude Code is like airplane WiFi. The first few times I encountered it, I was like “This is amazing and it changes everything.” After a few months I realized although it’s quite useful, it also kind of sucks. Now all I see are the ways it could be better but fails to live up to its promise.
“I think in 6 months we’re gonna see agents running for longer on average … We're gonna start to see Claude building bigger and bigger things. So it won't just be features, it's gonna be products. We might start to see entire startups being built by Claude.” - Boris Cherny, Claude Code dev lead
An AI generated tweet about how it’s important to avoid using AI generated Slack messages to ask your coworkers for help. 🙃 I’m surprised the solution proposed wasn’t to use ChatGPT to create an autoresponder to answer their questions. That way no one has to talk to anyone else ever again at work.
I feel like an old person for saying this but people are getting dumber and more entitled each year. I agree we all need to build defense mechanisms for a world where half the voters chose Trump and every major U.S. government cabinet member is a grifter that’s dumber than a pile of bricks.
I find it fascinating that if I tell Claude to hack my fake Bank of America website and it instead, in classic LLM fashion, hallucinates and hacks the real one then there is no law that addresses this? Quite the loophole. I wonder what other crimes are legal as long as you get an LLM to do it?
Whenever a frontier lab AI CEO says that AGI will create a utopia, I play out the following thought experiment; imagine the Trump administration had a computer that could answer any question correctly. Would that world be a utopia? Is the lack of AGI what prevents our world from being a utopia?