Subhankar Sarkar

@subhankarsarkar.com

Optimistic observer of shifting tech

The biggest blocker to AgenticAI transformation in Finance and related industries isn’t the model. It's the uncontrolled spreadsheet chaos. Fix the excel first. AI agents cannot organize human spreadsheet chaos yet in a cost effective manner.

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R.I.P IDE All AI coding apps these days: • Giant prompt box • Endless chat sessions • Model selector • Tool selector Meanwhile the actual IDE is now just a small link hiding in the corner. The interface to software creation is no longer code-first. It’s intent-first.

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The junior software engineer of the future is like a Civil Engineer. They don't personally lay every brick (the agent does that), but they must understand the physics of the bridge, the soil it sits on, and the stress loads it will carry. If the bridge falls, "the agent did it" isn't an excuse.

OpenAI has unveiled o3, the successor to the o1 “reasoning” model it released earlier in the year. Like o1, o3 is a model family. There’s o3 and o3-mini, a smaller, distilled model fine-tuned for particular tasks. ​Read more: tcrn.ch/41LuR9X

OpenAI announces new o3 models

A new free tier of GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code. ✅ 2,000 code completions per month 💬 50 chat messages per month 💫 Models like Claude 3.5 Sonnet or GPT-4o ♥️ More fun for you Check it out today! Oh yeah, and we passed 150M developers on GitHub 💅 github.blog/news-insight...

Announcing 150M developers and a new free tier for GitHub Copilot in VS Code

Come and join 150M developers on GitHub that can now code with Copilot for free in VS Code.

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