Jeremy

Imagine being a pro athlete and your weight loss makes national news.

Mercedes-Benz will let you use an in-car camera in Microsoft Teams while driving The all-new CLA gets this first

Cannot think of something more user-hostile than distracting people with Teams messages while driving.

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I wonder what techno-speak we’ll settle on for agents. “Take over” sounds like a coup. A singular verb that’s both powerful but not too ominous.

“Pilot”
“Guide”
“Operator”

Biggest lie of corporate PM life is “[Exec Name] says it’s okay to use existing artifacts for the meeting.”

Totally agree that you don’t want runaway costs. I guess I’m just saying what comes back isn’t necessarily methodologically sound. Cloudflare’s conflating “AI that can buy and summarize sources” with “AI that can do research.” But I have hope future models will be far more sophisticated.

3/ The real power here isn’t giving an agent $50 to “buy research.” It’s an AI that can evaluate whether a paywalled paper is worth purchasing based on how it advances the current investigation. That’s actual research methodology, not content shopping.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

2/ The “deep research with a budget” example feels off though. Real research isn’t shopping with spending limits, it’s investigative work that follows citation trails and adapts based on findings. An AI should justify paying for sources because they fill research gaps, not fit budgets.

Introducing pay per crawl: Enabling content owners to charge AI crawlers for access Pay per crawl is a new feature to allow content creators to charge AI crawlers for access to their content.

1/ Cloudflare’s out here doing god’s work with pay-per-crawl. Finally, content creators can get paid instead of just blocking AI or giving it away free.

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This is such a strange, almost soap-operatic moment in tech.

Really interesting. This makes the “set it and forget it” vision for AI feel out of reach—most folks won’t become fluent, and some may get less productive. The reality is messier than the hype, at least for now. Still, the models are evolving fast, so maybe the vision isn’t dead, just deferred.

The METR study found AI tools slowed down experienced devs in code-heavy IDEs. Makes me wonder if a terminal-native tool like Claude Code—no code visualization, just pure text—changes the equation? Curious if the interface is the real bottleneck. h/t @brianmc.bsky.social

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Using Claude-Swarm to Upgrade Ruby Projects One of my colleagues wrote a pretty awesome tool called claude-swarm that orchestrates multiple Claude Code instances as a collaborative AI development team. At Shopify, we are attempting to use it to...

A potential intermediary solution for us while we wait for background agents. It wraps around Claude Code and helps orchestrate many agents at once.

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Gross

What if the Big Bang wasn’t the beginning? Our research suggests it may have taken place inside a black hole In this blog, Professor Enrique Gaztanaga from the Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation writes for The Conversation.

Black hole physics are mind-boggling.

Tl;dr: Our universe might be inside a black hole, so the Big Bang was just our local beginning. Time and space as we know them only exist within this black hole.

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I guess the market was expecting more from WWDC.

My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts My smartest friends have bananas arguments about LLM coding.

It’s funny how the people best equipped to ride the next wave are often the ones most content to watch it roll by from the shore.

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Khosla Ventures among VCs experimenting with AI-infused roll-ups of mature companies | TechCrunch VC firms are pioneering a new investment strategy: acquiring established businesses and optimizing them with AI to boost efficiency and customer reach.

“The companies we’re looking at are very unlikely to lose money.” There’s something almost performance-art funny about a VC uttering that line with a straight face.

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AI news is dropping so fast I half expect Shams to announce a new model signed with Microsoft on a four-year max deal.

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The myth that you can “one-shot” your way to mastery is wild. AI and model makers keep selling shortcuts, but the real game is built in the margins—awkward silences, late-night edits, watching someone seasoned handle chaos with a look.

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Not a chance, Gerrit.

I spoke to a PM at Max today who found out about the name change on Twitter/X.

He works on the Max app.

all thanks to you

I finally feel like there's such thing as a 10x PM now (i.e., conversant with AI-assisted tools, knows how to get the most out of them to accelerate development).

Nelson Mandela wearing pistons gear.

Walking into Game 1 at MSG like.

My prd was at go/affiliations internally.

I wonder if this still works inside X.

I feel for you, friend. Hoping for a speedy recovery.

TV
- Adolescence
- The Pitt
- The Day of the Jackal
- White Lotus S3

Film
- Anora
- The Brutalist
- Sing, Sing

In defense of Gemini a kvetch

“Gemini needs a skunkworks team to bring this whole thing together. Right now it feels like disjointed geniuses putting LLMs inside anything they can see - inside Colab or Docs or Gmail or Pixel.” www.strangeloopcanon.com/p/in-defense...

Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code Today, we’re announcing Claude 3.7 Sonnet, our most intelligent model to date and the first hybrid reasoning model generally available on the market.

Hell yeah. Claude Sonnet is my favorite LLM by far.

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The isolation and brutality of winter settings force characters to reckon with themselves differently than beach sunsets do. Less rosé-soaked delusion, more existential dread. When survival itself becomes luxury, the satire cuts deeper.