The Humans in the Loop

The Humans in the Loop: Dollars and Cents This Week in AI for Devs: Inference Doesn't Grow on Trees

This week's edition of #AI news for #dev teams covers:

- The future of #inference (and how much it costs)
- #DORA on the AI capabilities engineering teams should optimize for
- @steipete.me and Charles Porch joining #OpenAI

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The Humans in the Loop: The Hottest Bot This Week in AI for Devs: Folks, You Hear About This Moltbot Thing?

This week's #AI news for busy #devs covers:

- The #Moltbot (#Clawdbot) and #Moltbook saga
- @mitchellh.com on #AIAdoption
- The #LLM #agent cost curve
- OpenAI retiring #GPT4
- #GOOG and #AWS' $100B+ #AIInfra investments

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The Humans in the Loop: Let's Build This Week in AI for Devs: Lots of New Agentic Building Resources

This week's #AI #dev news:

- #Agentic resources from
@addyosmani.bsky.social, Lance Martin, Gregor Žunič
- Agentic #memory by Leonie Monigatti
- @cloudflare.social acquires Human Native
- @jgownder.bsky.social: "AI hasn't improved #productivity"

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The Humans in the Loop: Open for Business This Week in AI for Devs: AI Leaders Start the New Year Swinging

2026's first #AI new update for busy #devs covers:

- #Meta aquiring Manus
- #Alphabet aquiring Intersect
- #Cursor acquiring Graphite
- #Nvidia acqui-hiring @groq.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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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

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: TOON Data Serialization with Johann Schopplich A Special-Edition Interview on How Changing Data Serialization Saves $$ on LLM Tokens

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: Holiday Reading This Week in AI for Devs: Learning Resources to Cleanse the Palette

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: Here's a Billion, Go Build a Data Center This Week in AI for Devs: The Great Global AI Buildout Begins

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: Cashing in Chips Again This Week in AI for Devs: Is the AI War Becoming the Chip War?

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: When You Get the Money, You Get the Power This Week in AI for Devs: AI Resources, But at What Cost?

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: Is AI a "Thing" Yet? This Week in AI for Devs: Why We're Not There Yet

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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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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The Humans in the Loop: The Elephant in the Room This Week in AI for Devs: The Article Everyone's Talking About

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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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.

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...

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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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

The Humans in the Loop: The Reliability Problem This Week in AI for Devs: Giving AI the Power to Delete

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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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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The Humans in the Loop: Your Agent Army Awaits This Week in AI for Devs: Will It All Be MCP Agents, All the Time?

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: I/O, BUILD, Anthropic Dev Day This Week in AI for Devs: Conference Season Breakdown

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: What Happens to Junior Devs? This Week in AI for Devs: An Endangered Species?

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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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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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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The Humans in the Loop: Big Money, No Whammies This Week in AI for Devs: AI's Biggest Fish Get Bigger

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: Nvidia's Long Road This Week in AI for Devs: Headwinds for the Chip Giant

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: Where's the Money, Lebowski? This Week in AI for Devs: Is AI Making Cents (and Dollars)?

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: Why AI Won't Replace Human Coders Yet This Week in AI for Devs: Humans Still Better at Finding Root Causes

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: DeepSeek Aftermath This Week in AI for Devs: Moving on From the Blast Radius

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: What Are All These AI CEOs Doing in DC? This Week in AI for Devs: AI CEOs Go to Washington

This week's edition of #AI news for busy #developers covers AI CEOs at the #inauguration, the future of @stackoverflow.com.web.brid.gy and @bytedance.bsky.social, the highly performant and open-source reasoning model #DeepSeekR1, and much more: thehumansintheloop.substack.com/p/the-humans...