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Excellent comparison of various LLMs doing AI image generations. Cool UI for looking at the output too. 🔗 GenAI Image Showdown

There’s a lot of knowledge work that can be automated: ‘Where Altman’s comment holds water is in what it hints at, even if it doesn’t spell it out. Most jobs aren’t fake, but many have accumulated layers of automatable junk: compliance checklists, reports nobody reads, emails summarizing meetings that could’ve been Slack threads. That’s the kind of “game-playing” work LLMs are already good at. When Altman says these models will wipe out tasks, not just roles, this is what he likely means.

What exactly does “thinking” mean? “Thinking harder”? Robin says: prospecting new analogies; sending your inquiry out away from the gravitational attractors of protocol and cliché; turning the workpiece around to inspect it from new angles; and especially bringing more senses into the mix." And, also that it is silent. We even have a phrase that shows the exception that makes the rule: “thinking out-loud.” Playing D&D with LLMs surfaces how different “thinking” is for AIs.

Quick and crude SVG battle maps for D&D can be efficiently generated using Claude, enhancing solo roleplaying without slowing down gameplay.

That title says it all. There are two people I think of here: Tyler Cowen is eternally optimistic. He may say he doesn’t like something or he thinks something is “not the best it could be,” but he’s rarely “negative,” and never bitter. James Watters, despite a rough couple of decades for PaaS (his life’s work) is eternally optimistic. He only talks about positive things and potential, not bitterness about rival technologies.

Meanwhile, humans are still making good Internet videos. 🔗 ✺ CHANNELVUE

‘“The availability of AI devices has also boosted overall spending by more than $30 billion,” Lovelock said. “With the replacement cycle unchanged, the stronger performance in 2025 will result in a lower relative growth rate for 2026, as demand has been pulled forward."’ 🔗 Global IT spend to exceed $6 trillion in 2026

Lots of new features coming in Sora. Clearly not just a side project. 🔗 Coming in the next versions of Sora

Does it seem right that computer systems that use billions of dollars of hardware, electricity, and clean water need my help to add line numbers to a few kilobytes of plain text? No, it does not. But at least this gives me deterministic results for one part of the processing. Recently, though, I’ve observed that Claude Skills are interestingly clever on the command line. Maybe agentic just means “can use Unix pipes.