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Will these models eventually replace all knowledge work, leaving lawyers, doctors, product managers, software developers, and others out of a job?

If the benefits were shared across humanity, that could bring us closer to utopia. My worry is that we’ll instead end up with a handful of even wealthier billionaires and millions of people out of work.

I went from IDE (VS Code) to terminal (wezterm) running half a dozen agents in an app called Herdr. My computer work is mostly in the terminal now, prompting agents. And they have access to my Obsidian vaults. Can read, and add to them. And access all my notes via a local RAG. I neither need projects in Claude, nor IDEs. Just agents accessing my local vaults and code repos.

I don’t understand the downvotes. It’s perfectly reasonable to disagree, but the argument is laid out clearly. Why not engage with it instead?

Some 20 years ago, the telecommunications sector in Germany was liberalized. Many telephone card providers entered what had previously been a barely competitive market. They advertised their products with aggressive claims like: “Buy our €10 top-up card and get 660 minutes to destination X.”

For the first few weeks, they would actually provide those 660 minutes to establish trust in their cards. But after a while, they would quietly start reducing the number of minutes on subsequent top-ups—say, from 660 minutes down to only 300. They wouldn’t do this for every card, so it was difficult to prove. Instead, they relied on averages across their customer base to make the economics work.

Lately, I’ve found myself wondering whether something similar may be happening with frontier AI models. Companies launch with an exceptionally strong model and generous compute limits to build adoption. Once the model is established as a market leader, the incentives change, and users may start perceiving the service as becoming more constrained or less capable over time.

I don’t have evidence that this is what’s happening with Anthropic—or with any other AI company. It’s simply a pattern that the current situation reminds me of.

Which prompt, though? Just the initial one, or the entire conversation? During a project you’ll prompt the agent dozens of times. Are all of those prompts considered the source?

For those who moved away from GitHub: do you miss the social/discovery side of it?

I mean things like comments on issues/PRs, stars, followers, finding existing repos, seeing which projects are popular, and getting drive-by contributions.

Or does that matter less than I imagine once you self-host and mirror public repos back to GitHub/Codeberg?

I‘d go with Scheme. You‘ll learn the basics in a day. The language spec is only a few pages. And Scheme reads like pseudo-code with parentheses.

Wouldn’t a modern app like iA Wtiter or any other distraction free full screen text based writer be just as good? Or why does WordStar still have his fanbase decades later?

What is the incentive of the U.S. government? Is it to prevent adversaries from accessing this powerful technology? Because of security concerns? Or is there a fear that European, Asian, Latin American, and other companies could use it to build competitive products? What happened to free trade? What about all of humanity advancing and making progress?

Are GPT 5.5 and Opus 4.8 the last models we're going te be allowed to use in Europe? Is there going to be a cut, and we're only be allowed to use less capabale models outside of the US?

I mean, if they deem Fable 5 to powerful to share with the rest of the world, what's left for us?

What?

M5 Max MacBook Pro: $4,099 (up from $3,599)

M3 Ultra Mac Studio: $5,299 (up from $3,999

How can this be explained with price increases in Ram prices?

Come on Apple, don’t be so greedy. Make money but don’t bleed us.

I suspect AI is replacing my need for productivity content much faster than it’s replacing my need for books.

I read fewer blog posts, fewer newsletters, fewer “10 lessons from…” articles, and fewer productivity videos than I did three years ago.

But I still buy books.

The first casualties seem to be the intermediaries, not necessarily the original sources.

Congrats to the Cursor team. Unbelievable success. Can’t imagine how their live suddenly will change.