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Mark Zuckerberg had a bold plan to replace Meta staff with AI. Here's how it imploded. — Internal data was also suggesting that autonomous AI "agent" technology at the heart of the strategy was failing to deliver hoped-for productivity gains. Some investors were questioning what Meta had to show for its gargantuan spending on AI.

Training AI to Paint with Code — "To make work truly yours when you're engaging with these tools, you have to devote your attention and effort to the process"

AI Is Rewriting The Rules Of Product Development — As the cost of execution falls, however, a new constraint emerges. Many companies can now prototype, build and launch products far faster than they can market them. As AI reduces the cost of experimentation, knowing what to build, when to build it and how to create value from it becomes more important.

Sick of A.I. Slop? So Are Tech Giants. — Generative A.I. can produce increasingly realistic images, audio and videos, but only some of it qualifies as slop. Tech companies are largely targeting the kind of low-grade clickbait that is easy to make, spread, consume and forget — the fast fashion edging out couture, the pink slime subsuming the steak.

Anthropic's 'Watermark' Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing — My error was believing Anthropic that their system wouldn't adulterate and corrupt the semantics of the text their models generate.

Expert Witness Used ChatGPT to Write Report Defending Company in Deadly Explosion Lawsuit — The report that Autenrieth submitted to the court is structured the same as the initial output given by ChatGPT and large swaths of it are identical to what ChatGPT first outputted and the revisions that it recommended in Autenrieth's subsequent chats.

Suspecting court of using AI, man injected prompts in filings to try to win case — In his defense, Elliott claimed that the most concerning prompt that the judge flagged was an attempt to "audit" the court as a public service, out of fears that the court seemed to be letting AI unfairly decide cases.

How to measure the customer experience as AI scales — Traditional support metrics weren't designed for AI handling most of your conversations.

On AI Coding and Its Discontents — This doesn't mean that coders will abandon AI; its facility with programming languages is too valuable to ignore. But I think there's a lot more work to be done trying to figure out how to integrate AI into this industry in a way that actually works.

How Reasoning Tokens Work in LLMs — Reasoning tokens can turn a 300 token answer into a 2,000 token bill, and most people never see it happen.

Do Machines Dream of Rainforests? — Claudia Ross went to Dataland and all she got was a lousy L'Oréal-induced face rash

Replit's CEO on building a company that can run itself — After spending 15 years making coding easier to learn, he now tells people not to bother learning it at all.

Italy Travel Guide Arrives With an Infuriating Leftover AI Prompt Printed Inside — An unfinished chatbot exchange made it into print

Why AI-generated vulnerability patches still require expert human review — We studied what happens when Large Language Models (LLMs) generate vulnerability patches for recently disclosed, complex vulnerabilities.

AI assistant hacks gym website in first known Australian autonomous cyber attack — Minutes later, his AI agent reported it had discovered a way to book Andrew into classes several weeks in advance, far beyond what was supposed to be possible.

AI Is Rewriting The Rules Of Product Development — Products That Count, a global nonprofit network that supports over 500,000 product managers, describes product builders as individuals who combine product thinking, technical fluency, design judgment and business understanding to move quickly from idea to outcome.

How AI turns product managers back into builders — The goal isn't to build the next viral AI app. It's to practice making things that are fast, small, and useful.

Satya Nadella ơn A.I. Jobs: Humans Will Do the 'Glue Work' —

My PM role seems to be quite... threatened. My company has been exploring Forward Deployed Engineers (FDE's). The FDE assigned to the department I interact with most is completely bypassing me and even the dev team... —