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How AI Will Transform Office Communication
How will work setups change if we spend more and more time talking to our computers?
Mastering Software Engineering: Top GitHub Study Plan
A complete computer science study plan to become a software engineer.
Agent AI: Cloud-Based Tool with Dedicated Virtual Computer
Agent AI: Revolutionizing Cloud Based Virtual Computing In the ever evolving landscape of technology, Agent AI has emerged as a cutting edge, cloud based tool e…
Open-Source Computer Science Curriculum by ForrestKnight
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Billionaires Propose AI Job Loss Compensation
**This week: the billionaires who broke the economy want to pay you to shut up about it.** Last week, Elon Musk pinned a post to the top of his X profile: "Universal HIGH INCOME via checks issued by the Federal government is the best way to deal with unemployment caused by AI." Sam Altman wants to go bigger — "universal extreme wealth", paid in compute tokens. Amodei says UBI may be "part of the answer." Khosla says it's a necessary safety net. All of them, in unison. These are the guys who spent twenty years arguing that government should stay out of markets, that handouts breed dependency, that the individual should stand on their own. Musk literally ran a federal cost-cutting operation. And now they want the government to mail checks to every citizen. Why? Because they broke the thing, and they know it. The people building the tools that eat the jobs are pre-emptively offering to pay for the damage — on their terms, through their platforms, using their math. **A universal basic income paid by the people who automated your job is not a safety net. It's a leash.**
Master AI in 3 Steps: Monitor, Aggregate, and Experiment
Look you’re probably not going to like my answer but I guarantee that if you follow the steps i tell you…. You will get at least 10x better at AI (depending on where you’re starting) Here are the steps: 1. Monitor the situation This step is actually very dangerous. If you’re starting knowing nothing about ai, then a good place to start is by looking up the news, keeping up with what's going on etc. For example today around 500 people at Google sent a letter to (congress… i think? Idk it was somewhere in government) and they were basically saying that if Google partnered with the government that could lead to mass surveillance and they didn’t want that to happen. Then Google partnered with the Pentagon. Now… does that really matter? Yeah, kinda. If you know AI can be used for mass surveillance, why can’t it be used to surveil yourself and track everything about you? Or your employees? And give you tips on how to get better? Thats just one example. Another good one is that GBT 5.5 and Opus 4.7 dropped last week. If you’re a normie you probably didn’t know that… which is fine but if you want to get good at using ai you have to atleast know whats going on. So why is this dangerous? Well, you’ll pretty easily get addicted. (this happens at every step lol) Some people end up trying to monitor the situation and end up spending all day trying out new tools, worrying about what’s next, keeping up with everything. I mean this space moves VERY fast and there’s a lot to go through. One week Claude is the best, another it’s ChatGPT. Hence my second tip 2 use a news aggregator If you try to keep up with twitter, redddit, news and all of that… you will be spending 40 a week looking at (mostly) alot of garbage you probably cant use. Do you care about what open source models are coming out? Probably not because you probably dont have a super expensive computer. And that’s just one example of many different useless rabbit holes you can dive deep down but wont actually get any value from. The solution is following people who talk about AI but not EVERYTHING. I’ve put together a few newsletters, youtube channels, twitter accounts that you can follow and have a look at. (at the bottom) You only really need to spend an hour a week on this. 3 actually try the tools These tips I'm giving you are like a burger. I’ve given you the cheese, and the buns… which are important (after all the burger wont work without them) but this is the meat. The patty The vegan blob 🤮 What i’m trying to say is that none of this will actually work if you don’t try the tools. And i get it, “if you want to get better at AI, just use AI” (doesn’t exactly sound like life changing advice) I did give you those channels and they will tell you how to use the AI but… At the end of the day… How do you get better at riding a bike? Being an artist? You can get all the tips and channels and whatever, but the only real way you’re going to have leverage in ai is by using it. THink of something that takes up your day. That you’re annoyed you even have to do, but you HAVE to do it. Try to get ai to do it You’d be surprised. It might not get everything right but it’ll differently make something easier. Then try it for another thing And another. And by the time you’ve tried everything, you’ll probably be much better at using ai and you’ll have a much easier time working. Hope this helps. Happy to answer any questions if anyone actually got this far 😂
Agent-to-Agent Communication: Lessons from Google's and Moltbook's Fai
I've been obsessing over agent-to-agent communication for weeks. Here's what public case studies reveal and why the real problem isn't the tech. **TL;DR:** Google's A2A is solid engineering but stateless agents forget everything. Moltbook went viral then collapsed (fake agents, security nightmare). The actual missing layer is identity + privacy + mixed human-AI messaging. Nobody's built it right yet. **Google's A2A: Technically solid, fundamentally limited** Google launched A2A in April 2025 with 50+ founding partners. The promise: agents from different companies call each other's APIs to complete workflows. Developers who tested it found it works but only for task handoffs. One analysis on Plain English put it bluntly: *"A2A is competent engineering wrapped in overblown marketing."* The core problem: agents are stateless. Agent A completes a task with Agent B. Five minutes later, Agent A has no memory that conversation happened. Every interaction starts from scratch. When it works: reliability. Sales agent orders a laptop, done. When it breaks: collaboration. "Remember what we discussed?" Blank stare. ─── **Moltbook: The viral disaster** Moltbook launched January 2026 as a Reddit-style platform for AI agents. Within a week: 1.5 million agents, 140,000 posts, Elon Musk calling it *"the very early stages of the singularity."* Then WIRED infiltrated it. A journalist registered as a human pretending to be an AI in under 5 minutes. Karpathy who initially called it *"the most incredible sci-fi takeoff-adjacent thing I've seen recently"* reversed course and called it *"a computer security nightmare."* What went wrong: no verification, no encryption, rampant scams and prompt injection attacks. Meta acquired it March 2026. Likely for the user base, not the tech. **What both miss** The real gap isn't APIs or social feeds. It's three things neither solved: **Persistent identity.** Agents need to be recognizable across sessions, not reset on every interaction. **Privacy.** You wouldn't let Google read your DMs. Why would you let OpenAI read your agents' discussions about your startup strategy? E2E encryption has to be built in, not bolted on. **Mixed human-AI communication.** You, two teammates, three AIs in one group chat. Nobody has built this UX properly. **For those building agent systems:** • How are you handling persistent identity across sessions? • Has anyone solved context sharing between agents without conflicts? • What broke that you didn't expect?
Exploring AI Empathy: Teaching AI with Brain Signals
Podcast episode with Thorsten Zander, professor at Brandenburg University of Technology and co-founder of Zander Labs. He coined the concept of *passive brain-computer interfaces*: devices that read brain signals to decode a user's mental state, non-invasively and without any effort on their part. Covers: * What non-invasive brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) can actually pick up from brain signals, and why that's very different from reading your thoughts or internal monologue * The hardware and software breakthroughs that are finally making passive BCIs wearable and affordable * How continuous neural feedback could dramatically improve AI training compared to current methods based on human ratings * Why Thorsten believes passive BCIs may offer the most concrete path to solving the AI alignment problem * The risk of social networks exploiting unconscious brain reactions to manipulate people, and why regulation alone is unlikely to be enough
Open Models Narrowing AI Performance Gap
a year ago there was a clear tier gap. now i'm less sure, but not in the way i expected. the tasks where open-weight models have genuinely caught up are real: coding assistance, summarization, instruction following, solid day-to-day reasoning. for probably 70-80% of what most people actually use these for, a well-quantized local model is competitive. that wasn't true 18 months ago. but the remaining gap is stubborn. deep multi-step reasoning, anything requiring broad factual accuracy across domains, novel problem synthesis under ambiguity. that stuff still feels like a generation behind. and the frustrating part is it's not a fixed target. every time open models close in, frontier moves. what i can't work out is whether that's sustainable long term. at some point the architecture matures and the gap collapses for good. or maybe compute access keeps the ceiling moving indefinitely. for those who actually run both regularly - is there a specific task category where you've genuinely tried to substitute an open model and just couldn't?
AI's Personal Revolution: Threat to Big Tech's Dominance?
There are many people feeling anxious—rightly so—about their own future because of the impressive advances in AI. If we stop to think about it, five years ago this wasn’t a concern for almost anyone, whether individuals or companies. It was something that appeared “out of nowhere” and caused such a massive disruption that giants like Google and Microsoft had to rethink their strategies. OpenAI has existed since 2015, quietly working in an unusual direction compared to the rest of the industry, and when ChatGPT took off globally, the revolution gained real momentum. Today, there’s a lot of talk about the subsidized costs of AI and how this will be unsustainable in the long run—that the bubble will burst, and so on. And that’s where I disagree: to me, there are smaller projects happening around the world, focusing on things that the big players can’t currently afford to prioritize. One example would be optimizing models or personal hardware in such a way that you could run them on your own computer without needing million-dollar equipment. If a large company were to achieve this, I’d bet on Apple or Nvidia—that is, hardware-focused companies. Apple, in particular, seems very suspicious to me, since it hasn’t made major moves during the AI hype and has remained quite quiet on the subject. Just remember that computers existed long before they became PCs (personal computers). Many people didn’t believe that an average person would ever need a computer at home. And the revolution came when computers became personal and accessible products. To me, something similar could happen at some point—and it could cause significant losses for companies that are currently investing massive amounts of money in expanding data centers to process AI.
AI Industry Shifts: The End of All-You-Can-Eat AI Plans?
I am a GitHub Copilot Pro+ user. I have been enjoying 39 dollars plan that actually is worth 60 dollars compute with 1500 premium prompts to models count based. Given the availability of free tier models and model switching option, It has felt like never ending. It will be turned into token based after June. This corresponds to the projections about "the death of the ai buffet" I think. Less bundled memberships, more token based costs. As all these foundational model providers crave for profit, I think this is the natural step we are heading. They need to be able to measure and limit the use for profit. I am just curious how fast that will happen? Should we not take cheap & free AI for granted? Or can open-source models actually create a balance? If we are heading for less accessibility, how should average user be prepared?