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Does intelligence need a hard cap?

OpenAI connects the Dots

AI agents got so good that this top Meta exec quit her job

Every's Dan Shipper on the "dirty secret" of writing with AI

An LLM wiki changed how I work

Town's CEO on the self-organizing company
The future of productivity software is shifting from manual workspace management to proactive, self-organizing AI assistants. Jean-Denis Greze, CEO of the startup Town, argues that traditional tools like Notion require excessive user maintenance, whereas AI-native assistants can autonomously handle email triaging, meet...

Replit's CEO: "You Don't Need to Code Anymore"

How much of my boss's job can AI do?

This AI notetaker won't sell surveillance to your boss

A big week for AI denialism

The case for making your own apps

He tried 200 to-do apps so you don't have to

Vibe coding has escaped the terminal

Why Amazon is hiring 11,000 junior employees

Why this founder isn't hiring junior employees anymore

How to help people who lose their jobs to AI

A labor economist explains why AI won't take your job

Claude Code creator Boris Cherny on the end of the software engineer
Software engineering is undergoing a fundamental shift as AI agents increasingly automate coding tasks, potentially rendering the traditional software engineer title obsolete within a year. Boris Cherny, creator of Claude Code, reports that he has not written code in six months, instead leveraging AI to ship dozens of ...

Why Doomers Are Wrong about AI and Jobs with Google's James Manyika
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