The New Yorker had an great article by Cal Newport mocking the silicon valley fascination with "Agents" in 2025. AI industry leaders started 2025 saying "2025 is the year of the agent" and by years end had backtracked into "2025 is the start of the decade of the agent" #LLM #Agentic #AIHhype #AI

Maybe #GenAI really is just memorizing, says new research - it seems to be a form of "lossy compression". This actually may have a big impact on the copyright debate and legal challenges. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Bond investors are more risk averse than stock investors so they call out problems in business models. To build AI data centers investors are requiring rates above 9% coupon on bonds. - almost double the interest for similar non-data center bonds. #aibubble #aihype www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/b...

Are you worried about the quality of #AI generated code? A new study showed that AI generated code had 1.7X more issues, including 1.4X more critical issues. www.techradar.com/pro/security... #LLM #codegeneration #AIHype

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Want to read about the #AI -fest formerly known as the NeurIPS conference? I went a few times back in the early 2000's when it was just wonky researchers in a weird field at the intersection of computer science and neuroscience. Now even the The Wall Street Journal has done a writeup.

Do you want to know who's REALLY paying for all those new AI data centers? Investigative journalism at The New York Times finds it is off books "creative" investment vehicles that are ultimately funded by pension funds, university endowments and financial advisors www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/t...

Serious debate on the future of #GenAI at the NeurIPS conference... www.theinformation.com/articles/ais... (DM me for full text if you want to see the article) #aihype #ai

With so much talk about "Agents" these days, do you want an objective POV on what the tech can really do? TLDR: Progress has been rapid in the last year, but agents still have a long way to go! I recommend watching the Leader Board of the Carnegie Mellon "Agent Company" task completion benchmark.

Need some good #datascience #churn brainfood for the holiday weekend? There's a neat new research paper in Nature Magazine ScientificReports on using Extreme Learning nets to predict #churn! #dataskyence www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The New York Times is playing both sides of the AI bubble question this week: First, an update opinion piece: AI Is a Bubble. Maybe That's OK www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/o... Then, a more worrying view in business coverage: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/t... #AIHype #AIBubble #GenAI

Is LeCun an AI prophet or an opportunist who claims the ideas of others as his own? The Gary Marcus v. Yan LeCun flame war heats up... Maybe his own with a new startup will be a chance to see if reality can match his hype? WDYT? garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-false-... #AI #GenAI #NeuralNetworks

IMHO "Forward Deployed" was always just a fancy way of saying "services". Am I right? But I'm glad to see my old job is getting some respect! www.ft.com/content/9100... #AI #forwarddeployed #services

So now chatbots are "too big to fail" like the investment banks in 2007? Gimme a break! 🤯 www.wsj.com/tech/ai/is-o... DM if you want the full text article. #AIHype #AI #GenAI #Bubble

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Harvard Business Review weighs in on the #AI question - spoiler alert, they don't take a stand either way. hbr.org/2025/10/is-a... #AIHype #GenAI

Finally someone speaks for the silent majority on the "AI question" ... Thank you @anildash.com ! www.anildash.com/2025/10/17/t...

The latest outrageous #AIHype - "Erdos-gate" : GPT-5 had only surfaced existing research, but a senior penAI manager posted that GPT-5 had "found solutions to 10 (!) previously unsolved Erdős problems". the-decoder.com/leading-open...

Are you looking for TMI about AI? Look no further - the 2025 State of #AI report is here! I'm still wrapping my head around the information overload in this report 🤯 Please share your favorite finding in the report here! www.stateof.ai

More news from the intersection of AI and churn, my two favorite subjects: Vibe coding usage plunged after summer high. - Lovable down 40% since its peak - Vercel's v0 visits plunge 64% - Bolt.new slipped 27% since June www.businessinsider.com/ai-vibe-codi... #AI #genai #churn #aihype

I am officially a serial churner from GenAI products - in the last 6 months I have signed up and then canceled a month each of both Claude and Gemini. I was working on specific projects, hit the limits, and I signed up. Then I finished the projects, my usage dropped... #genai #churn

TLDR : AI has led to reasonable revenue growth for a few companies that are pioneering in AI, but no broader economic growth or productivity gains. www.businessinsider.com/ai-hype-cras... #AIHype #LLM

Are you an LLM AGI skeptic? Leading LLM AGI skeptic Gary Marcus has posted an op Ed in the New York Times: TLDR : scaling has really run out of steam. New approaches are needed. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/o... #aihype #llm #agi

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Are #AI and #churn your two favorite subjects? Then you are my BFF! But seriously, these two subjects combine in one great article... AI companies have set unbelievable records for rapid growth in ARR, but these companies have equally astonishing churn rates. #AIHype sifted.eu/articles/ai-...

This #AI report caused stocks to drop this week. Learnings & takeaways: - Buying tools is better than in-house apps - Back office automation most successful; most companies focus on sales and marketing. - managers should drive adoption, not an AI group #aihype finance.yahoo.com/news/mit-rep...

If the "productivity paradox" of the 90's is any guide, we should start to see AI impacting productivity numbers in about 10 years. So not seeing AI "pay off" yet should not come as a surprise. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/b... #AI #LLM #AIHYPE

A Warm welcome to my publisher @manning.com who has joined us on Bluesky 🎉. #learntocode #learndatascience

Do you want to know if "AI Agents" are ready for prime time or just hype? So did researchers at Carnegie Mellon University -- the results may surprise you! www.cs.cmu.edu/news/2025/ag... #AI #AIAgents #LLM #AIHype #AIResearch #CMU #Claude #Gemini #GPT4o

Has #DataScience Become a Pseudo Science? I came across this pretty scary/sad Reddit, Inc. thread - has "democratization" of data science with #AI tools lead to a collapse in standards? Here's my rant on the topic... www.reddit.com/r/datascienc...

How much does AI REALLY speed up programmers? The answer from the latest study may surprise you: For experienced open source developers, it actually slowed them down! According to a new study from metr.org (Model Evaluation and Threat Research). #LLM #AI #codegen

My PR to the #EconML #PyWhy #opensource #causalai project was merged! 🎉 I made a small contribution by allowing a flexible choice of evaluation metric for scoring both the first stage and final stage models in Double Machine Learning (#DML). #CausalInference #machinelearning #datascience

It's time for everyone's favorite annual American tradition, the Manning Publications Co. 4th of July Sale! 🎆 Now through Sunday - Great time to fight #churn with #datascience and #machine learning. www.manning.com/books/fighti...

Do you want to know whats driving streaming churn? StreamTV Insider released a nice breakdown of the Antenna streaming report with some good insights: www.streamtvinsider.com/video/ring-c... #svod #churn #streaming #subscription 🧵

Are you someone who works with code? Do you want to tell the hype from reality in #LLM coding assistants? Apple created a new coding benchmark #livecodebench with help from human Olympiad medalists, preventing contamination with continuously updated problems. Top findings 🧵

Want a new reference on subscription churn rates to benchmark against? Look no further! Stripe has entered the subscription benchmarks games with "The Stripe Guide to Churn" (Personally I can't get enough churn benchmarks 🙂 ) Highlights... #churn #churnrate #subscription

Meta will spend $72 BILLION this year to realize Zuck’s ambitions for AI. But they are delaying rollout, and it was caught cheating using a model hacked to do well on the benchmark test, according to WSJ. #LLM #AIHype #Genai www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta...

I don't think Hinton is ever going to live down saying “stop training radiologists”... But at least in this article he shows some contrition and acknowledges that he underestimated what radiologists do with their time. #AIhype #LLM #DataScience #machinelearning www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/t...

I commissioned an abstract painting of visual cortex from Anjiolina, so I can vouch for the fact that she is for real and does amazing work!

#Churn is in Nature Magazine Scientific reports! Its an interesting study looking at #SMOTE and a variety of different classifiers. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#AI #Hallucinations are getting worse, just when we were told they were going to get better 🤯 Apparently hallucinations snowball when the new gen of AI tries to "reason" #AIhype #GenAI #LLM Gift link to the full article: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/t...

Big news in the small world of Fighting #Churn With #DataScience The #opensource #python code for my book has been updated to support Python up to version 3.12! pypi.org/project/figh... Shoutout to Shaolang Ai for doing all the work on this! I only helped with testing. I appreciate you!

Check out this new compilation of #churn rates from Exploding Topics Compiled from a number of different sources, it includes #socialmedia apps, transportation, #finance, #retail and international comparisons. explodingtopics.com/blog/custome...

Don't worry software engineers! Your jobs are safe a little while longer - Researchers say #AI can't replace humans because it cannot reliably debug. 🐛 #AIHype much? #llm #genai #chatgpt #programming #softwareengineering arstechnica.com/ai/2025/04/r...

My Favorite #Subscription report is back! The Zuora Subscription Economy index - "#Churn leveled off (in 2024) and declined slightly across industries in the SEI after spiking in 2023 due mainly to rising interest rates" www.zuora.com/resource/sub... #churnrate #analytics #subscriptioneconomy

Heard about the AI 2027 forecast? I don't believe it. The least plausible part is a leap from AI coding to AI research - totally underestimates the vast spaces of plausible hypotheses that good researchers use their knowledge and understanding to prune down. #AI #aihype #GenAI #LLM #AI2027 #neuroai

Recurly published their 2025 State of #Subscriptions (I missed this back in Feb) - features industry #churnrates and a data on re-signups after churn: "Return acquisition percentage" for % of new signups that were previously subscribed. go.recurly.com/2025-state-o...

As a #neuroscience watcher on Bluesky who is no longer in the biz, I’ve become a bit confused these last few days: are #Cosyne2025 and #CNS2025 both happening right now? Or are some people getting hashtags mixed up in their posts? Or what?

Apple TV + feels the #Churn reported by Yahoo Finance: #churnrate 's from the Antenna report which I shared previously : Apple TV has 7% monthly churn, compared to Netflix's 2% finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-i....

Ask an #LLM "How can I do X with platform Y" the answer is "Absolutely, here is how to do X with Y..." But there are lots of hallucination from other platforms. After several errors I ask "Are you sure you can do X on Y?" - then it says, "You are correct, you cannot do X on Y. Here's why..." 🤯