We are in a golden age for startups. A lot of AI startups will fail, but people will look back on this as a golden age to start a company. It is possible for a few smart people to do so much so fast. But the competition is doing the same! May the best startups win... #AI #startup

The best funnies reading on #AI this month is "Don't Use AI to Do This". I like the closing : I believe in an old-fashioned virtue called Doing the Freakin’ Work. Read the book, not the summary. Write the piece, not the prompt. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/o...

The New York Times tackles AI interpretability. I found this helpful as a summary of interpretability efforts for language models - but the article is a big disappointment because it completely ignored the most important interpretability method of the last decade, SHAPley game-theory explanations.

Sextuple screening on couch-ella weekend #coachella

Did you hear about the Medvi controversy? First, the The New York Times praised the company having billions in sales with just 2 guys and #AI. Then Futurism broke the story that it seems to be a massive fraud.

According to @garymarcus.bsky.social Marcus - IMHO one of the few actually believable people in the world of #AI. Why not? 1. Big Tech wants you to believe it has created artificial general intelligence. That doesn’t make it true. fortune.com/2026/04/01/a...

I've been getting into #agents and learning about #langchain and #langgraph. Are there any other tools or frameworks you would recommend?

Jason M. Lemkin of SaaStr Ai discusses the unique #churn challenges for #genai companies : Prompts are too portable! (for the vendors) www.saastr.com/the-wave-of-...

#AI sells, but it doesn't stick according to RevenueCat - AI apps have 30% higher #churn rate, and a 20% higher rate of refund requests.

Antenna released their 2025 State of Subscriptions report. #churn in #SVOD was fairly stable in 2025, 4.6% average, but with a big spike on Disney/Hulu due to Jimmy Kimmel's brief "indefinite" suspension 😆 40% of churned subscribers returned within 12 months = Winback for the Win!

This is the funniest #AI news I heard all week. I almost wish I was on the @microsoft.com @discord.com just to witness it. www.ibtimes.com/microsoft-di.... #AIHype Shout out to @i-dont-like-ai.bsky.social for calling it to my attention. Long live #microslop!

Everyone talks about "vibe coding" which means an unskilled person generating code. What is it called when a skilled person uses the #AI as their team of junior developers, giving instructions on what to build and reviewing code in a really knowledgeable and thoughtful manner?

Apparently #AI is pretty unpopular. (Except for programmers who generally love it.) Why do you think that is? This is in comparison to the long history of previous tech booms including mobile phones, the internet, eletricity, the automobile, etc. Gift article link: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/t...

Are you feeling the #AI burn-OUT? Everyone is coding so fast with Claude-Code and Cursor that you are SWAMPED IN PR REVIEWS? You are not alone! The Harvard Business Review reports AI intensifies work: hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d... TechCrunch reports on the burnout: techcrunch.com/2026/02/09/t...

The story that #AI produced so much growth in 2025 because of data center spending? Turns out it was too good to be true. #AIHype www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Are LLM's like brains? Scientists at UCLA tackled the question and wrote this paper: Illusions of Alignment Between Large Language Models and Brains Emerge From Fragile Methods and Overlooked Confounds TLDR: No similarity between LLM's and real brains. #AIHype #LLM www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

LLM reasoning still has so many flaws that Stanford and Caltech researchers wrote an entire journal article categorizing them! 🤯 The paper is in Transactions on Machine learning Research, available on Arxiv: arxiv.org/pdf/2602.06176 #LLM #LLMHype #AI #AIHype #AIBubble

The The New York Times asked 8 "leading thinkers" on the direction AI is taking us in the near and long term. TLDR? Here is a quick summary of the consensus... Gift link for the full article: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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

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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