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adidoit commented on Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?    · Posted by u/kwar13
adidoit · a month ago
the ones that stood out were - Nostalgia for the Absolute by George Steiner - Digital Reversal by Andrew Mir - Vita Contemplativa by Byung-chul Han
adidoit commented on AI's real superpower: consuming, not creating   msanroman.io/blog/ai-cons... · Posted by u/firefoxd
adidoit · 2 months ago
Ironically this article/blog itself is giving off an AI-generated smell as it's tone and cadence seem very similar to LinkedIn posts or rather output of prompts to create LinkedIn posts.
adidoit commented on State of AI: An Empirical 100T Token Study with OpenRouter   openrouter.ai/state-of-ai... · Posted by u/anjneymidha
adidoit · 2 months ago
With studies like these it's important to keep in mind selection effects.

Most of the high volume enterprise use cases use their cloud providers (e.g., azure)

What we have here is mostly from smaller players. Good data but obviously a subset of the inference universe.

adidoit commented on Bronze Age mega-settlement in Kazakhstan has advanced urban planning, metallurgy   archaeologymag.com/2025/1... · Posted by u/CGMthrowaway
adidoit · 2 months ago
This is fantastic. I'm reminded of the Samo Burja thesis that civilization is actually a lot older when we think and ancient civilizations including the Bronze Age were much more advanced than we think.

With better imaging, tooling, and archaeological funding, I'm sure we'll find much more evidence like this

So many countries bronze and ancient ages are underexplored

adidoit commented on All it takes is for one to work out   alearningaday.blog/2025/1... · Posted by u/herbertl
adidoit · 2 months ago
At-bats have always been the name of the game. That's why if you're going to do something risky make sure you build the safety net
adidoit commented on Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out   bleepingcomputer.com/news... · Posted by u/fleahunter
aurareturn · 2 months ago
- ~1 billion users in just 3 years

- Extremely personal data on users

- Novel way of introducing and learning more about sponsored products

- Strong branding for non-techie people (most normal people don't know what Claude or Gemini are)

- An app that is getting more and more addictive/indispensable

I think OpenAI is going to kill it in ads eventually. This is why Meta and Google went all in on AI. Their lucrative digital ad business is in an existential threat.

I think people who kept saying there is no moat in AI is about to be shocked at how strong of a moat there actually is for ChatGPT.

All free LLM chat apps will need to support ads or they will eventually die due to worse unit economics or run out of funding.

PS. Sam just said OpenAI's revenue will finish at $20b this year. 6x growth from 2024. Zero revenue from non-sub users. What do you guys think their revenue will end up in 2026?

adidoit · 2 months ago
Yeah I think all of the concerns about ARPU and what the ROI from AI will be are not justified given the opportunity if executed well. LLMs contain high intent significant memory. Their usage is exploding.

Getting $200 subscriptions from a small number of whales, $20 subscriptions from the average white-collar worker, and then supporting everything us through advertising seems like a solid revenue strategy

adidoit commented on Effective harnesses for long-running agents   anthropic.com/engineering... · Posted by u/diwank
adidoit · 2 months ago
Fascinating that the state-of-the-art in building agentic harnesses for long running agent workflows is to ... "use strong-worded instructions"

Anthropomorphism of LLMs is obviously flawed but remains the best way to actually build good Agents.

I do think this is one thing that will hold enterprise adoption back: can you really trust systems like these in production where the best control you can offer is that you're pleading with it to not do something?

Of course good engineering will build deterministic verification and scaffolds into prevent issues but it is a fundamental limitation of LLMs

adidoit commented on Student perceptions of AI coding assistants in learning   arxiv.org/abs/2507.22900... · Posted by u/victorbuilds
adidoit · 2 months ago
This sounds like one of the "Ironies of Automation" as Lisain Bainbridge pointed out several years ago.

The more prevalent automation is, the worse humans do when that automation is taken away. This will be true for learning now .

Ultimately the education system is stuck in a bind. Companies want AI-native workers, students want to work with AI, parents want their kids to be employable. Even if the system wants to ensure that students are taught how to learn and not just a specific curriculum, their stakeholders have to be on board.

I think we're shifting to a world where not only will elite status markers like working at places like McKinsey and Google be more valuable but also interview processes will be significantly lengthened because companies will be doing assessments themselves and not trusting credentials from an education system that's suffering from great inflation and automation

adidoit commented on Is Claude opus 4.5 any good?   aithings.dev/blog/is-clau... · Posted by u/irere123
adidoit · 2 months ago
why does this feel ai generated? apologies if its not but the style and layout overlap with typical ai output.

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