These started in a tiny Wisconsin town called Hudson, where I grew up. The only time we’d ever be front page on HN :)
Readit Newsmobattah commented on Little Free Library littlefreelibrary.org/... · Posted by u/TigerUniversity
mobattah commented on Anthropic Education the AI Fluency Index anthropic.com/research/AI... · Posted by u/armcat
Let me add a single data point.
> is likely to improve at what they do
personally, my skills are not improving.
professionally, my output is increased
My software development skillset has improved. I’m learning and stress testing new patterns that would have taken far longer pre-AI. I’m also working in new domains and tech stacks that would have taken me much longer to get up to speed on.
An Anthropic safety researcher just recently quit with very cryptic messages , saying "the world is in peril"... [1] (which may mean something, or nothing at all)
Codex quite often refuses to do "unsafe/unethical" things that Anthropic models will happily do without question.
Anthropic just raised 30 bn... OpenAI wants to raise 100bn+.
Thinking any of them will actually be restrained by ethics is foolish.
“Cryptic” exit posts are basically noise. If we are going to evaluate vendors, it should be on observable behavior and track record: model capability on your workloads, reliability, security posture, pricing, and support. Any major lab will have employees with strong opinions on the way out. That is not evidence by itself.
mobattah commented on Learn Your Way: Reimagining Textbooks with Generative AI research.google/blog/lear... · Posted by u/FromTheArchives
I wonder how this will contribute to our current declining literacy rates in a social climate that's already rife with anti-intellectualism and isolation. Even if this worked well, it appears to be to be a step backwards.
Call me pessimistic, but this technology looks more poised to replace teachers in schools than supplement them.
Cultural obituaries are often premature, and the one for literacy is no exception. A nascent contrary impulse is emerging: readers deliberately turning to long-form works as a form of intellectual resistance. I’ve been working through Norman Lewis’s Word Power Made Easy and Tom Heehler’s The Well-Spoken Thesaurus, not just to expand vocabulary but to restore the sinew of productive speech.
That project led me to conscript AI as a private tutor. With custom instructions, ChatGPT and Gemini now surface new words and nudge my prose toward clarity, turning a vague fear of erosion into conviction. A dedicated subset of users will inevitably harness such tools to strengthen their expressive range and communicative precision.
Until recently, my writing rarely left emails and journals. Now, with AI as scaffold and sparring partner, I draft short stories from my own life and recast them in the voices of authors I admire. This feels less like a technology poised to supplant teachers, and more like the substrate for a renaissance in autodidactic education.
To get around this will companies just extend their runway with a line of credit or some other form of debt?
There are several strategies companies can employ. One common approach is to raise an extension or bridge round. Many startups are adopting this method, with estimates indicating that approximately 40% of current funding rounds fall into this category.
In these cases, companies raise funds at the same valuation as their previous round, often labeled as Series A+ or Series C+ or Series B Extension.
Another, less common strategy involves using a SAFE (Simple Agreement for Future Equity), which will convert to equity during the next priced round.