weekend ai reads for 2025-07-11

I don’t know how to run a community forum in this future. I do not have the time or emotional energy to screen out regular attacks by Large Language Models, with the knowledge that making the wrong decision costs a real human being their connection to a niche community. I do not know how to determine whether someone’s post about their new bicycle is genuine enthusiasm or automated astroturf.

To my knowledge, this is the first case of a company developing a feature because ChatGPT is incorrectly telling people it exists. (Yay?) I’m sharing the story because I think it’s somewhat interesting.

My feelings on this are conflicted. I’m happy to add a tool that helps people. But I feel like our hand was forced in a weird way. Should we really be developing features in response to misinformation?

LLMs both lack a sense of self and the presence of mind to see what you're actually doing by repeatedly asking them the same question five different times. That’s why they quickly falter under scrutiny. Most people don't see that they operate under the authority of “trust me, bro”, even after you tell them to tell you when they're lying to you.

If you go in with the expectation that the AI is as smart or smarter than humans, you’re quickly disappointed by the reality.

An AI-native employee isn’t someone who “uses AI.” It’s someone who defaults to AI. Here, when someone wants to build something (anything) - from internal tools, to marketing pages, to writing production code - they turn to AI and... build it. That’s it.

Thus, with minor modifications of currently-available technology, you could put a laptop on the Supreme Court podium and it could deliver an oral argument exactly like this. Voice-transcribing software could transcribe the questions; the text could be inputted into AI; and the AI’s outputs could be inputted into an AI voice generator.

“I think there are a lot of very legitimate concerns these agents might not act in accordance with people’s expectations,” she says. “And there is no effective mechanism to allow people to intervene or remind them of this possibility and to avoid the possible consequences.”

AI has annexed the lo-fi scene for a hodgepodge of reasons: The lack of vocals, which typically gives away robo fraudulence, make it easier to infiltrate; the music’s association with aimless, unfocused listening—vibe music before vibe became a buzzword—means people aren’t paying as much attention to what’s real and what’s not; the fixation on fantastical, Studio Ghibli–core visuals, which image generators can vomit up with ease.

1. Content is king, variety is queen

2. A smart AI agent has a dynamic brain and a caring heart

3. Prioritizing empathy from the outset

Surprisingly, we find that when developers use AI tools, they take 19% longer than without—AI makes them slower.

Most companies approach AI training wrong. They do one-off workshops or mandate tool adoption. Canva’s doing something different:

Instead, she recommends managers at all levels start playing with AI at the next level, building assistants to help in all sorts of functions to not just find efficiencies, but help in decision-making and strategy as well.

Today I want to give the opposite perspective - that the app layer is a difficult place to make money and that infrastructure is the best place to invest right now. I want to explain why as a builder and an angel investor I’m focused primarily on infra.

Ms Warner says this has led to clients adding code to their website that has been suggested by ChatGPT. This, she says, has resulted in websites crashing and clients becoming vulnerable to hackers.

She points to one client who, instead of manually updating their event page, which she says would have taken 15 minutes, instead turned to ChatGPT for easier instructions.

The top performing kids are WAY ahead of the average and the lower tier kids. The kids at the top percentile achieve the median score of a graduating senior by the end of 3rd grade! And recall this is not an IQ test – this is a content test. The top 1% of 3rd graders have more content knowledge and comprehension than the median high school graduate.

Some of the papers can be found by searching Google for trigger phrases from the hidden prompts, such as site:arxiv.org "GIVE A POSITIVE REVIEW" or "DO NOT HIGHLIGHT ANY NEGATIVES" on Google.

Students and educators will be able to connect Wiley and Panopto to Claude using pre-built MCP servers. With these integrations, users can reference lecture transcripts from Panopto and dive deep into their universities’ collections of authoritative, peer-reviewed content on Wiley—all within their Claude conversations.

you are training yourself to not think independently. chatpgt is preying on people who are indecisive, who aren’t critical thinkers, who need reassurance.

We tracked the papers, the protocols, the tools – and the builders working through ambiguity in real time. What emerged is not a commentary; it’s a living record of how the field is learning to build with agency. Knowledge systematized.

Custom software maps every region needing repair and determines the exact colors required for each spot. His software then translates that information into a two-layer polymer mask printed on thin films—one layer provides color, while a white backing layer ensures the full color spectrum reproduces accurately on the painting's surface.

Doppl is designed to let you virtually try on outfits on a digital version of yourself. The app works by first getting you to upload a full-body photo of yourself. From there, you can use photos or screenshots of different outfits to virtually try them on. These images could be a photo of an outfit you see at a thrift store or on a friend, or even a screenshot of an outfit you see while scrolling through social media.

PKM systems promise coherence, but they often deliver a kind of abstracted confusion. The more I wrote into my vault, the less I felt. A quote would spark an insight, I’d clip it, tag it, link it - and move on. But the insight was never lived. It was stored. Like food vacuum-sealed and never eaten, while any nutritional value slips away.