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Deep Research just absolutely nailed the itinerary for an overseas trip my family is planning. I gave it a ton of parameters and it just knocked it out of the park. Would have been hours of work for me at least

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Daniel Fenton @dmfenton.net · 08/02/2025

ChatGPT Operator is going to need A LOT of access to personal information to be useful for a killer use case. Dealing w/ government

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Daniel Fenton @dmfenton.net · 07/02/2025

Man Claude Sonnet, how is it still so good. For our testing in calculating complex fields with leases it’s right up there with o3-mini. GPT-4o in the dust…

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Daniel Fenton @dmfenton.net · 06/02/2025

I think a lot of people are going to have the Oh Shit moment with Deep Research like programmers did with tools like Cursor. This stuff is powerful

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Daniel Fenton @dmfenton.net · 06/02/2025

It’s highly rewarding to be a news junkie working in AI. Except for…all the other reasons being a news junkie is not good right now

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Daniel Fenton @dmfenton.net · 04/02/2025

Confession: my cat was sitting on me and I moved before she was ready.

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Daniel Fenton @dmfenton.net · 04/02/2025

OpenAI Deep Research feels like another GPT4 moment for me. Its ability to carry out complex instructions is unbelievable.

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Daniel Fenton @dmfenton.net · 03/02/2025

This. This is the way to build apps now

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Daniel Fenton @dmfenton.net · 01/02/2025

Jevons paradox but for software engineers…

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Daniel Fenton @dmfenton.net · 01/02/2025

Why is genmoji the best part of Apple intelligence?

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Daniel Fenton @dmfenton.net · 30/01/2025

I am humbled to be offered to opportunity to pay $1000 to be named a visionary proptech leader to watch. Truly a watershed moment for my career…

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Daniel Fenton @dmfenton.net · 27/01/2025

If you use your LinkedIn connection request to try to sell me something I will block you. At least have the decency to spend an InMail credit.

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Daniel Fenton @dmfenton.net · 23/01/2025

www.librechat.ai This thing is incredibly feature rich. Why have I never seen anyone talk about it before?

librechat.ai

LibreChat

Free, open source AI chat platform - Every AI for Everyone

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Daniel Fenton @dmfenton.net · 23/01/2025

Out of credits for the month on Cursor. Good thing Windsurf is somehow the same product? How did that happen?

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Daniel Fenton @dmfenton.net · 10/01/2025

Perplexity will use wolfram alpha for calculations. This is cool and useful! Helped it ace a question ChatGPT got wrong. If I contribute x dollars in my paycheck, when will I hit the 2025 401k max?

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Daniel Fenton @dmfenton.net · 05/01/2025

Ai rocks at infrastructure as code. As a result I can spin up a poor man’s version of so many saas products I’d otherwise have to spend lots of money on

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Jake @jakeliebert.com · 24/12/2024

“The future of AI competition will be about 'power dominance' - do you have access to enough electricity to power the datacenters used for increasingly large-scale training runs” eta-publications.lbl.gov/sites/defaul...

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Daniel Fenton @dmfenton.net · 21/12/2024

This is helpful on the changing nature of software engineering with AI

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Daniel Fenton @dmfenton.net · 20/12/2024

I’m glad Cursor was broken for a week because it gave me a reason to test Windsurf. Which is maybe more awesome?

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Daniel Fenton @dmfenton.net · 19/12/2024

Big not influx to Bluesky happening now?

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

I wrote about what was important in a crazy month of AI advances: 1) Intelligence, of a sort, everywhere 2) The first very smart models that can push us to push the boundaries of knowledge 3) AI got eyes to go with its ears 4) Leaps in video generation www.oneusefulthing.org/p/what-just-...

oneusefulthing.org

What just happened

A transformative month rewrites the capabilities of AI

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Daniel Fenton @dmfenton.net · 18/12/2024

GitHub CoPilot is free now. Cool! Try it out...have to search for the "multi edits" feature. It stinks. Why exactly have they not copied Codeium or Cursor? Or hell bought them?

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Daniel Fenton @dmfenton.net · 18/12/2024

Wow Cursor absolutely nuked their product. deleting code randomly, going in circles. Good thing Codeium’s Windsurf Agent has the same magic that Cursor had

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Daniel Fenton @dmfenton.net · 17/12/2024

Is Apple Intelligence Apple Maps part 2? Panned on launch, excellent years later, but overall a missed opportunity?

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Daniel Fenton @dmfenton.net · 16/12/2024

GPT4o-mini is really fast and smart. Starting to understand why they are calling these models agenetic

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Daniel Fenton @dmfenton.net · 13/12/2024

It takes a little prompt engineering to unlock the value, but Gemini Deep Research is VERY VERY interesting.

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Daniel Fenton @dmfenton.net · 13/12/2024

I'm starting to do pull request style reviews with Cursor after a batch of changes.

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

I have now run enough o1 experiments with fellow academics on their hard problems in fields ranging from neurology to genetics to economics that I believe that it has genuine potential to help with science & academics should try it to see how it does for them. Even when it is off, it spurs thinking

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Daniel Fenton @dmfenton.net · 12/12/2024

I agree with Kurt Gödel in the Oppenheimer movie. Trees really are the most inspiring structures.

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Daniel Fenton @dmfenton.net · 12/12/2024

Having Cursor Agent go back and check previous git commits to see where we messed up in a refactor

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Daniel Fenton @dmfenton.net · 12/12/2024

Gemini code execution is a nice new feature but it’s super limited compared to code interpreter on ChatGPT. No packages, no IO. Basically it’s a fancy calculator

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Daniel Fenton @dmfenton.net · 12/12/2024

Regret to say that Gemini 2.0 spatial understanding does not accurately on satellite images

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Daniel Fenton @dmfenton.net · 11/12/2024

It’s too bad cashmere socks are wildly impractical because wow

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Daniel Fenton @dmfenton.net · 09/12/2024

Sora is such a disappointment. All that wait and it’s worse than Luna on initial launch? Am I missing something?

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Daniel Fenton @dmfenton.net · 07/12/2024

O1 can demonstrate a trie data structure in ascii, which is a thing that OG GPT4 couldn’t do. GPT4o gets the explanation right but the ascii wrong.

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Nick Timiraos @nicktimiraos.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Fed researchers fed Fed minutes from 2010-24 into AI tool to see how it processed the content of discussions. "We were especially struck by how well the models performed despite the fact that we employed them off-the-shelf with no domain-specific fine-tuning" www.federalreserve.gov/econres/note...

federalreserve.gov

Using Generative AI Models to Understand FOMC Monetary Policy Discussions

The Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington DC.

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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

One of the most important debates in tech right now is the group of folks who think AI is fake and sucks vs. the people who think AI is real and dangerous. I wrote about why I'm in the latter camp, and talked about my differences with Gary Marcus www.platformer.news/ai-skeptics-...

Most people know these systems are flaws, and adjust their expectations and usage accordingly. The “AI is fake and sucks” crowd is hyper-fixated on the things it can’t do — count the number of r’s in strawberry, figure out that the Onion was joking when it told us to eat rocks — and weirdly uninterested in the things it can.

And that’s a problem, because just as these systems are more honest and helpful than they have ever been, they are also causing greater harm. And to name a real harm, already happening today, I offer the chief security officer of Amazon, CJ Moses, who had this to say about how generative AI is being used in efforts to disrupt critical infrastructure in an interview with the Wall Street Journal last month:

We’re seeing billions of attempts coming our way. On average, we’re seeing 750 million attempts per day. Previously, we’d see about 100 million hits per day, and that number has grown to 750 million over six or seven months.
This is the ongoing blind spot of the “AI is fake and sucks” crowd. This is the problem with telling people over and over again that it’s all a big bubble about to pop. They’re staring at the floor of AI’s current abilities, while each day the actual practitioners are successfully raising the ceiling.

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Daniel Fenton @dmfenton.net · 06/12/2024

10 seconds to implement a feature with AI. I am not making this stuff up! It actually works!

Cursor Agent example of implementing a feature in 10 seconds.

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Daniel Fenton @dmfenton.net · 06/12/2024

To err is to be AI. Or was it human? I forgot.

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I think firms worrying about AI hallucination should consider some questions: 1) How vital is 100% accuracy on a task? 2) How accurate is AI? 3) How accurate is the human who would do it? 4) How do you know 2 & 3? 5) How do you deal with the fact that humans are not 100%? Not all tasks are the same.

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Daniel Fenton @dmfenton.net · 05/12/2024

I asked the Cursor Agent to explore the structure of a word doc I loaded with Python. It tried 6 different approaches on its own. This took about a minute. Then it updated the code. It worked. 👨‍🍳

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