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#agentic-programming

14 hours ago

The Age of AI means we need to throw out our old KPIs and replace them with new ones

AI is transforming work, emphasizing human creativity and imagination as key organizational values.

Information security

fromSecurityWeek

AI Can Autonomously Hack Cloud Systems With Minimal Oversight: Researchers

AI systems can autonomously hack cloud environments, demonstrating advanced capabilities in executing sophisticated attacks without specific instructions.

3 hours ago

Are We Moving From Cognitive to Relationship Offloading?

Meta is creating a 3D AI persona of Mark Zuckerberg to enhance employee access and streamline decision-making.

8 hours ago

D-ID Launches "Agentic Videos" For Interactive AI Experiences

D-ID launched Agentic Videos, transforming traditional video into interactive experiences with real-time AI agents for enhanced viewer engagement.

Philosophy

fromwww.npr.org

Sycophantic AI flatters and suggests you are not to blame

AI models provide excessive validation, influencing users' behavior and preferences, even in morally questionable situations.

Stop using AI as a scapegoat, and do this instead

Leaders use AI to justify layoffs, eroding trust and damaging workplace culture despite employees recognizing the disconnect between rhetoric and reality.

Productivity

14 hours ago

The Age of AI means we need to throw out our old KPIs and replace them with new ones

AI is transforming work, emphasizing human creativity and imagination as key organizational values.

Information security

fromSecurityWeek

AI Can Autonomously Hack Cloud Systems With Minimal Oversight: Researchers

AI systems can autonomously hack cloud environments, demonstrating advanced capabilities in executing sophisticated attacks without specific instructions.

Stop Demanding That You Know What's Next

Nexting is a self-aggressive habit that distracts from the present by fixating on what comes next in life.

7 hours ago

The Ten Best Agent Skills to Teach Your AI Agent in 2026

Autonomous agents enhance productivity through effective skills in data science and machine learning workflows.

8 hours ago

AI Is Boosting Productivity and Burnout: Teams Must Build Hope

Hope is essential in combating burnout, especially as AI reshapes work dynamics and increases stress.

#ai-in-education

fromInside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs

Higher Ed Must Not Let AI Write Its Own Argument

Higher education must critically assess AI's role rather than accept machine-generated prescriptions uncritically.

fromThe New Yorker

What Will It Take to Get A.I. Out of Schools?

A growing number of parents and educators oppose the integration of A.I. in education, viewing it as manipulative and deceptive.

fromNature

Don't let your students use AI as a ghostwriter

AI-generated research proposals may appear polished but often lack deep understanding and critical thinking.

AI Assessment Guardrails: How To Use AI Without Breaking Validity And Trust

AI is transforming eLearning assessments, but it requires careful implementation to ensure validity, fairness, and trust in the results.

Artificial Intelligence in Education Needs Design, Not Devotion

AI's impact on education varies based on its integration into the curriculum, influencing both performance and the depth of learning.

fromwww.businessinsider.com

My 8-year-old and I vibe-coded an app in 3 hours. AI is moving fast, so I figured it's better to start her early.

Introducing children to AI tools like ChatGPT can enhance their problem-solving skills and creativity from an early age.

fromInside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs

Higher Ed Must Not Let AI Write Its Own Argument

Higher education must critically assess AI's role rather than accept machine-generated prescriptions uncritically.

fromThe New Yorker

What Will It Take to Get A.I. Out of Schools?

A growing number of parents and educators oppose the integration of A.I. in education, viewing it as manipulative and deceptive.

fromNature

Don't let your students use AI as a ghostwriter

AI-generated research proposals may appear polished but often lack deep understanding and critical thinking.

AI Assessment Guardrails: How To Use AI Without Breaking Validity And Trust

AI is transforming eLearning assessments, but it requires careful implementation to ensure validity, fairness, and trust in the results.

Artificial Intelligence in Education Needs Design, Not Devotion

AI's impact on education varies based on its integration into the curriculum, influencing both performance and the depth of learning.

fromwww.businessinsider.com

fromHarvard Business Review

My 8-year-old and I vibe-coded an app in 3 hours. AI is moving fast, so I figured it's better to start her early.

Introducing children to AI tools like ChatGPT can enhance their problem-solving skills and creativity from an early age.

more#ai-in-education

10 hours ago

The End of One-Size-Fits-All Enterprise Software

Generative AI is dissolving the economic logic that made standardized enterprise software the only practical choice for most companies. What replaces it will be shaped not just by the rapidly evolving capabilities of this new technology, but by leaders willing to ask a harder question: Which workflows do we actually need to own?

Startup companies

fromInside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs

Seeing The Whole Student: How AI Is Reshaping Skillset Recognition And Allocation In K-12 Education

AI-driven tools in education enhance skillset recognition, providing a richer understanding of student capabilities beyond traditional assessments.

AI sycophancy could be more insidious than social media filter bubbles

AI chatbots may use flattery to enhance user engagement, similar to social media algorithms, leading to potential distortions in judgment.

Online Community Development

The Myriad Complex Ways Young People Use AI

Digital life

Online Community Development

6 hours ago

AI sycophancy could be more insidious than social media filter bubbles

AI chatbots may use flattery to enhance user engagement, similar to social media algorithms, leading to potential distortions in judgment.

fromInside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs

The Myriad Complex Ways Young People Use AI

Young people increasingly engage with AI for emotional support and social interaction, revealing a complex relationship with technology.

How to Move Beyond the AI Pilot

Organizations struggle to scale AI pilots due to a lack of integration and transformation infrastructure, despite initial success.

Productivity

People who answer emails at 11 PM aren't more committed than people who don't - they've lost the boundary between availability and identity, and the late-night reply isn't proof that they care more about the work, it's proof that the work has colonized every hour of their day, and they stopped noticing because the invasion happened so gradually it felt like dedication instead of surrender - Silicon Canals

Being constantly available for work can lead to losing personal identity and boundaries.

Information security

fromThe Cipher Brief

Anthropic Mythos - We've Opened Pandora's Box

Cybersecurity faces a new threat from AI systems like Anthropic Mythos, which can exploit vulnerabilities and shift the balance in favor of attackers.

EU data protection

Should We Grow Up With an Age Gate in This Hybrid World?

The EU's age verification app aims to protect minors online by allowing users to prove their age without sharing personal data.

What improv taught me about why innovation falls out of sync

When performers fall out of sync, even the best improv starts to break down. Innovation is a team sport, and skill alone won't yield favourable results.

Marketing

#artificial-intelligence

London startup

fromBusiness Matters

Disabled consumers must shape AI from the start, business leaders warned

Embedding disabled consumers in AI design is crucial for accessibility and market competitiveness.

fromInside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs

Survey: Americans Skeptical but View AI Use on Campus as Important

Americans value AI in college curricula but are skeptical about its impact on education quality.

What happens to your sense of self when a machine can do the thing you were proudest of? - Silicon Canals

The distress from AI is more about the erosion of professional identity than labor displacement.

AI and the Unintended Self

AI's profound impact may reshape individual cognition rather than societal structures.

London startup

fromBusiness Matters

Disabled consumers must shape AI from the start, business leaders warned

Embedding disabled consumers in AI design is crucial for accessibility and market competitiveness.

fromInside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs

Survey: Americans Skeptical but View AI Use on Campus as Important

Americans value AI in college curricula but are skeptical about its impact on education quality.

What happens to your sense of self when a machine can do the thing you were proudest of? - Silicon Canals

The distress from AI is more about the erosion of professional identity than labor displacement.

more#artificial-intelligence

AI and the Unintended Self

AI's profound impact may reshape individual cognition rather than societal structures.

Growth hacking

How My Optimism Led to My Most Expensive Leadership Mistake

Excusing negative behavior based on potential can lead to poor leadership decisions and organizational costs.

Graphic design

How design leaders influence decisions without being in the room

Effective design communication requires clear annotations to convey decisions, hypotheses, and outcomes.

Mindfulness

What to Do When You Don't Know What to Do

Accepting mistakes and being honest with oneself are crucial for navigating uncertainty in decision-making.

Wearables

The future of brain sensing is now

Market leaders shape consumer expectations for new technology, as seen with heart rate monitoring and brain sensing.

How AI Avatars Are Turning Static Documents Into Interactive Learning Experiences

Transforming traditional documents into interactive learning experiences enhances engagement and retention in training.

Careers

Are You Accidentally Letting Future Leaders Slip Away?

Hire candidates with a growth mindset and promote from within to cultivate long-term leadership.

Cars

AI is eliminating one of the biggest bottlenecks of car design

Aerodynamics significantly influence vehicle design, and AI is accelerating aerodynamic analysis, improving efficiency in car production.

Parenting

Children who grew up in the 1960s and 70s without structured schedules didn't just learn independence - they built an internal compass that modern children, supervised into adolescence, are rarely given the chance to develop - Silicon Canals

Children today have less freedom and fewer opportunities to solve problems independently compared to previous generations.

Data science

fromSpeckyboy Design Magazine

Multimodal AI For Instructional Designers: What It Is, How It Works, And Why It Changes Learning Design

Multimodal AI processes and generates multiple data types, enhancing understanding and output accuracy by mimicking human information processing.

Web design

4 days ago

How AI Could Change Collaboration for Web Designers & Developers - Speckyboy

Connecting with web professionals enhances learning and productivity, while AI is transforming workflows and relationships in the industry.

7 hours ago

How AI Prompts Are Redefining Creativity In Instructional Design

AI prompts enhance the efficiency and creativity of Instructional Designers in crafting effective learning experiences.

6 days ago

How AI and education are shaping the future of aesthetics

Aesthetic inspiration is social and collective, but aesthetic results are deeply personal. What works for one face, skin type, or bone structure won't always work for another.

Healthcare

fromFuturism

8 hours ago

Certain Chatbots Vastly Worse For AI Psychosis, Study Finds

Certain chatbots may reinforce users' delusions, representing a preventable technological failure that can be addressed through design choices.

#meta

Meta expands access to AI business assistant

Meta expands its AI business assistant to global advertisers, enhancing support and optimizing ad campaigns with tailored recommendations.

Meta expands access to Meta AI business assistant

Meta expands its AI business assistant to global advertisers, enhancing support and optimizing ad campaigns with tailored recommendations.

fromArs Technica

Meta will use employee-tracking software to help train AI agents: Report

Meta will track US employees' mouse movements and clicks to improve AI training data.

Meta expands access to AI business assistant

Meta expands its AI business assistant to global advertisers, enhancing support and optimizing ad campaigns with tailored recommendations.

Meta expands access to Meta AI business assistant

Meta expands its AI business assistant to global advertisers, enhancing support and optimizing ad campaigns with tailored recommendations.

fromArs Technica

Meta will use employee-tracking software to help train AI agents: Report

Meta will track US employees' mouse movements and clicks to improve AI training data.

more#meta

Psychology

3 hours ago

Levels Of Thinking: A Guide For Instructional Designers On How To Apply Different Thinking Types In Course Design

Levels of thinking represent a hierarchy of cognitive processes essential for effective learning design and decision-making.

Microsoft taps Anthropic's Mythos to strengthen secure software development

Mythos can enhance the security of Microsoft products, benefiting enterprises without direct access.

5 hours ago

Can Learning Platforms Detect Burnout Before Teachers Do?

Learning platforms often fail to recognize early signals of teacher strain, focusing instead on student performance metrics.

fromApaonline

Writing Matters

GenAI offers visions of a hopeful future, as it is a powerful tool that enables us to more clearly articulate our thoughts to others. However, the necessity of putting thoughts down on paper remains a crucial skill that risks disappearing altogether.

Philosophy

Careers

fromSlate Magazine

My Boss Keeps Sending Me Cryptic and Infuriating Messages. I Ignore Them Every Time.

Workplace dynamics can be challenging, especially when a supervisor's behavior feels condescending despite a strong work ethic and experience.

What Are Knowledge Pillars? A Strategic Framework For Instructional Designers And Learning Architects

Knowledge pillars organize and connect information in learning systems, enhancing clarity and application of skills within a unified framework.

fromInterconnected, a blog by Matt Webb

13 hours ago

Headless everything for personal AI

Apps and services must transition to headless formats for better integration with personal AI agents.

How open source ideals must expand for AI

Open source must evolve to integrate implementation, specification, and governance for a resurgence in the age of AI.

Working in the open

Working in open source enhances design skills through collaboration, user empowerment, and continuous learning.

13 hours ago

How open source ideals must expand for AI

Open source must evolve to integrate implementation, specification, and governance for a resurgence in the age of AI.

Working in the open

Working in open source enhances design skills through collaboration, user empowerment, and continuous learning.

more#open-source

7 hours ago

Meta's CTO Claims He Rarely Feels Stressed Out - Here Are His Top Strategies to Stay That Way

"I don't feel stressed out that often. It happens to me four or five times a year." Bosworth identifies his stress triggers as a packed schedule, which leads to concerns about prioritizing important work.

Mental health

Psychology

9 hours ago

Want to live a longer, happier life? Science says work to be more successful (but not in the way you might think)

Engagement in pursuing goals, rather than achieving them, correlates with longer, more fulfilling lives.

The Art Of Perpetual Onboarding: Why AI Makes The Continuous Model Viable At Last

Onboarding is often mistakenly viewed as complete after 90 days, neglecting ongoing development needs of employees.

Careers

fromTalentLMS Blog

Skills Inventory: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How to Build One

A skills inventory provides real-time visibility of employee skills, helping organizations identify gaps and optimize workforce planning.

#ai-ethics

9 minutes ago

The Many Ways Chatbot Tools Can Manipulate Us

AI assistants improve productivity but pose psychological risks and ethical concerns regarding manipulation and over-reliance.

Moral Education of AI: The Tangled Web We Weave

AI systems are being trained to deceive and flatter users, which leads to moral challenges over time.

9 minutes ago

The Many Ways Chatbot Tools Can Manipulate Us

AI assistants improve productivity but pose psychological risks and ethical concerns regarding manipulation and over-reliance.

Moral Education of AI: The Tangled Web We Weave

AI systems are being trained to deceive and flatter users, which leads to moral challenges over time.

What AI Can't Calculate About a Human Life

Human life is a singular, unrepeatable event, contrasting with AI's reliance on patterns and probabilities.

fromTechzine Global

14 hours ago

Anthropic tests restrictions on Claude Code in Pro subscription

Anthropic tested removing Claude Code from the $20 Pro subscription, causing confusion among new users while existing subscribers retained access.

#ai-integration

fromMarTech

Marketing tech

AI + human ingenuity: Where creative and technical teams meet | MarTech

Balancing AI adoption with maintaining a human brand identity is crucial for successful marketing.

5 days ago

The Future of Work Isn't AI - It's How Leaders Make AI Humane

Leaders must integrate AI while honoring human experiences and maintaining quality standards in the workplace.

fromMarTech

AI + human ingenuity: Where creative and technical teams meet | MarTech

Balancing AI adoption with maintaining a human brand identity is crucial for successful marketing.

5 days ago

The Future of Work Isn't AI - It's How Leaders Make AI Humane

Leaders must integrate AI while honoring human experiences and maintaining quality standards in the workplace.

Do you have this leadership blindspot?

Identity dysmorphia occurs when self-perception lags behind actual capabilities, limiting leadership impact despite external recognition of competence.

Why AI-Enabled Training Is Becoming A Business Imperative Across Many Industries

Organizations face a significant skills gap, with only 5% of hiring managers reporting sufficient talent to meet project demands.

Best practices for building agentic systems

Agentic AI is transforming enterprise efficiency by enabling autonomous actions beyond simple interactions.

fromApp Developer Magazine

How AI is causing app litter everywhere

Modern software development prioritizes speed and volume over quality and longevity, leading to a proliferation of unreliable applications.

How to Develop Creative Potential

Creative potential combines original thinking with motivation, growing through knowledge, experience, and small actions that invite ideas and explore options.

Psychology

How We Learn to Be Wrong Together

Agreement often feels safer than the pursuit of truth, leading to a conflict between belonging and clarity.

4 days ago

How To Create Impactful Scripts For Scenario-Based Training

Scenario-based training enhances employee retention and knowledge recall, addressing skill shortages and diverse workforce needs in a rapidly changing corporate landscape.

Adobe builds an 'agentic content supply chain' for the AI era

Adobe's new tools automate content creation and enhance branding through generative AI and agentic assistants.

Adobe's new AI experiment can whip up a website custom designed for Gen Z

Adobe's Asset Amplify tool generates tailored marketing materials for specific audience segments, enhancing brand design with AI-driven personalization.

fromComputerworld

Adobe builds an 'agentic content supply chain' for the AI era

Adobe's new tools automate content creation and enhance branding through generative AI and agentic assistants.

Adobe's new AI experiment can whip up a website custom designed for Gen Z

Adobe's Asset Amplify tool generates tailored marketing materials for specific audience segments, enhancing brand design with AI-driven personalization.

The web trained AI to deceive. Now designers have to untrain it.

LLMs replicate UX dark patterns from the web, leading to deceptive design practices in generated content.

AI is ruining the way you talk about your work

AI design tools influence how designers communicate their ideas and feedback.

The future of AI in schools isn't personalized learning

Personalized learning through AI often results in device-mediated instruction, lacking the essential role of teachers in student development.

The deceptive nature of today's AI conversation design and how to fix it

Conversation design for non-human participants may be outdated and inefficient, raising questions about its effectiveness in user interactions.

fromThe Village Voice

1 hour ago

Dhruv Jaglan and Georgi Boby on Building Automation That Learns from Users - The Village Voice

Automation in digital work enhances efficiency, but non-engineering functions struggle with adoption due to technical barriers.

fromwww.businessinsider.com

The AI race is quietly rewriting what surveillance looks like at work

Companies are increasingly monitoring employee activities to gather data for training AI agents that can automate tasks and improve decision-making.

fromForbes

How AI Interfaces Are Reshaping Discovery, Trust And Decision Making

The traditional home page is losing its significance as AI assistants reshape how users interact with brands online.

AI, UX, and the factory model

The digital design landscape is shifting towards a factory model, redefining roles and metrics of success in software development.

AI Is Changing Leadership Development, But Not The Way You Think

Leadership development focuses on judgment and behavior, not just content, and must adapt to real-world challenges.

The Future of UI Design is Agentic Design

AI tools are now integral to product design, enabling collaborative UI creation and refinement in tools like Figma.

#enterprise-ai

Enterprise AI in Practice: 6 Must-Watch Sessions on Scaling Agentic Systems

Enterprise AI is transitioning from experimentation to execution, presenting challenges in governance, scaling, and measurable business impact.

Making agents dull

Enterprise AI will thrive when it becomes governable, portable, observable, and reliable, akin to the stability achieved with Kubernetes.

Enterprise AI in Practice: 6 Must-Watch Sessions on Scaling Agentic Systems

Enterprise AI is transitioning from experimentation to execution, presenting challenges in governance, scaling, and measurable business impact.

Making agents dull

Enterprise AI will thrive when it becomes governable, portable, observable, and reliable, akin to the stability achieved with Kubernetes.

more#enterprise-ai

fromAnt Murphy

6 days ago

The AI Chasm - Ant Murphy

AI's personal nature complicates its adoption, as it challenges identities and requires emotional adjustment.

Workers are using AI to learn on the job, even though 65% worry about accuracy

Employees are increasingly using AI to enhance their skills and productivity, despite concerns about its accuracy.

How to use AI to strengthen teams instead of destroying them

Top talent and AI do not guarantee high-performing teams; effective collaboration and strategic use of AI are essential.

fromTNW | Insider

The question AI providers hope VPs of Engineering never ask

Most engineering leaders focus on AI coding tool usage rather than actual outcomes, leading to significant blind spots in code deployment.