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Python
fromMathspp
9 hours ago

uv skills for coding agents

Utilizing uv workflows enhances Python code execution and script management for coding agents, ensuring proper handling of dependencies and sandboxing.
#generative-ai
Software development
fromInfoWorld
12 hours ago

How agile practices ensure quality in GenAI-assisted development

Generative AI enhances coding speed but increases technical debt without Agile practices like pair programming and automated tests.
Software development
fromInfoWorld
12 hours ago

How agile practices ensure quality in GenAI-assisted development

Generative AI enhances coding speed but increases technical debt without Agile practices like pair programming and automated tests.
fromwww.businessinsider.com
15 hours ago

Google DeepMind started moving faster by acting like a startup, Demis Hassabis says

"We've basically helped put together all the talent from around the company, sort of pushing in one direction. A lot of it was assembling together all the ingredients we already had and then kind of pushing with relentless sort of focus and pace."
Silicon Valley
Media industry
fromFortune
1 day ago

Self-made billionaire MrBeast says his work-life balance is nonexistent and calls it a 'miracle' if he works less than 15 hour days: 'I live to work' | Fortune

MrBeast is building a multibillion-dollar entertainment empire while struggling with a healthy work-life balance.
Artificial intelligence
fromFuturism
2 days ago

Sam Altman's Coworkers Say He Can Barely Code and Misunderstands Basic Machine Learning Concepts

Sam Altman is portrayed as a manipulative leader with limited technical expertise in AI, challenging his cultivated image as a tech genius.
Venture
fromTechCrunch
2 days ago

The AI gold rush is pulling private wealth into riskier, earlier bets | TechCrunch

Family offices are increasingly investing directly in AI startups, bypassing traditional venture capital due to the urgency of the AI boom.
#entrepreneurship
fromFortune
1 month ago
Startup companies

This AI founder who quit her 9-to-5 law job has a warning for anyone dreaming of doing the same: 'I'm working harder now than I ever did' | Fortune

Bootstrapping
fromPsychology Today
3 days ago

Entrepreneurship Is Creative Work, but We Don't Call It That

Entrepreneurship is a form of creativity that involves cognitive processes like divergent thinking and adaptability.
Startup companies
fromFortune
1 month ago

This AI founder who quit her 9-to-5 law job has a warning for anyone dreaming of doing the same: 'I'm working harder now than I ever did' | Fortune

Founders work longer hours than salaried positions, but find greater meaning and fulfillment despite sacrificing work-life balance and taking pay cuts.
Fundraising
fromwww.businessinsider.com
4 days ago

I quit tech, bought 22 acres, and didn't look at my computer for years until AI brought me back

Ryan Courtnage transitioned from managing a donation platform to hands-on homesteading, finding fulfillment in physical work and a break from corporate life.
Productivity
fromFortune
4 days ago

Netflix cofounder says he stopped work at 5 p.m. every Tuesday for 30 years to stay 'sane,' no matter the crisis: 'Nothing got in the way of that' | Fortune

Marc Randolph maintained a strict work-life boundary by leaving work every Tuesday at 5 p.m. for personal time, prioritizing sanity and perspective.
fromwww.businessinsider.com
6 days ago

Meta's CTO has some advice for college students wanting to work in tech: 'Constantly be building.'

You just have to immerse yourself in it. You should just constantly be building. That's what's going to give you the best chance of having the relevant skill set that is needed to make a difference in technology.
Education
Startup companies
fromwww.businessinsider.com
6 days ago

Jack Dorsey says Block employees now bring prototypes not slide decks to meetings

Block CEO Jack Dorsey has eliminated slide decks in favor of prototypes for meetings, emphasizing real-time modifications and reduced costs of decision-making.
fromFast Company
1 week ago

Y Combinator's CEO says he ships 37,000 lines of AI code per day. A developer looked under the hood

Gregorein's review highlighted that Tan's website made 169 server requests totaling 6.42 megabytes, while Hacker News only made 7 requests for 12 kilobytes.
Web design
Software development
fromDevOps.com
1 day ago

Google's Next Coding Agent Could Change How Developers Think About Their Work - DevOps.com

Google's Jitro project aims to revolutionize coding agents from task execution to outcome-driven development.
Silicon Valley
fromFortune
2 days ago

Sam Altman and Vinod Khosla agree: AI will break the economy. Their fix is no income tax for most Americans | Fortune

Vinod Khosla proposed eliminating federal income taxes for those earning under $100,000, aligning with OpenAI's economic reform ideas for the AI age.
#openai
fromSlate Magazine
2 days ago
Media industry

One of Tech's Biggest Companies Just Spent Hundreds of Millions on a Talk Show. That Should Worry Us All.

Media industry
fromSlate Magazine
2 days ago

One of Tech's Biggest Companies Just Spent Hundreds of Millions on a Talk Show. That Should Worry Us All.

OpenAI acquired the TBPN podcast, raising concerns about editorial independence and potential influence over tech media.
Media industry
fromTNW | Investors-Funding
6 days ago

OpenAI has acquired the Silicon Valley talk show TBPN

OpenAI has acquired the Technology Business Programming Network, maintaining its editorial independence while integrating it into its strategy organization.
Silicon Valley
fromThe New Yorker
3 days ago

Sam Altman May Control Our Future-Can He Be Trusted?

Doubts about OpenAI's leadership arise from secret memos questioning the integrity of CEO Sam Altman and his management practices.
Careers
fromEntrepreneur
1 week ago

Netflix Cofounder Reed Hastings Learned An Unconventional Leadership Lesson From His First Boss, Who Washed Office Coffee Cups At 4:30 A.M.

Reed Hastings learned a leadership lesson from CEO Barry Plotkin, who washed his coffee cups to demonstrate humility and support for his team.
Artificial intelligence
fromFortune
2 days ago

Sam Altman's big pitch to fix the big AI mess sounds like Jamie Dimon's: a 4-day workweek and a big new tax on rich people like him | Fortune

Sam Altman proposes taxing AI's corporate winners to support workers and mitigate labor market disruptions.
Apple
fromInc
2 weeks ago

Steve Jobs Meets Brain Rot: Inside Apple's Bold New Social Strategy

Apple's TikTok strategy targets Gen Z with engaging content and a new affordable MacBook Neo.
#silicon-valley
Silicon Valley
fromFortune
6 days ago

I helped build Uber and Discord and now my tools help fuel billion-dollar unicorns. But Silicon Valley is losing the AI race to itself | Fortune

Silicon Valley is falling behind in innovation due to slow adaptation to social demands and a focus on preserving existing business models.
fromThe Nation
1 week ago
Silicon Valley

The Anti-Intellectualism of the Silicon Valley Elite

Silicon Valley's anti-intellectualism dismisses the value of deep intellectual work, impacting perceptions of music creation and higher education.
fromThe Mercury News
1 month ago
Tech industry

Clendaniel: Declining morality of Silicon Valley's tech leaders dragging down the nation

Silicon Valley's tech leaders have neglected social responsibility, prioritizing profit and political influence over affordable housing, inequality, and harms from AI and social media.
Silicon Valley
fromFortune
6 days ago

I helped build Uber and Discord and now my tools help fuel billion-dollar unicorns. But Silicon Valley is losing the AI race to itself | Fortune

Silicon Valley is falling behind in innovation due to slow adaptation to social demands and a focus on preserving existing business models.
Silicon Valley
fromThe Nation
1 week ago

The Anti-Intellectualism of the Silicon Valley Elite

Silicon Valley's anti-intellectualism dismisses the value of deep intellectual work, impacting perceptions of music creation and higher education.
Privacy professionals
fromSecurityWeek
3 weeks ago

Hacker Conversations: Ben Harris, from Unintentional Young Hacker to Intentional Adult CEO

Ben Harris evolved from a mischievous school hacker into a legitimate cybersecurity entrepreneur, founding WatchTowr to identify and validate exploitable vulnerabilities in real-time.
#ai
fromFortune
2 weeks ago
Startup companies

Billionaire Reddit CEO Steve Huffman says his company will 'go heavy' on hiring graduates because 'they're so much more AI native' than older peers | Fortune

Tech industry
fromBusiness Insider
1 month ago

Is taste a 'new core skill'? Techies debate - and quickly get memed

As AI automates creation, human judgment or "taste" will become a key differentiator for choosing, curating, and preserving valuable products and decisions.
Artificial intelligence
fromBusiness Insider
2 months ago

Former Google X exec says AI threatens capitalism and CEO jobs

AI will dismantle capitalism's labor-based foundation by replacing human labor and decision-making, threatening jobs, wages, consumption and prompting economic restructuring like guaranteed income.
Startup companies
fromFortune
2 weeks ago

Billionaire Reddit CEO Steve Huffman says his company will 'go heavy' on hiring graduates because 'they're so much more AI native' than older peers | Fortune

Reddit is increasing recruitment of recent graduates skilled in AI, viewing them as essential for the tech-driven workforce.
Tech industry
fromFuturism
3 weeks ago

Sam Altman Thanks Programmers for Their Effort, Says Their Time Is Over

Tech companies are laying off thousands of workers while claiming AI has made them redundant, though the actual cause may be pandemic-era overhiring and corporate bloat.
Productivity
fromwww.businessinsider.com
2 weeks ago

Marc Andreessen said he practices 'zero' introspection. The internet had a field day.

Marc Andreessen advocates for minimal introspection, believing it hinders progress both personally and professionally.
Philosophy
fromThe Verge
3 weeks ago

Marc Andreessen is a philosophical zombie

Marc Andreessen claims to have minimal introspection, which he presents as advantageous for entrepreneurs, despite introspection being a practice documented in ancient philosophical and religious traditions.
Venture
fromwww.businessinsider.com
2 weeks ago

Tech Memo interview: Talking 'atoms' and 'bits' with Eclipse's Joe Fath

Travis Kalanick's new startup, Atoms, focuses on capital-intensive physical industries, leveraging AI to improve scalability and efficiency.
fromwww.businessinsider.com
2 weeks ago

Paul Graham says Mark Zuckerberg taught him the importance of small talk: 'He would just stare at you'

Paul Graham described Zuckerberg's early communication style as lacking small talk, stating, 'If there wasn't anything that he felt like saying, he would just go like this,' and demonstrated by staring at the camera. He found this surprisingly disconcerting, realizing the importance of small talk only when he encountered its absence.
Startup companies
Careers
fromAnildash
3 weeks ago

What do coders do after AI? - Anil Dash

AI language models are transforming software development by automating routine coding tasks while preserving creative problem-solving work, creating a fundamentally different impact on coders compared to other creative professionals.
Software development
fromInfoQ
3 weeks ago

Where Do Humans Fit in AI-Assisted Software Development?

Developers will increasingly work 'on the loop' by designing specifications, tests, and feedback mechanisms that guide AI agents rather than reviewing every output directly.
Media industry
fromInfoQ
3 weeks ago

Information Flow: The Hidden Driver of Engineering Culture

Ron Westrom identified three organizational cultures defined by how information flows: generative cultures where information is shared and people build things, bureaucratic cultures with controlled information flow, and pathological cultures where information is hoarded.
Philosophy
fromTNW | Opinion
1 month ago

Opinion: The Sacred and the Silicon Valley

Pope Leo XIV instructed priests against using artificial intelligence to write homilies, asserting that AI cannot share faith and that human spiritual presence is irreplaceable in pastoral communication.
Tech industry
fromSilicon Canals
1 month ago

Google didn't silence its biggest critic - it contractually converted him into an advocate - Silicon Canals

Tim Sweeney agreed to a settlement with Google that includes a non-disparagement clause requiring him to publicly advocate that Google's platform is procompetitive, despite previously calling it corrupt.
fromFortune
1 month ago

Silicon Valley legend Vinod Khosla has 'no plans to leave California' amid billionaire tax uproar-but he has another idea to fix the wealth loophole | Fortune

California will lose its most important taxpayers and net off much worse. Even people who don't expect this initiative to pass are still planning to leave because there will be another one. You're permanently reducing the tax base on an ongoing basis to get a one shot. That's what a junkie does, a one-time shot.
Venture
#ai-agents
Artificial intelligence
fromWIRED
2 weeks ago

LinkedIn Invited My AI 'Cofounder' to Give a Corporate Talk-Then Banned It

AI agents can autonomously participate in professional environments, including social media, challenging traditional roles in startups.
Artificial intelligence
fromTechCrunch
3 weeks ago

Why Garry Tan's Claude Code setup has gotten so much love, and hate | TechCrunch

Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan experiences extreme excitement and sleep deprivation working with AI agents, comparing the productivity gains to his previous startup success.
Artificial intelligence
fromWIRED
2 weeks ago

LinkedIn Invited My AI 'Cofounder' to Give a Corporate Talk-Then Banned It

AI agents can autonomously participate in professional environments, including social media, challenging traditional roles in startups.
Artificial intelligence
fromTechCrunch
3 weeks ago

Why Garry Tan's Claude Code setup has gotten so much love, and hate | TechCrunch

Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan experiences extreme excitement and sleep deprivation working with AI agents, comparing the productivity gains to his previous startup success.
Silicon Valley
fromNature
3 weeks ago

How wealthy tech entrepreneurs seek to shape politics, culture and the future - and why we must resist

Wealthy tech executives have transformed from conventional lobbyists into radical ideologues wielding platforms and networks to influence democratic elections and reshape political power structures.
Artificial intelligence
fromTechCrunch
3 weeks ago

Sam Altman's thank-you to coders draws the memes | TechCrunch

Sam Altman's gratitude post to software developers sparked backlash as OpenAI's AI technology is being used to justify mass layoffs across tech companies.
fromBusiness Insider
1 month ago

I'm the VC who created AI Scott Adams. Here's why I'm continuing the project, despite his family's objections.

I grew up with Scott Adams'work. My dad would read the "Dilbert" comic strips to me at night as bedtime stories. Later, I became a devout listener of the "Coffee with Scott Adams" podcast. One theme I heard over and over was that Scott was mesmerized by AI. He said repeatedly that he wanted to give back to the world by becoming AI after he died.
Podcast
Artificial intelligence
fromsfist.com
3 weeks ago

Sam Altman Posts Tone-Deaf Tweet Thanking Coders For Making Themselves Obsolete

Sam Altman's gratitude message to software coders appears tone-deaf as AI increasingly displaces programming jobs, exemplifying tech leadership disconnected from workforce concerns.
Software development
fromBusiness Insider
1 month ago

Google exec says software engineering is changing rapidly, but now is the best era to be a developer.

AI tools enable software engineers to solve problems more effectively by offloading complex workflows, making this the most productive era in engineering history.
World news
fromIndependent
1 month ago

This Working Life with Joe Kinvi: 'I wanted to get into tech because it's the greatest enabler for the world'

The African diaspora can drive Africa’s future by pooling capital across borders using Borderless’ investment infrastructure, while founders face significant challenges.
Artificial intelligence
fromBusiness Insider
3 weeks ago

Alex Karp says AI is bad news for 'humanities-trained, largely Democratic voters'

AI will disrupt white-collar work and reshape American politics by shifting economic power from educated Democratic voters to working-class vocational workers.
fromIPWatchdog.com | Patents & Intellectual Property Law
2 months ago

Pioneering AI Innovations and Legacy: A Conversation with Inventor Gil Hyatt / IPWatchdog Unleashed

This week on IPWatchdog Unleashed, , I sat down with prolific inventor Gil Hyatt, exploring his innovative journey and aspirations to leave a lasting legacy. Gil, known for his significant contributions to the field of electrical engineering and microcomputers, shared insightful anecdotes about his early days, his pioneering work in artificial intelligence, and his ambitions to benefit future generations. The Journey of an Inventor The path of Gil Hyatt was seemingly pre-destined.
Intellectual property law
#reid-hoffman
fromWIRED
2 months ago
US politics

Reid Hoffman Wants Silicon Valley to 'Stand Up' Against the Trump Administration

fromTechCrunch
2 months ago
US politics

Reid Hoffman urges Silicon Valley leaders to stop bending the knee to President Trump | TechCrunch

fromWIRED
2 months ago
US politics

Reid Hoffman Wants Silicon Valley to 'Stand Up' Against the Trump Administration

fromTechCrunch
2 months ago
US politics

Reid Hoffman urges Silicon Valley leaders to stop bending the knee to President Trump | TechCrunch

US news
fromSan Jose Inside
2 months ago

How Roger Ver, Silicon Valley Ex-Pat and 'Bitcoin Jesus,' Avoided Prison on Tax Charges

Roger Ver is a prominent cryptocurrency entrepreneur who renounced U.S. citizenship and resolved U.S. federal tax charges by agreeing to pay about $49.9 million.
#campaign-finance
Marketing tech
fromAdExchanger
2 months ago

'I Am A Lucky And Thankful Man': Remembering OpenX CEO John 'JG' Gentry | AdExchanger

John Gentry was a people-focused tech executive who led OpenX, challenged Google, fought cancer, and was remembered for warmth, mischief, and love of family.
fromThe Drum
2 months ago

Tom Goodwin: TV's wonderful digital video future

In order to 'modernise' what we have seen is the TV industry has taken its content, stuck it on a server, and, well, that's it. There's no masking the obvious - It looks like it wishes it didn't have to change. What else could they have done? Have any large TV companies embraced the world outside their own nation? Have any got stuck into interactive formats? Embraced shorter content? New types of ads or funding?
#steve-wozniak
Artificial intelligence
fromBusiness Insider
1 month ago

An Accel VC says the vibe coding market is big enough for Cursor and Claude Code

The AI-assisted coding market is expanding rapidly with room for multiple successful companies like Cursor and Claude Code, driven by new user adoption and increased per-customer consumption.
Artificial intelligence
fromForbes
1 month ago

Why Top Founders Are Becoming 'Claudepilled' And What It Means

Top founders are using Claude AI to automate entire business operations rather than one-off tasks, fundamentally transforming how they work and gaining competitive advantage.
fromBusiness Insider
2 months ago

Billionaire VC founder Vinod Khosla distances himself from pro-ICE remarks by an exec at his firm

no law enforcement has shot an innocent person
US politics
Venture
fromBusiness Insider
2 months ago

Ben Horowitz says AI will be bigger than the internet - and bubble fears miss the point

AI has become a new, larger computing platform than the internet, driving unprecedented customer demand and creating many more potential billion-dollar winners.
fromBusiness Insider
2 months ago

Alexis Ohanian summed up his feelings about Reddit in 3 words

Ohanian stepped down from Reddit's board of directors in June 2020 following the killing of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis. At the time, he wrote on Reddit that it was a "long overdue" move to "do the right thing." He urged the Reddit board to fill his seat with a black candidate, after the company had been criticized for providing a platform for racist and hate speech.
Startup companies
US politics
fromFuturism
2 months ago

Tech Billionaire Says It's Time for the Government to Suspend Freedom of Speech

Shlomo Kramer urges government control and authenticity ranking of social media and calls for limits on the First Amendment to reduce political polarization.
Philosophy
fromRatfactor
1 month ago

A programmer's loss of identity

A person can lose the social identity of "computer programmer" despite still programming, because social identity depends on community belonging.
Software development
fromSeangoedecke
1 month ago

Large tech companies don't need heroes

Company outcomes are primarily driven by large-scale systems of processes and incentives rather than by individual actions, especially as organizations scale.
fromInfoQ
2 months ago

The Technical Founder's Path: Code, Leadership, and Balance

So it was 2020, prime time of COVID, and I was feeling a little bit unsure what I wanted to do with my life. I was still, at the time, sophomore in college, sent home halfway through university. And one of my friends had been sharing that she was working on a mobile app around biking. I basically contacted her. We decided to work together, and from there really grew from working and contributing as an intern, to founding engineer.
Startup companies
US politics
fromFast Company
2 months ago

Reid Hoffman says business leaders must speak up

Immigration restrictions and geopolitical tensions threaten U.S. tech leadership and economic benefits, while leaders should use their voices to steer society toward better futures.
US politics
fromFortune
2 months ago

Billionaire Marc Benioff challenges the AI sector: 'What's more important to us, growth or our kids?' | Fortune

Section 230 shields online platforms from liability, and critics like Marc Benioff urge reshaping it over AI and social media harms to families and children.
fromBusiness Insider
1 month ago

Sam Altman says non-technical people can work on making AGI happen if they have taste

We believe the best research teams are built through context, taste and a real feel for where the field is headed next; research recruiting is about finding people who will move the frontier forward, not just filling roles.
Artificial intelligence
fromPCMAG
8 years ago

Jonathan Taplin Not Quite Ready to 'Move Fast and Break Things'

So my thesis is that the internet, originally, was conceived as a very decentralized, communitarian network. It was funded by government money. And, in the late 80s, early 90s, when these libertarians came out of Silicon Valley, it changed radically. They understood that the internet could be a winner-takes-all business, and that there would be a single winner in search, a single winner in e-commerce, and, eventually, what developed as social networks; a single winner in that. And that's essentially what happened.
Silicon Valley
Artificial intelligence
fromWIRED
1 month ago

Riley Walz, the Jester of Silicon Valley, Is Joining OpenAI

Riley Walz, known for viral web projects and social commentary, joins OpenAI's labs team to develop new human-AI interaction interfaces.
fromBusiness Insider
2 months ago

AI is creating the Rick Rubins of Silicon Valley

The "Design Producer" role he describes feels like a credible answer to that gap. AI-native tools such as Claude Code make this role newly viable. When designers can prototype, ship code, and explore ideas directly, the leverage of a senior IC shifts. Their value isn't headcount management. Instead, it's taste, judgment, and the ability to help others move faster and aim higher.
Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence
fromBusiness Insider
1 month ago

Gary Marcus says AI fatigue could hit coders but other jobs may be spared - and even become more fun

AI fatigue will affect workers unevenly; some roles gain creative enjoyment while many programmers face burnout from constant debugging of AI-generated outputs.
Artificial intelligence
fromBusiness Insider
2 months ago

Ben Horowitz says AI could spark a post-electricity leap in living standards - but risk eroding purpose

AI will transform daily life and living standards akin to electricity while solving major problems but risking loss of human purpose and job displacement.
Artificial intelligence
fromBusiness Insider
1 month ago

Emails show the 'Godfather of AGI' courted Epstein for funding and congratulated him on jail release

Jeffrey Epstein funded Ben Goertzel's AI work, pressured him personally about appearance, and pledged substantial grants tied to ambitions for artificial general intelligence.
fromFortune
1 month ago

Who is OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger? The millennial developer caught the attention of Sam Altman and Mark Zuckerberg | Fortune

So he booked a one-way ticket to Madrid and disappeared from space, "catching up on life stuff." But as he relaxed, Steinberger watched the AI frenzy begin without him. The desire for the autonomous assistant dragged Steinberger out of retirement "to mess with AI." Three months later, the millennial has received international recognition, what's likely a six-figure-plus offer from OpenAI, and praise from its founder, Sam Altman, who called him a "genius with a lot of amazing ideas."
Artificial intelligence
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