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The quality of AI-assisted software depends on unit of work management

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-18 13:06:03

The craft of AI-assisted software creation is substantially about correctly managing units of work. When I was new to this emerging craft of AI-assisted coding, I was getting lousy results, despite the models being rather intelligent. Turns out the major bottleneck is not intelligence, but rather providing the correct context. Andrej Karpathy, while referencing my earlier article on this topic, described the work of AI-assisted engineering as “putting AI on a tight leash”. What does a tight le

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Zoom's New AI Tool Will Tell You What Meetings to Skip

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-20 05:00:03

The next time your boss asks you why you skipped a meeting, you could blame it on Zoom. The video conferencing company unveiled a host of new AI upgrades on Wednesday, all aimed at improving its AI to do tasks for you. Zoom introduced its AI companion two years ago, letting people use it to take notes, transcribe meetings or ask its chatbot follow-up questions after a meeting is over. Now, Zoom is upgrading it to what it calls AI Companion 3.0. The tool will be more agentic, meaning it is built

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Creating a VGA Signal in Hubris

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-25 05:04:24

A while ago I got a ST Nucleo-H753ZI evaluation board because I wanted to try out Hubris, Oxide's embedded operating system. After getting the basic demo app with the blinking lights running I set it aside for a lack of an idea what to do with it. A few weeks ago I was looking through old Raspberry Pi accessories on the hunt for a project. What stuck out to me wasn't any of the Raspberry Pi stuff, but the old 4 by 3 VGA monitor I had standing around. Could I just wire those pins in the VGA cable

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Google Tasks may be getting an upgrade that makes it worthy as a standalone app (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-28 00:48:49

Andy Walker / Android Authority TL;DR Google is testing the ability to add documents via Google Drive to tasks saved in Calendar. It allows adding multiple files in various formats to a task’s description. In its current form, the functionality is limited to Google Calendar but is not available through the native Tasks app or the web interface. Tasks is one of Google’s most straightforward and user-friendly apps. But its lack of features, masquerading as simplicity, is also upsetting for use

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Cursor AI editor lets repos “autorun” malicious code on devices

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-01 11:46:24

A weakness in the Cursor code editor exposes developers to the risk of automatically executing tasks in a malicious repository as soon as it’s opened. Threat actors can exploit the flaw to drop malware, hijack developer environments, or steal credentials and API tokens, without developers having to execute any commands. Cursor is an AI-powered Integrated Development Environment (IDE) built as a fork of Visual Studio Code (VS Code) that has deep integration of mainstream AI assistants like GPT-

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I solved a distributed queue problem after 15 years

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-02 14:28:34

When I was responsible for the infrastructure at Reddit, the most important thing I maintained was Postgres, but a close second was RabbitMQ, our message broker. It was essential to the operation of reddit — everything went into a distributed queue before it went to a database. For example, if you upvoted a post, that was written to the queue and the cache, and then returned success to the user. Then a queue runner would take that item, and attempt to write it to the database as well as create a

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Braincraft challenge – 1000 neurons, 100 seconds, 10 runs, 2 choices, no reward

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-03 07:31:11

Table of Contents Introduction The computational neuroscience literature abounds with models of individual brain structures, such as the hippocampus, basal ganglia, thalamus, and various cortical areas — from visual to prefrontal. These models typically aim to explain specific functions attributed to each structure. For instance, the basal ganglia are often modeled in the context of decision-making, while the hippocampus is associated with episodic memory and spatial navigation through place c

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AI's not 'reasoning' at all - how this team debunked the industry hype

zdnet.com Tiernan Ray 2025-10-07 01:00:17

Pulse/Corbis via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways We don't entirely know how AI works, so we ascribe magical powers to it. Claims that Gen AI can reason are a "brittle mirage." We should always be specific about what AI is doing and avoid hyperbole. Ever since artificial intelligence programs began impressing the general public, AI scholars have been making claims for the technology's deeper significance, even asserting the prospect

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We Use Our Smartphones Like Laptops, So Why Do We Need Both? Here's What CNET's Survey Says

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-08 00:19:22

It's not uncommon to have a smartphone, a laptop and a tablet. I use all three, sometimes for many of the same tasks, like text messages, streaming and social media. The same is true for a lot of people. CNET's recent survey examines how most US adults use laptops, tablets and smartphones. Laptops are commonly used for work and educational tasks like creating and viewing documents (52%), streaming (35%) and creative work (33%). Besides texting, calls and social media, we use our smartphones fo

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Vector search on our codebase transformed our SDLC automation

news.ycombinator.com Antony Brahin 2025-10-11 12:58:27

Grounding AI in Reality: How Vector Search on Our Codebase Transformed Our SDLC Automation Antony Brahin 6 min read · 1 day ago 1 day ago -- Listen Share By: Antony Brahin In software development, the process of turning a user story into detailed documentation and actionable tasks is critical for success. However, this manual process can often be a source of inconsistency and a significant time investment. I was driven to see if I could streamline and elevate it. The journey from a user story

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Python has had async for 10 years – why isn't it more popular?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-15 05:24:57

The Python Documentary dropped this morning. In the middle of the documentary, there’s a dramatic segment about how the transition from Python 2 to 3 divided the community (spoiler alert: it didn’t in the end). The early versions of Python 3 (3.0-3.4) were mostly focused on stability and offering pathways for users moving from 2.7. Along came 3.5 in 2015 with a new feature: async and await keywords for executing coroutines. Ten years and nine releases later, Python 3.14 is weeks away. Whilst

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AI Can Probably Do Some of Your Work Tasks. That Doesn't Mean It Can Do Your Job

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-18 17:00:05

The executives behind big generative artificial intelligence companies are quick to claim their products will displace huge numbers of workers. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei made headlines in May by saying generative AI could wipe out half of entry-level white-collar jobs in the next few years. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in April that he wants AI to be writing half of the company's code in the next year. And Americans believe it -- a recent Pew survey found 64% of Americans expect fewer jobs tha

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4 apps you should use instead of Google Tasks

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-25 08:00:00

Andy Walker / Android Authority Google Tasks is, without a doubt, one of the company’s worst apps. While its barebones nature might appeal to some, its lack of basic features — like natural language processing — makes it feel well behind the times compared to its rivals. Personally, I’m not a fan. I’ve tried countless competing apps in my quest for a better solution, and found four that stand out from the crowd. The first is my personal favorite and the one I’ve been using for years, but the o

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Show HN: Async – Claude code and Linear and GitHub PRs in one opinionated tool

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-24 13:21:19

An open-source developer tool that combines AI coding with task management and code review. Async integrates Claude Code + Linear + GitHub PRs into one opinionated workflow. async-demo.mp4 https://www.async.build/ What Async Does Automatically researches coding tasks - analyzes your codebase and asks clarifying questions before execution - analyzes your codebase and asks clarifying questions before execution Executes code changes in the cloud - runs in isolated environments without touching

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Materialized views are obviously useful

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-28 17:13:39

August 22, 2025 As programmers we spend a lot of time shuttling data back and forth between different systems and transforming it from one format to another. Sometimes it gets pretty miserable! Let’s say you’re making a fancy task tracking app. Tasks belong to projects, and on the projects page, you want to show how many tasks are in each project. Maybe you start with a little SQL that you call from your “get info about project” view model code: async function getTaskCountForProject ( project

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MCP-Universe benchmark shows GPT-5 fails more than half of real-world orchestration tasks

venturebeat.com Emilia David 2025-10-29 23:50:55

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now The adoption of interoperability standards, such as the Model Context Protocol (MCP), can provide enterprises with insights into how agents and models function outside their walled confines. However, many benchmarks fail to capture real-life interactions with MCP. Salesforce AI Research developed a new open-source benchmark it calls MCP-Un

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A summary of recent AI research (2016)

news.ycombinator.com Mike Hearn 2025-11-02 03:47:42

Story comprehension The robots of Westworld are not programmed solely by software developers. The bulk of the work is done by professional writers, who give each character a unique backstory. These stories give them the memories and depth they need to seem real to the park guests. When asked who they are, what they’ve done or why they feel a certain way, they can consult their backstory to find out the answer. Being able to answer questions about stories is a fundamental requirement for being

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95% of Companies See 'Zero Return' on $30B Generative AI Spend

news.ycombinator.com Oliver Flynn 2025-11-02 03:36:24

Over the last three years, companies worldwide have invested between 30 and 40 billion dollars into generative artificial intelligence projects. Yet most of these efforts have brought no real business return. A new study from MIT found that 95 percent of enterprise organizations report zero measurable gains from the adoption of AI tools. Only a small group has seen strong benefits. “Just five percent of integrated AI pilots are extracting millions in value,” the report said. In contrast, the v

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Understanding Moravec's Paradox

news.ycombinator.com Morgan Howells 2025-10-31 08:36:51

Understanding Moravec's Paradox Morevec's paradox is a little weird in a few ways. First it's not a paradox, and second it's widely miss-interpreted. At its core, Moravec's paradox is the observation that reasoning takes much less computation compared to sensorimotor and perception tasks. It's often (incorrectly) described as tasks that are easy for humans are difficult for machines and visa versa. The answer from the human's side is relatively simple to explain. As hypothesised by Morvec, hum

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5 ways automation can speed up your daily workflow - and implementation is easy

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-11-08 04:53:55

Yuichiro Chino/Moment via Getty ZDNET's key takeaways Automation can help ease the strain of a busy day. There are specific tools and features available for automation. Some tools do have a steep learning curve. Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. Every day, you perform repetitive tasks that can often take more of your precious time than you want. This has become especially important as our days get filled with more an

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Best Practices for Building Agentic AI Systems

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-11 05:39:34

I’ve been experimenting with adding AI agents to UserJot, our feedback, roadmap, and changelog platform. Not the simple “one prompt, one response” stuff. Real agent systems where multiple specialized agents communicate, delegate tasks, and somehow don’t crash into each other. The goal was to analyze customer feedback at scale. Find patterns across hundreds of posts. Auto-generate changelog entries. Things that were basically impossible to do manually. I spent weeks reverse engineering tools lik

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Model intelligence is no longer the constraint for automation

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-11 03:44:49

The perception is that model improvement seems to be stagnating. GPT-5 wasn’t the step change that people were expecting. Yet, models continue to improve on reasoning benchmarks. Recently, both OpenAI and Google models were on par with gold medallists in the International Mathematical Olympiad 2025 (IMO). At the same time it’s still difficult to make AI agents work for relatively simple enterprise use cases. Why is there such a disparity in model performance between problem domains? Why are mode

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Reminders in iOS 26 has a powerful new tool for organizing tasks

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-11-13 03:17:59

Apple’s Reminders app is one of many system apps getting new features in iOS 26. Among the handful of improvements coming to Reminders, there’s a powerful new tool for organizing your tasks. iOS 26’s Reminders app can now sort your tasks into sections automatically When it comes to task management, apps can sometimes get a little carried away with the number of features and settings they offer. Having a feature-rich app is great, but task managers can err in requiring too much time to organiz

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Google just gave the Gemini Live app its biggest update yet - Android and iOS versions included

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-11-16 18:30:14

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's takeaways Gemini Live now works with Calendar, Maps, Keep, and Tasks. Update is rolling out to most Android and iOS users. It can add events, guide routes, and manage lists or notes. In May of this year, Google debuted Gemini Live with screen sharing and camera access for Android. Google has been slowly integrating the feature, which lets you ask Gemini about anything on your screen (or that you can see with your camera), into its suite of apps since Jun

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Salesforce’s new CoAct-1 agents don’t just point and click — they write code to accomplish tasks faster and with greater success rates

venturebeat.com Ben Dickson 2025-11-21 08:00:03

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Researchers at Salesforce and the University of Southern California have developed a new technique that gives computer-use agents the ability to execute code while navigating graphical user interfaces (GUIs), that is, writing scripts while also moving a cursor and/or clicking buttons on an application, combining the best of both approaches

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New data shows AI agents invading the workplace, with mixed results

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-11-21 17:00:21

imaginima ZDNET's key takeaways: Employee trust in AI agents is growing, but only for some tasks. Research found that trust increases the more people use agents. The rapid embrace of agents is rewriting some workplace norms. AI agents are becoming a common fixture in the workplace as businesses look to automate a variety of routine, time-consuming tasks. A growing body of research, however, is revealing the boundaries of the degree of control that employees are willing to hand over to these

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Microsoft releases lightweight Office taskbar apps for Windows 11

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-11-22 09:39:12

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Microsoft is starting to roll out lightweight taskbar apps for Microsoft 365 users on Windows 11. These taskbar apps will automatically launch at startup and provide quick access to contacts, file search, and calendar straight from the Windows taskbar. The Microsoft 365 companion apps, as

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Study warns of security risks as ‘OS agents’ gain control of computers and phones

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2025-11-23 03:14:07

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Researchers have published the most comprehensive survey to date of so-called “OS Agents” — artificial intelligence systems that can autonomously control computers, mobile phones and web browsers by directly interacting with their interfaces. The 30-page academic review, accepted for publication at the prestigious Association for Computatio

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You can try Gemini Live in your favorite Google apps now, and it blew me away

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-11-24 08:45:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's takeaways Gemini Live now works with Calendar, Maps, Keep, and Tasks. Update is rolling out to most Android and iOS users. It can add events, guide routes, and manage lists or notes. In May of this year, Google debuted Gemini Live with screen sharing and camera access for Android. Google has been slowly integrating the feature, which lets you ask Gemini about anything on your screen (or that you can see with your camera), into its suite of apps since Jun

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ECScape: Understanding IAM Privilege Boundaries in Amazon ECS

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-20 05:16:00

This post is Part 2 of our educational series on Amazon ECS security. In Part 1 – Under the Hood of Amazon ECS on EC2, we explored how the ECS agent, IAM roles and the ECS control plane provide credentials to tasks. Here we’ll demonstrate how those mechanisms can lead to a known risk when tasks with different privilege levels share the same EC2 host. This cross-task credential exposure highlights the inherent risks of relying on per-task IAM scoping and task execution boundaries when workloads s

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The quality of AI-assisted software depends on unit of work management

Zoom's New AI Tool Will Tell You What Meetings to Skip

Creating a VGA Signal in Hubris

Google Tasks may be getting an upgrade that makes it worthy as a standalone app (APK teardown)

Cursor AI editor lets repos “autorun” malicious code on devices

I solved a distributed queue problem after 15 years

Braincraft challenge – 1000 neurons, 100 seconds, 10 runs, 2 choices, no reward

AI's not 'reasoning' at all - how this team debunked the industry hype

We Use Our Smartphones Like Laptops, So Why Do We Need Both? Here's What CNET's Survey Says

Vector search on our codebase transformed our SDLC automation

Python has had async for 10 years – why isn't it more popular?

AI Can Probably Do Some of Your Work Tasks. That Doesn't Mean It Can Do Your Job

4 apps you should use instead of Google Tasks

Show HN: Async – Claude code and Linear and GitHub PRs in one opinionated tool

Materialized views are obviously useful

MCP-Universe benchmark shows GPT-5 fails more than half of real-world orchestration tasks

A summary of recent AI research (2016)

95% of Companies See 'Zero Return' on $30B Generative AI Spend

Understanding Moravec's Paradox

5 ways automation can speed up your daily workflow - and implementation is easy

Best Practices for Building Agentic AI Systems

Model intelligence is no longer the constraint for automation

Reminders in iOS 26 has a powerful new tool for organizing tasks

Google just gave the Gemini Live app its biggest update yet - Android and iOS versions included

Salesforce’s new CoAct-1 agents don’t just point and click — they write code to accomplish tasks faster and with greater success rates

New data shows AI agents invading the workplace, with mixed results

Microsoft releases lightweight Office taskbar apps for Windows 11

Study warns of security risks as ‘OS agents’ gain control of computers and phones

You can try Gemini Live in your favorite Google apps now, and it blew me away

ECScape: Understanding IAM Privilege Boundaries in Amazon ECS

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