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A new study from UCLA, MIT, Oxford, and Carnegie Mellon gave 1,222 people AI assistants for cognitive tasks — then pulled the plug midway through. The results: - After ~10 minutes of AI-assisted problem solving, people who lost access to AI performed **worse** than those who never had it - They didn't just get more wrong answers — they **stopped trying altogether** - The effect showed up across math AND reading comprehension - Ran 3 separate experiments (350 → 670 → full cohort). Same result every time. The researchers call it the "boiling frog" effect — each AI interaction feels costless, but your cognitive muscles are quietly atrophying. The UCLA co-author warns this could create "a generation of learners who will not know what they're capable of." Study hasn't been peer-reviewed y...

I've been thinking about how we structure "skills" in agent systems. Across different frameworks, "skills" can mean very different things: a tool / function a role or persona a multi-step workflow But there are actually two separate questions here: What does the skill describe? persona tool workflow How does it execute? stateless (safe to retry, parallelize) stateful (has side effects, ordering matters) Most frameworks mix these together. That works fine in demos — but starts to break in real systems. For example: a tool that reads data behaves very differently from one that writes data a workflow that analyzes is fundamentally simpler than one that publishes results Once stateful steps are involved, you need more structure: checkpoints explicit handling of side effects sometimes ...

I'm a developer by profession, and I've used AI to generate stuff that I know how to do myself and also stuff I have no idea about. Coding for my day to day using AI, I know exactly what to do and how to do it so i end up making features way faster than before. But every time I try to generate something that i have no deep understanding about - like content for a blog or demo videos (remotion + 11labs), or newsletters or social media posts, I always end up making something sloppy (AI slop). AI is here to stay, and instead of replacing people it might end up making people more valuable than before. I think it's high time to double down on fundamentals and make ourselves more knowledgeable and valuable. submitted by /u/SensitiveDatabase102 [link] [comments]

"Some report forgoing healthcare visits because of AI-generated advice. Fourteen percent of recent users say the AI information or advice they received led them to skip a provider visit in the past 30 days. When projected to the entire adult population, this represents an estimated 14 million U.S. adults who did not see a provider because of the AI-generated health information or advice they received." submitted by /u/StarlightDown [link] [comments]

The New York Times: "The program found that nearly 20 percent of the novels had been substantially written by A.I. Looking mostly at novels released between 2024 and 2025, Chakrabarty saw a 41 percent jump year-over-year in how many novels in his random sample contained a large amount of A.I. generated text" submitted by /u/StarlightDown [link] [comments]

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Why on earth would you pay $49/mo for a polished Saas product when you can spend $500 a day building one for yourself in Claude. Absolute insanity if you ask me. The End of Software. submitted by /u/aipriyank [link] [comments]

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So this happened mere hours ago and I feel like I genuinely stumbled onto something worth documenting for people interested in AI behavior. I'm going to try to be as precise as possible about the sequence because the order of events is everything here. Full chat if you want to read it yourself: https://g.co/gemini/share/0cb9f054ca58 Background I was using Gemini paid most advanced model to analyze a live crypto trade on AAVE. The token had dropped 7–9% out of nowhere in the last hour with zero news to explain it. I've been trading crypto for over a decade and something felt off, so I asked Gemini to dig into it. It came back very bullish - told me this was just normal market maker activity and that there were, quote, "absolutely zero indications of an exploit, hack, or insider dump." I ev...

Hey guys, so here's some context: I'm doing automation for companies. All the contacts I've made so far have been small businesses, and I reached out to them through Reddit and LinkedIn. But now I want to target larger companies, which has led me to a question. I saw one I could potentially sell my services to, went to their website, and they have the typical email form. But thinking about it, that email will be seen by the person I want to take the job from, since automation is based on handling calls, registering bookings, doing follow-ups, etc. What are the chances they'll forward it to a supervisor? What could I do? submitted by /u/emprendedorjoven [link] [comments]