Tag: tasks

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Ben Hylak

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/12/ben-hylak/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Ben Hylak Feedly Summary: I was using o1 like a chat model — but o1 is not a chat model. If o1 is not a chat model — what is it? I think of it like a “report generator.” If you give it enough context, and…

  • Hacker News: The Canva outage: another tale of saturation and resilience

    Source URL: https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2024/12/21/the-canva-outage-another-tale-of-saturation-and-resilience/ Source: Hacker News Title: The Canva outage: another tale of saturation and resilience Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The incident at Canva, detailed by Brendan Humphries, highlights a series of interconnected failures that led to a significant service outage. Notably, a CDN misconfiguration and an API gateway performance…

  • Cloud Blog: Empowering retailers with AI for commerce, marketing, supply chains, and more

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/retail/retail-cpg-ai-partner-ecosystem-nrf-2025/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Empowering retailers with AI for commerce, marketing, supply chains, and more Feedly Summary: Google Cloud’s mission is to accelerate every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry — and a key part of doing that is with our ISV and service partners, who possess critical industry…

  • Hacker News: Contemplative LLMs

    Source URL: https://maharshi.bearblog.dev/contemplative-llms-prompt/ Source: Hacker News Title: Contemplative LLMs Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Short Summary with Insight:** The text discusses the novel approach of prompting Large Language Models (LLMs) to engage in a contemplation phase before generating answers. By mimicking a reasoning process, which encourages exploration and questioning assumptions, this method…

  • Hacker News: Ask HN: Pull the curtain back on Nvidia’s CES keynote please

    Source URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42670808 Source: Hacker News Title: Ask HN: Pull the curtain back on Nvidia’s CES keynote please Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights a professional’s skepticism regarding the transformative potential of AI and LLMs in engineering, despite optimistic industry visions like those presented by NVIDIA. It calls for…

  • Hacker News: I Program with LLMs

    Source URL: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/01/how-i-program-with-llms/ Source: Hacker News Title: I Program with LLMs Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the author’s personal experiences and insights from using generative AI models, specifically large language models (LLMs), in programming. It emphasizes the productivity benefits derived from LLMs and introduces a tool in development…

  • Hacker News: 41% of Employers Worldwide Say They’ll Reduce Staff by 2030 Due to AI

    Source URL: https://gizmodo.com/41-of-employers-worldwide-say-theyll-reduce-staff-by-2030-due-to-ai-2000548131 Source: Hacker News Title: 41% of Employers Worldwide Say They’ll Reduce Staff by 2030 Due to AI Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The World Economic Forum’s latest survey highlights expectations around generative AI’s impact on employment, indicating a shift in skills required, job roles at risk, and the…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: My AI/LLM predictions for the next 1, 3 and 6 years, for Oxide and Friends

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/10/ai-predictions/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: My AI/LLM predictions for the next 1, 3 and 6 years, for Oxide and Friends Feedly Summary: The Oxide and Friends podcast has an annual tradition of asking guests to share their predictions for the next 1, 3 and 6 years. Here’s 2022, 2023 and 2024. This…