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A user references a YouTube video predicting the bursting of the AI bubble and discusses the potential positive or negative outcomes for the future of AI.

Elon Musk and Jamie Dimon will discuss SpaceX live from J.P. Morgan's global headquarters.

Hacker News users share their 'oh shit' moments with generative AI, expressing skepticism about overhyped promises and recounting personal experiences where AI assisted with complex tasks like reverse-engineering synth software.

A discussion about whether AI agents can reliably automate complex, multi-step workflows without constant human supervision, asking about current limitations and experiences.

The author describes rewriting their AI agent infrastructure for reliability using DBOS durable execution after facing cascading failures, and asks the community about similar experiences, tool choices, and build-vs-buy decisions.

A user shares their experience testing various cloud AI agents for daily workflows, finding most unreliable for production use, and asks the community for recommendations on agents that handle long tasks, maintain context, avoid hallucinations, and work asynchronously.

Explores how AI can be used to design hardware (such as turbine blades) when software can be vibe-coded, involving a discussion between Naval, Vercel CEO, and Boom Supersonic founder.

Discusses whether application-layer developers still have opportunities given that giants like OpenAI and Anthropic may dominate the underlying AI capabilities, and how to choose the right direction.

The author reflects on being immersed in an AI-saturated online bubble and asks how the average person is actually using AI—if at all.

A subscriber-only roundtable discussion from MIT Technology Review exploring how AI might develop world models to understand the physical world, featuring editor in chief Mat Honan, senior AI editor Will Douglas Heaven, and AI reporter Grace Huckins.

A discussion about whether AI agents are practically useful beyond demos, with users sharing experiences in lead generation, customer support, and workflow automation.

A subscriber-only roundtable discussion featuring AI reporter Michelle Kim and editor in chief Mat Honan explores the inside story of the Musk v. Altman trial and its implications for the AI race.

A discussion thread on Lobsters asking developers what features they would like to see in a code forge, particularly regarding version control presentation and collaboration models, referencing tools like Jujutsu and Git.

The article questions whether AI's demonstrated capability automatically translates into real-world productivity, highlighting gaps like workflow ownership, reliability, and integration into complex human systems.

A discussion prompt asking for unusual and practical non-writing, non-coding use cases for LLMs that people have actually adopted.

A user asks the community about using small/local language models within agent workflows for specific tasks like routing, classification, and extraction, and shares thoughts on whether larger models are always necessary.

Judea Pearl argues that there are mathematical limitations to learning solely from data, citing the inability to infer causation from correlation. The article prompts discussion on whether pure data-driven learning is sufficient.

The article critiques Git, arguing that it is not as fine as commonly perceived, and links to a discussion on Lobste.rs.

A discussion on lobste.rs where tech workers share their practices of tech minimalism, such as avoiding smart home devices, using pen and paper, and writing custom software.

Discussion on making code forges spam resistant.