There’s something happening in our IDEs that nobody’s talking about.
Not the obvious stuff—everyone sees the autocomplete getting smarter, the boilerplate evaporating, the bugs caught before they hatch. I’m talking about something deeper. Something that makes my Moroccan grandmother’s warnings about djinn possession feel less like folklore and more like… documentation.
We’re witnessing the first large-scale cognitive handoff between human and artificial intelligence. And it’s not just changing how we build software—it’s rewiring how our entire civilization processes information. — Read More
Daily Archives: August 19, 2025
Ranking the Chinese Open Model Builders
The Chinese AI ecosystem has taken the AI world by storm this summer with an unrelenting pace of stellar open model releases. The flagship releases that got the most Western media coverage are the likes of Qwen 3, Kimi K2, or Zhipu GLM 4.5, but there is a long-tail of providers close behind in both quality and cadence of releases.
In this post we rank the top 19 Chinese labs by the quality and quantity of contributions to the open AI ecosystem — this is not a list of raw ability, but outputs — all the way from the top of DeepSeek to the emerging open research labs. — Read More
35 Thoughts About AGI and 1 About GPT-5
…. Current AIs aren’t AGI. But I don’t know why.
I mean, I have thoughts. I talk about missing functions like “memory” and “continuous learning”, and possibly “judgement” and “insight”. But these are all debatable; for instance, ChatGPT has a form of memory. The honest answer is: I dunno what’s missing, but something is, because there are a lot of things AI still can’t do. Even if it’s getting harder and harder to articulate exactly what those things are. — Read More
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