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Ben DicksonIn-depth discussions about machine learning, deep learning, reinforcement learning, neural networks, artificial general intelligence, AI business, and other technology trends.
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Escaping the chain-of-thought trap: What is next for LLM reasoning
Chain-of-Thought prompting is slow, expensive, and largely an illusion. The future of machine reasoning happens in latent space.
Recent industry events point to a massive return-on-investment dilemma as AI token spend spirals out of contro...
How Codev brings discipline to AI software development
The software industry is currently obsessed with “vibe coding,” the process of using conversational AI prompts to generate software on the fly. For the first hour of a project, the experience feels like magic. You type a sentence, code appe...
Scaling the harness: The next major bottleneck in agentic AI
The dominant narrative of AI progress in recent years has been model building larger models and feeding them more data. But for long-horizon agentic AI, model scaling alone is not the ultimate solution.
AI agents don’t get their abilities...
What makes Cursor's Composer 2.5 a good coding model (and what are the caveats)
A deep look at the self-distillation techniques that make Composer 2.5 such a great coding model (and the hidden tradeoffs they introduce to AI reasoning).
The prevailing Silicon Valley narrative assumes that massive, general-purpose front...
How prompt injection broke Nvidia's sandboxed OpenClaw agent
The rapid adoption of autonomous AI agents like OpenClaw has introduced a fundamental security challenge: traditional defenses cannot predict what an LLM-driven application will do at runtime.
While containerization and virtual sandboxes i...
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