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Developing AI field signal Signal 1d ago

Google ai open web

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Data & Society Taylor Lorenz Kashmir Hill Christopher Mims kate conger nilay patel Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis Dare Obasanjo +1

“As web searches are increasingly performed by AI chatbots, the number of people visiting websites is falling. It's a change that poses a serious threat to the open web. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/t...”

“Long ago, Yelp complained that Google was hurting its business by surfacing information from Yelp in Google searches such that people stopped visiting Yelp. (Lawsuit over this ongoing.) With AI mode, the rest of the web is now feeling Yelp's pain: www.nytim…”

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Luis Villa: @uhjustin.bsky.social a billion people a month use ChatGPT. It has more users than Wikipedia does, and is by any metric the fastest growing product in history. There’s a lot of complex and importan…
Luis Villa: @uhjustin.bsky.social because life is too short to argue on the internet with random strangers, and because I’m on vacation. Muting you now, have a great life!
Luis Villa: @viperx83.bsky.social anyway here’s Cloudflare data saying human web browsing is falling off a cliff https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/technology/google-ai-open-web.html
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Established Models & releases Development 19d ago
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Claude Code AskUserQuestion timeout danger bug

[BUG] **EXTREME DANGER**: AskUserQuestion: "No response after 60s — continued without an answer" · Issue #73125 · anthropics/claude-code

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) Luis Villa Max Woolf jeremymorrell.dev

“github.com/anthropics/c... ahh okay they've made it configurable in /config now”

“There is, as you would imagine, discourse github.com/anthropics/c...”

3 experts discussed this · 13 posts
Max Woolf: wait this was ON PURPOSE? and they're making it opt-in "for now"? github.com/anthropics/c... unsafe at any speed (their product decisions)
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: “What if your dev tools were designed to attention hack you?”
Carlos Scheidegger: I think “lost time” is not the right framing. If the model judged that it needed user intervention, the fact that the answer hasn’t arrived in a while doesn’t change that original judgement. It eit…
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Established AI field signal Signal 4d ago

arxiv.org

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Grace Luis Villa

“Bluesky loves to Trust the Experts until it comes to this particular issue. Here's Prof. Eric Schwitzgebel on the subject: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.09858”

2 experts discussed this · 6 posts
Grace: Bluesky loves to Trust the Experts until it comes to this particular issue. Here's Prof. Eric Schwitzgebel on the subject: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.09858
Grace: The article overall is pretty measured and reasonable. I do have qualms with the "character-level" interventions mentioned here, as the relationship to subjective experience is unclear, and might d…
Grace: Thank you!
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Established Models & releases Analysis 3d ago
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LLM reasoning effort control analysis

Controlling Reasoning Effort in LLMs

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Luis Villa

“@gremblor.com (you probably already know this but good intro that I happen to be in the middle of https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/controlling-reasoning-effort-in-llms?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web )”

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Tim Kellogg: GLM-5.5 is supposedly landing in August. Probably not Fable-level, but close, and larger than 1T (which for a GLM, i’ll expect a 2-4T feel)
Luis Villa: @gremblor.com that may just be that it is surfacing reasoning traces more than other models?
Luis Villa: @gremblor.com (you probably already know this but good intro that I happen to be in the middle of https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/controlling-reasoning-effort-in-llms?utm_campaign=post&utm_…
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Established Culture, work & education Analysis 6d ago
John Henry cerebellum AI labor essay

the legend of john henry's cerebellum

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Luis Villa

“This essay makes me want to re-read Drucker’s Effective Executive, because the world @dsquareddigest.bsky.social describes is one where more people are acting as (good) executives—making hard decisions and only hard decisions. https://backofmind.substack.co…”

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Debates gaining attention

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5 experts · 15 posts · 17d ago
Eli Sennesh Dustin Moskovitz Pwnallthethings Luis Villa Singularity's Bounty e/cc
Eli Sennesh: we constantly rely on unreliable tools (some of them in meat suits and with hair) by adding compensating controls around their actions so the outputs are bounded and, while not deterministic, predi…
Pwnallthethings: tbf this was also true before. Everyone knows the confident BS artist MBAs and nepo-babies at the top of some orgs who have zero ideas of their own or value-creation, but wear a nice suit and say t…
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3 experts · 22 posts · 20d ago
David Marx Luis Villa mackuba.eu
Luis Villa: Part of why housing discourse is such a mess is that when housing prices are successfully lowered by local government policy (which is exactly what happened here!), it gets reported by the local pa…
Luis Villa: The city in question is Emeryville, and after a lot of speculation, the second-to-last paragraph mentions “oh yeah also there is a lot of new supply of housing in Emeryville maybe that has somethin…
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