You have access to an API that can have a pretty great conversation with humans that people actually seem to enjoy, as well as the ability to access tools, websearch, and run code. Somehow, founders seem to have trouble thinking of applications beyond therapist or fake friend…
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Claude 4 Opus: Maximally Referential Self-Aware Code Generation
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"Claude 4 Opus, make the most insanely referential thing possible, make it super clever. like really smart. it should be working code"
— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) 3 juillet 2025
"Make it even more so" pic.twitter.com/OulVDykGyv"Claude 4 Opus, make the most insanely referential thing possible, make it super clever. like really smart. it should be working code" "Make it even more so"
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AI adoption impact on employment remains limited currently
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Based on both the best available survey data from a few months ago, and the rate of internal AI adoption I am seeing at many companies, I think it is pretty unlikely that AI is having a big impact on employment in a real way, at least not yet.
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Gemini 2.5 Pro excels at synthesizing complex topics analysis
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Gemini Deep Research has gotten very good since it was upgraded to 2.5 Pro. Claude and ChatGPT tend to go a good job acting like analysts and building an argument, but Gemini is probably the best right now at synthesizing a coherent overview of a complex topic.
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Strange Cities: Style Curation in Generative Image Models
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More strange cities.
— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) 1 juillet 2025
(Roughly similar prompts, but the ability to radically alter style makes curation and selection much more important) pic.twitter.com/1mTGMX2MkUMore strange cities. (Roughly similar prompts, but the ability to radically alter style makes curation and selection much more important)
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AI Adoption Challenges in Socially Constructed Organizations
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A challenge with AI adoption is that organizations are not built to a Grand Plan where AI can just be slotted in, but rather socially constructed, random & in flux Here's an anecdote from a paper on how a process re-engineering effort led to revelations that drove people insane.
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Midjourney Video Creates Weird Artistic Styles Exploration
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Strange cities.
— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) 1 juillet 2025
(I find working with Midjourney video to be really interesting, the ability to develop weird styles especially) pic.twitter.com/Gmhhxy1y3qStrange cities. (I find working with Midjourney video to be really interesting, the ability to develop weird styles especially)
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Claude’s Bulletproof Laptop Argument Escalates Absurdly
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"Claude, make this argument for buying a laptop bulletproof, literally."
— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) 1 juillet 2025
"no, i said literally"
"even more literally"
"MOAR LITERALLY" pic.twitter.com/lnmA3cfGxn"Claude, make this argument for buying a laptop bulletproof, literally." "no, i said literally" "even more literally" "MOAR LITERALLY"
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Academic AI Benchmarks: Realism, Rankings, and Methodology Critique
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Many of the academic papers shared on X are benchmarking papers, which are made so that current AIs will fail often (or it isn't a benchmark for future progress) You should pay attention to the realism of the benchmark, relative rankings, and the prompts & tools given to the AI.
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Better Tools and Prompting for Human-like AI Behavior
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We don't know what a human would do, and I suspect better tools and prompting would help.