My hope is that these tools make software developers /more/ valuable, because now you can hire us and we can build more stuff for you! We might even see companies that didn't used to hire developers at all start employing developers to build them custom software solutions
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Software Engineers Unafraid of AI Tool Obsolescence
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I continue to be entirely unafraid that these tools are going to obsolete my skills as a software engineer
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Building AI-Powered Schedule Interface with Codex and Claude
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I scraped the schedule for @OpenSauceLive this morning and built this alternative schedule interface that includes the option to add everything to your calendar (via ICS)… working entirely on my iPhone, using OpenAI Codex and Claude Artifacts
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Microsoft Missed Opportunity in AI Agents for Knowledge Workers
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One implication from ChatGPT agent (not a creative name, but a descriptive one – a rare naming win!) is the labs are learning that many knowledge workers live in Excel & PowerPoint. Surprised that Microsoft did not do more to push past Copilots when they had this to themselves.
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SmolAgents Cerebras Ultra-Fast AI Agents Launch
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🤗 @HuggingFace SmolAgents x Cerebras 🚀
— Cerebras (@cerebras) 17 juillet 2025
Quickly launch far more capable, ultra‑responsive agents with
•Just a few lines of code
•~300 mstime to first token
•~2.6 k tok/s (≈ 19× GPU) pic.twitter.com/wQ5b8Vi0E6@HuggingFace SmolAgents x Cerebras Quickly launch far more capable, ultra‑responsive agents with
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Mistral Launches Voxtral: Open-Source Multilingual Speech Model
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🎙️ Voxtral just dropped
— Louis-François Bouchard 🎥🤖 (@Whats_AI) 17 juillet 2025
Voxtral = Mistral’s open-source, multilingual speech-understanding model
• 3B & 24B open weights
• $0.001 / min on HF API — ≈6× cheaper than Whisper
• 32 k context → 30-40 min audio in one go vs Whisper’s 30-second sliding windows (might be better… pic.twitter.com/SsyTWf96f4Voxtral just dropped Voxtral = Mistral’s open-source, multilingual speech-understanding model • 3B & 24B open weights • $0.001 / min on HF API — ≈6× cheaper than Whisper • 32 k context → 30-40 min audio in one go vs Whisper’s 30-second sliding windows (might be better
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Veo 3 Video API Pricing: $45 Per Minute Generation Cost
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75 cents per second for Veo 3 video generation via the new API (or 50 cents per second without audio) – that's $45/minute (or $30/minute silent) and $2,700 (or $1,800) per hour
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ChatGPT Pro Plus Team users tools toggle rolling out
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It's rolling out now to ChatGPT Pro, Plus, and Team users — accessible via the tools toggle
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AI Handles Calls for You
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AI can now talk to humans on the phone It calls your dentist, cancels your gym, argues with Comcast for you Pine AI just made customer service optional Here’s how it works ↓
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Claude Desktop Showcases Compelling AI Application Case
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very cool. most compelling case for claude desktop I've seen