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What do you still do manually in 2026 that should be automated?

https://figure.ai

Is the Job Market Actually Bad?

https://charmindustrial.com/

https://cs61.seas.harvard.edu/site/2025/

https://matthewgerring.com

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47917314

Best Embedding Models?

https://corvi.careers/blog/vector-search-embedding-compression/

https://huggingface.co/sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2

https://huggingface.co/spaces/mteb/leaderboard

Is there a term for feeling sad about forced AI adoption?

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/15/deep-blue/

Why would we care about "extended time horizons" and LLMs?

https://arxiv.org/html/2503.14499v3

https://metr.org/time-horizons/

https://subq.ai

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evSFeqTZdqs

Where are you getting your AI news from?

https://agentops.ca

https://www.alphaxiv.org/

https://www.automaticapress.com

https://eomail4.com/web-version?p=0fa89b02-4478-11f1-a1da-23e32d19d258&pt=campaign&t=1777550432&s=c2309f8608e17f8c87f4ed9735db9429200623685aa76e2d20f8f1f62045a3f6

https://lobste.rs/

https://www.therundown.ai

Those building Swift apps without touching Xcode, what is your workflow?

https://codeberg.org/luxmentis/xcede

https://www.swift.org/documentation/articles/zero-to-swift-emacs.html

Is a hands-off, family-friendly, de-Googled "home lab" feasible?

https://casaos.zimaspace.com/

https://immich.app

https://mini-rack.jeffgeerling.com/

When did you move from AI agentic loops to simpler deterministic system?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.25158