Cisco says its new entanglement chip could speed up practical quantum computing timeline by a decade - I'm not an expert at quantum computing but it seems significant that the chip "generates up to one million entangled photon pairs per second, and does so at room temperature". My impression was that so far the most advanced tech in the industry was only able to create in the order of 1000 simultaneous entangled pairs, and that was at crazy cold temperatures. fastcompany.com #
Wednesday, May 7, 2025
As an Experienced LLM User, I Actually Don't Use Generative LLMs Often - It's interesting to learn how the LLM pros are using this new tech. There is a lot of tricks and nuance. You really have to have a good idea which type of problems are a good fit. minimaxir.com #
Maker of AI ‘vibe coding’ app Cursor hits bn valuation - I keep hearing about and seing the Cursor editor in all things related to AI developer tools and vibe coding. Haven't tried it myself yet. ft.com #
I built an AI code review agent in a few hours, here's what I learned - Interesting to hear from devs actually building developer tools that use AI. Many of the things the author describes I have seen variations of too. sourcebot.dev #
The AI wearables are always listening (Vergecast Podcast) - With the previous link in mind, this episode of Vergecast seems particularly relevant. Both journalists recount somewhat hilarious situations their wearables ran into. As David Pierce describes, and I am paraphrasing, the bar to be human is very high. There are just so many crazy complicated situations that we are immersed in daily. podcastindex.org #
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