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Raising the floor versus raising the ceiling
We believe that means that we should update how we talk about (and measure) success when using these tools, and we should expect that after the initial efficiency gains our focus will be on raising the ceiling of the work and outcomes we can accomplish, which is a very different way of interpreting tool investments. This helps explain the – perhaps unintuitive at first – observation that many of the developers we interviewed were paying for top-tier subscriptions. When you move from thinking about reducing effort to expanding scope, only the most advanced agentic capabilities will do.
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Moravec’s Paradox
Moravec’s paradox is the observation in the fields of artificial intelligence and robotics that, contrary to traditional assumptions, reasoning requires very little computation, but sensorimotor and perception skills require enormous computational resources. “it is comparatively easy to make computers exhibit adult level performance on intelligence tests or playing checkers, and difficult or impossible to give them the skills of a one-year-old when it comes to perception and mobility”
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Dystopia versus Utopia and AI
In other words, as Noah likes to say, “Dystopia is when robots take half your jobs. Utopia is when robots take half your job.”
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Prompt injections are still a problem - August 2025 edition
Independent AI researcher Johann Rehberger (previously) has had an absurdly busy August. Under the heading The Month of AI Bugs he has been publishing one report per day across an array of different tools, all of which are vulnerable to various classic prompt injection problems. This is a fantastic and horrifying demonstration of how widespread and dangerous these vulnerabilities still are, almost three years after we first started talking about them. Johann’s published research in August so far covers ChatGPT, Codex, Anthropic MCPs, Cursor, Amp, Devin, OpenHands, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot and Google Jules. There’s still half the month left!
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Perplexity’s offer to buy chrome is well… perplexing
It also would help it raise a bigger funding round itself, boosting its own valuation:
“Perplexity’s offer is significantly more than its own valuation, which is estimated at $18 billion. The company told The Wall Street Journal that several investors including large venture-capital funds had agreed to back the transaction in full.” Of course, Google itself is going to fight tooth and nail to not sell Chrome, which has become something like the successor to the once-dominant Microsoft Internet Explorer. Just as Internet Explorer once had a chokehold on the whole web, Chrome has an outsized influence on which features make it into the web platform. “In testimony this year, Pichai told the judge that forcing the company to sell it or share data with rivals would harm Google’s business, deter it from investing in new technology and potentially create security risks. Chrome has roughly 3.5 billion users worldwide and accounts for more than 60% of the global browser market.” It’ll be interesting to see what happens here. We don’t know if the judge will force a Chrome sale, and if it does, there will surely be other offers. (And perhaps it could strike a deal with an open source org like Mozilla to prevent a competitor from creating business risk for it.) But it’s a clear indication of the position Perplexity would like to take in the ecosystem — not just in AI, but in all of tech.
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Apple’s browser engine gatekeeping has still not come to an end…
This should be great news for consumers — particularly if these kinds of regulations are offered beyond the current three regions (EU, UK, and now Japan). Apple has traditionally been a laggard when it comes to adding open web features that might be competitive with native apps. Opening up the App Store to other browsers, and forcing browser choice, could help mitigate that and allow open web features to fall into the hands of iPhone and iPad users sooner.
One way this could go wrong, of course, is if it further entrenches Chrome’s position in the market. Chrome already represents two thirds of web browsers. Although Chrome does a far better job of supporting modern open web features (because it suits Google’s business model), it would be a real shame if regulation designed to promote competition actually reduces it on the web. (emphasis mine)
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