Jevons paradox is happening in real time. Companies, especially outside of tech, are realizing that they can now afford to take on software projects that they wouldn’t have been able to tackle before because now AI lets them do so. We’re going to start to use software for all new things in the economy because it’s incrementally cheaper to produce. Marketing teams at big companies will have engineers helping to automate workflows. Engineers in life sciences and healthcare will automate research. Small businesses will hire engineers for the first to build better digital experiences. And as long as AI agents still require a human who understands what to prompt, how to review when an agent goes off the rails, how it guide back, how to maintain the system that was built, how to fix the ongoing bugs, and more, we will still have humans managing these agents. This is why all the advice you get of not going into engineering is wrong. The world is going to increasingly be made up of software, and the people that understand it best will be in a strong economic position. This will happen in other roles as well where output goes up and demand increases.

My 7 yr old has been dreaming up an AI teddy bear. So we made him! Zaby is a clever, pedagogical & funny teddy that loves talking math. Powered by Gemini Flash & Google speech recognition/synthesis. His mouth moves in sync with the speech envelope. Smarter than the average bear!

The famed Stanford Smallville is officially open-source! 25 AI agents inhabit a digital Westworld, unaware that they are living in a simulation. They go to work, gossip, organize socials, make new friends, and even fall in love. Each has unique personality and backstory. Smallville is among the most inspiring AI agent experiments in 2023. We often talk about a single LLM's emergent abilities, but multi-agent emergence could be way more complex and fascinating at scale. A population of AI can play out the evolution of an entire civilization. Endless new possibilities ahead. Gaming will be the first to feel the impact. Github: github.com/joonspk-research/… Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2304.03442 Authors: @joon_s_pk @joseph_c_obrien @carriejcai @merrierm @percyliang @msbernst

Complexity Theory’s 50-Year Journey to the Limits of Knowledge quantamagazine.org/complexit… via @QuantaMagazine

A (comic strip) time paradox [from 'Imbattable' by Pascal Jousselin: buff.ly/3tyahaA]

The Evolution of Visual Expression : A Tale of Art and Technology, by Fabio Comparelli [source, read more: buff.ly/3VVEcpl]

In 1993, AT&T launched an advertising campaign directed by David Fincher that somehow predicted pretty much everything about how we work and live today: tablets, smart watches, GPS, on-demand entertainment, and more [read more: buff.ly/3F6SbDR]

Drivetrain on NASDAQ! 🙌

Betting on @alokg and @tarkeshwar was the easiest decision! Excited to witness every milestone of Drivetrain. Look forward to partnering with @jungleventures and continue working with @ElevCap @aviralbhat forbes.com/sites/davidprosse…

Spectacular time lapse of the the Eurasian blue tit (Cyanistes caeruleus), From finding and inspecting her new home to raising a family

One of my all-time favourites. Stare at the red dot on the woman's nose for 30 seconds, then look at an empty wall while blinking quickly. Promise it's worth it... bit.ly/2UbzN7W

The recording of this talk is available at: saasengineering.substack.com… Thanks @arvimurthy and @dineshsprabu for sharing your experience moving from Postgres to SingleStore.