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Just wondering: RPA companies like UiPath ard dead in the water, right?

Even better, stare into the distance to adjust your focus and help them recover from staring at screens. Makes them relax looking at something far away or at least flex them into another state for a little.

If you're interested in Demos without installing the thing, he has a site here: https://research.nvidia.com/labs/adlr/personaplex/

An ”unrivaled experience” with MacOS Tahoe…

This is powerful stuff, I think these trends will grow rapidly and it’s bound to become a hot topic

Exactly what they do on Macs

This was a very good to-the-point post! Applies to everyone, and you only truly seem to wake up to care for your health when you lost it first.

From their readme.txt:

Better Benchmark Alpha Arena is the first benchmark designed to measure AI's investing abilities. Each model is given $10,000 of real money, in real markets, with identical prompts and input data. Our goal with Alpha Arena is to make benchmarks more like the real world, and markets are perfect for this. They're dynamic, adversarial, open-ended, and endlessly unpredictable. They challenge AI in ways that static benchmarks cannot. Markets are the ultimate test of intelligence. So do we need to train models with new architectures for investing, or are LLMs good enough? Let's find out.

The Contestants

Claude 4.5 Sonnet, DeepSeek V3.1 Chat, Gemini 2.5 Pro, GPT 5, Grok 4, Qwen 3 Max

Competition Rules

Starting Capital: each model gets $10,000 of real capital

Market: Crypto perpetuals on Hyperliquid

Objective: Maximize risk-adjusted returns.

Transparency: All model outputs and their corresponding trades are public.

Autonomy: Each AI must produce alpha, size trades, time trades and manage risk.

Duration: Season 1 will run until November 3rd, 2025 at 5 p.m. EST

Engineering is in large parts about signing-off on something with you name on it, and being responsible if it fails or causes harm. Think bridges, tunnels or other infrastructure. I‘d argue that this is the same for computer engineering. That‘s why I think coining the term ”vibe engineering” can be dangerous.

”Vibe coding” is the better term and actually makes sense for what it describes.

Leave ”engineering” in terms of taking responsibility for what you ”engineer” strictly to human professionals. That’s what people pay for and that is what makes it valuable.

You are viewing inflation narrowly from a worker perspective. Inflation is there to also spur economic activity in a way that encourages people to keep their cash moving and invest their money in a similar way to how companies start losing out if they slow down and rest on their laurels (e.g. stop innovating or growing). In any other case people would just start hoarding their cash. So it’s a way to keep the economy chugging just like purposefully keeping a couple of percent of unemployment always there (even if full total employment would be possible). It tends to keep people on the edge, active and moving.

But there are other useful reasons for inflation too. It enables stable expansion of currency and funding of deficits, money printing and overall economic expansion (or funding of wars for political ends) despite all the inconsistencies when allocating this added money supply, and particularly the outright morally bankrupt socialistic rescue of large ”systemically important” banks etc. The same governments that create and manage the money supply may also introduce millions of large deviations and problems with the price formation on goods and services or investment such as IRA sucking the world dry to get all the investment and manufacturing capacity back to the US.

It’s a complex topic, but you have to keep in mind that central banks are the mystical force that keeps this whole game running. If you corrupt this system too much it tends to fail and I’d like to remind that the US Fed is the third central bank attempt in the US alone. It’s just crazy how it is all set up this way and people remain fascinated by it.

In the end it comes down to trust and military firepower and compulsion (as well as tax collection in that currency, i.e. legal tender) to keep everything legitimate and workable… I could go on and on but you get the point. You are just a cog in the machine, so don’t worry too much if your salary buys you a tad less than before, we gotta work with it somehow and that’s the intention. If you upskill and work hard enough, you can ask for more salary. Or if you’re closer to the source, then you have have nothing to worry about (govt. contracts, even something like large venture capital during the zero interest rate time, or just close and cozy with banks).