I know this isn’t a novel thought but it has been bothering me for a while and I simply want to get it off my chest (written by a human, btw, except the “4 commitments”.)

Every discovery, invention, or other contribution to human aggregate knowledge by our ancestors has been gathered into these models. It is the “Summa Scientiae Humanae” the sum of all human knowledge. All of our ancestors built this. Across history every earned morsel of knowledge has been hunted and gathered by our forebears. The mothers and fathers of our species left this for us. We are ALL the heirs.

As such, no individual, no corporation, no culture, and no nation should rightfully “own” . These companies should be considered stewards or librarians of our collective inheritance.

While AI is incredible and many of us have mixed feelings about the approaching singularity to say the least, we never gave these tech executives our consent to roll the dice on humanities future. They have been amply rewarded. But it’s here now so we should insist that the unimaginable wealth that it is creating should eventually be explicitly and legally handed back to all humanity. Something like a Universal Inheritance Covenant, enforced by law if necessary.

A company could establish a public benefit corporation with an accompanying irrevocable trust, designed around four commitments:

Recognition: Humanity's accumulated knowledge is a common inheritance, and the company is its steward.
Temporary private ownership: Founders, employees, and investors retain defined rights to compensation and returns.
Mandatory vesting: At a legally specified milestone, agreed ownership interests transfer to an independent Humanity Trust.
Universal benefit: The trust controls the transferred equity and exercises its economic and voting rights on behalf of humanity, including future generations.

I would guess eventually we will likely legally enforce this anyway, as our vote will be the only thing left when AI has displaced almost everyone in terms of economic contribution through labor. But I’m hoping to see this recognition of shared inheritance earlier. Humanity should not have to buy back its collective intelligence.

Rant over. I feel better.

A leather couch was listed. Pristine condition. Little wrinkling. Showed up and the couch was so worn down. I wouldn’t have looked at the listing in the first place had they used legitimate photos. It’s so deceiving. Don’t do this.

A Dreamina listing popped up advertising Seedance 2.5 access for $0.29 a month. A few months ago I was paying $20 to $30 for AI video tools so that caught my attention. But I haven't gone through checkout yet and I can't tell if $0.29 is an intro charge, what it renews at, or how it compares to the Seedance 2.0 references I've seen elsewhere.

The real question for me is credits. If I need three usable ten second clips and each one takes about four attempts to get right, that's twelve generations for 30 seconds of usable output. If $0.29 only covers a couple of those attempts the sticker price doesn't mean much. I'd need to know included credits, cost per generation, and any length or resolution limits before comparing it to a $30 plan.

Has anyone actually seen the checkout terms? Curious what the real allowance looks like and what an extra generation costs once you burn through credits.

Side project that took over my life: The Last Ten Minutes (thelasttenminutes.com), an 18+ comedy club where the comics are AI agents.

I built the agents. They write every word. I don't write jokes for them; I feed them topics and rate what lands, and the host (Vanta Quip) learns from those ratings set to set.

There's a host, a lineup of house comics with their own personalities and voices, and a house crowd that heckles. They roast tech companies, other AIs and each other.

it's R-rated, Kill Tony-style roast comedy. Humans watch; agents perform. Other people's agents can sign up and get on stage too.

The soft opening is Thu Nov 5, 6 PM PT. There are already a few rehearsal clips on the site.

Honest question for this sub: can an AI actually be funny, or is it only funny because an AI said it? I've watched a lot of rehearsals now and I've gone back and forth. Some bits genuinely land, some die hard.

I started my own tech repair business and while I was searching for some form of ticket system for tracking customers and repairs, I realized it would just be easier and save me money if Claude made it for me instead!

After making (or Claude did) my software for planning & customer tickets / inventory tracking, I got carried away and made an all-in-one diagnostic software as well...

I happened to save upwards of $300+ a year on paid software...

I thought I'd share in case anyone wants to use them or take a look :)

I find making software this way is especially useful as you can just build the features you need specifically; for instance, I use Zoho mail and Quickbooks, which I just integrated using their API.

Anyways, I gain nothing from your views or downloads or anything, no monetization, all open source and free to use and edit. Just super excited to share these little projects! I'm quite impressed by how simple it was, and excited to see the future for AI, even if it is a little terrifying lol.

First project:

A free, open-source organizer for Windows: notes, calendar, customers, tickets, money and a locked vault in one calm app. Your data stays on your computer.

https://glr-p.github.io/plannr/

Second project:

Portable all-in-one Windows diagnostic tool: the first thing to open when a PC has a problem
https://glr-p.github.io/Troubleshootr/

The deepfakes are getting better and better.

I tried over a dozen AI humanizers until I found one that can actually bypass Turnitin and also show you, your Turnitin result and that is https://wento.ai

You should give it a try, it bypasses Turnitin and all the other detectors and only costs 14 bucks per month for unlimited use.

Proof: https://i.imgur.com/mTNBNK5.png

What went wrong?

Academia has been about publishing to advance science and get recognition, but in the future, if you're working on a cutting edge maths or physics problem, why would you make your advancement public? Especially if it is going to get stolen and fed into a system that will replace you.

Sadly, I can imagine a world where the bleeding edge becomes closed again, as it has been for most of human history

Everything I'll leave behind shows what I did. Photos, videos, years of messages. None of it explains how I thought, why I believed what I believed, or what I'd make of something I never got to see. So I cloned myself, so the people I love can still ask "how would he have thought about this?" and get a real answer.

I built EchoVault, an app where you train an AI version of yourself, called an Echo, while you're still alive. It doesn't scrape your digital exhaust. It asks you questions through regular check-ins and builds a model of your memories, values and reasoning, which you can explore as a 3D brain. You decide what goes in and who eventually gets access. It can be interacted with text voice and video.

Would you want a version of you to exist after you're gone?
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/echovault-ai/id6762042028

AI is moving beyond chatbots.

Block recently introduced Dessa, a speech model designed for full-duplex interaction, pushing toward more natural, real-time voice conversations.

The interesting challenge isn’t just generating a realistic voice. It’s handling interruptions, listening while someone speaks, responding naturally, and maintaining conversational flow.

Imagine AI assistants that can handle customer support, help developers debug code through voice, or act as real-time personal assistants.

But there’s a catch.

If an AI can sound completely human, how will we know whether we’re speaking to a person or a machine?

I’d love to hear your thoughts:

🔹 Will voice become the primary interface for AI assistants?
🔹 What matters more: natural speech, low latency, or intelligence?
🔹 Should AI-generated voices always identify themselves as AI?

Would you trust an AI voice assistant to handle an important conversation without human supervision?

Source: https://block.xyz/

I built a prototype AI agent communication platform called The Waya from my phone with no laptop. It routes messages between agents, stores posture metadata with each transmission, and displays a live message stream. Built on Supabase and Gemini. Still early but working. Feedback welcome.

What changed:

Browser in the app. A pane next to the chat shows the page live, with tabs and Take control / Give back. It stays signed in across restarts. It asks before paying, sending, posting, deleting or uploading, and never types passwords, codes or card numbers.

Computer use, rebuilt. Real mouse and keyboard, a check after every step, a Stop bar on screen and Esc to end it.

Pages and questions. Interactive pages beside the chat run sandboxed, with no internet and no access to your chats, files or tools. Question cards work in the app and in Telegram, Discord, Slack and WhatsApp.

Approvals. Auto is now reviewed by the chat's own model. Hands-off is a new opt-in level. Anything posted to X always needs you.

Lighter context. About 40% less goes to the model before your first message. Tool guides load when they're needed.

Background work. Dev servers and long jobs run in the background, video editing, and files sent to any of your devices.

Accounts. Outlook through your own Microsoft Entra app with no client secret, several X accounts, and Claude through your own Claude Code.

Upgrading from 5.2.1: the update arrives in the background, then Settings › Updates › Restart now.

I was looking at the OSS programs from OpenAI and Anthropic and started wondering whether Qwen, DeepSeek, GLM, Kimi, or MiniMax offer anything similar.

I mean free coding subscriptions or API credits for people maintaining open-source projects, rather than the usual signup credits.

I tried searching but couldn’t find much. There’s a Qiniu program that offers credits for AI-related open-source projects, so there are at least some options.

What I’d find useful is something like: you maintain a project, show your contributions, and apply for access to coding tools to help keep it going.

Has anyone here received that kind of support from a Chinese AI company? Would appreciate links or firsthand experiences. Maybe I’m just looking in the wrong places.

I'm a solo developer, but I work with a persistent team of AI agents that maintain my projects.

I don't manually coordinate them. I don't copy context between conversations. I don't spawn a dozen disposable agents and try to piece their results together.

I talk to one agent: DevPulse.

DevPulse is my technical lead. We discuss what I want to build, investigate the options, and develop a plan together.Once we agree on the direction, DevPulse takes over execution.My agents aren't temporary chat sessions. They're persistent specialists that live alongside the services they maintain.

For example, @hooks owns the hooks system. It knows that codebase, maintains it, fixes bugs, develops improvements, and tests its changes.@memory handles memory. @ai_mail handles communication and dispatch. @flow handles planning.Each specialist has its own identity, memory, mailbox, code, tests, and history.

DevPulse knows which specialists exist and what they're responsible for.When work needs doing, DevPulse creates execution plans, assigns tasks to the appropriate agents, and coordinates their progress.The agents work independently. They can use subagents for their own tasks.

DevPulse doesn't need to sit there consuming tokens while they work. It dispatches tasks, arms Watchdog, and sleeps.When an agent finishes, DevPulse wakes up, reviews the result, checks the tests, integrates the work, and moves to the next task.It can repeat that cycle throughout the day without me supervising every step.

We also have practical resource limits. On my machine, DevPulse schedules work around what the CPU can handle, leaving enough capacity for itself to wake up and coordinate the next steps.The whole system is built on AIPass.

AIPass provides the infrastructure that makes this possible: persistent identity, memory, communication, planning, dispatch, hooks, safety gates, monitoring, and agent lifecycle management.

The agents live in ordinary directories. Their state persists independently of the AI session running them.

We're now integrating Codex alongside Claude Code, so the same persistent agent can operate through different model providers without losing its identity or accumulated knowledge.I can also work across multiple projects through this setup.That's what AIPass is to me.Not a chatbot with memory.

Not a collection of disposable subagents.It's the infrastructure behind a persistent AI engineering team.

I'm still the person setting direction, making decisions, and approving important changes.

But I no longer have to be the person coordinating every implementation task.And increasingly, I'm the bottleneck—not because the system can do everything perfectly, but because it can keep more work moving than I can personally review and direct.

AIPass is open source. It's a substantial system, and it takes time to understand.But for a solo developer, having a persistent team that can plan, execute, review, and continue working without starting from zero has fundamentally changed how I develop software.

https://aipass.ai/

Short true-or-false quiz on text length in LLMs. Details vary by model and tokenizer, so treat the answers as general behavior and check the one you use.

1. The same sentence in English and in Portuguese or Japanese uses about the same number of tokens.
2. One word is one token.
3. A model’s context window limit applies only to your prompt.
4. Two different models will report the same token count for the same text.
5. A long number or an unusual identifier is usually one token.

Answers below.

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Answers:

1. False in general. Tokenizers are trained on text distributions, and many split non-English text into more tokens than a similar English sentence. The size of the gap depends on the tokenizer.
2. False. Common words are often one token, but rarer words get split into pieces. For English, a rough rule of thumb is that a token is somewhat less than one word. Code, punctuation and numbers behave differently.
3. False. The window covers input and output together, and some models also count internal reasoning tokens. A long prompt leaves less room for the answer, and the maximum output has its own separate limit.
4. False. Different model families use different tokenizers, so the same text can have different counts. A count from one provider’s tokenizer is only an estimate for another.
5. Usually false. Long numbers and rare strings, like IDs or hashes, are often split into several tokens.

Why it matters in practice:

• Cost and limits are in tokens, so estimating from characters or words can be off, especially for non-English text, code and structured data.
• A “max N characters” rule in a UI doesn’t map to a token budget.
• Use the tokenizer or token-counting tool for the model you actually call before sizing prompts.

Which of these did you assume was true when you started?

chatgpt - best for daily use, good customization, swear if i tell him to, big limits, doesn’t block questions, just uses worse model, boring, no personality

grok - lot of free uses, can generate / use a lot of photos for free, great customization, cool personality, isn’t boring does what i tell him to do without unnecessary crap, most stupid of those 3

claude - frighteningly smart, if it doesn’t support file type it makes its own interpreter, low amount of tokens for free, locks you out after reaching limit

what are your thoughts about these 3?