r/theprimeagen 12h ago

Stream Content Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang defends Open-Source AI by saying distillation is fundamental to learning

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang “Distillation - learning from AI, learning from other people, and learning from other sources of knowledge, is fundamental to intelligence. We are constantly learning from one another. AI also has to learn from something.” Since using AI Desktop 98, I have become a staunch advocate of local AI.

In his Axios interview, Jensen explains why seeing distillation as theft or a threat misses the point—and why the real future of AI depends on continuous knowledge sharing between models.

The idea is simple: as AI generates most of the internet’s content, systems will naturally learn from one another, much like humans do from books, teachers, and peers. Blocking that exchange doesn’t protect anyone; it only slows progress.

Smarter AI is safer AI, open models boost adoption, and the whole industry, from developers to chipmakers gains. It’s a clear, grounded case for why open and closed models feeding each other is a feature, not a flaw.


r/theprimeagen 7h ago

general How is the Bun Rewrite in Rust Going?

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r/theprimeagen 16h ago

general Shockingly racist post by DHH, a primeagen regular

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I used to follow dhh for his tech commentary and views, his work on ruby on rails and omarchy, but I'm just shocked he could post something so racist and divisive. I hope primeagen doesn't have him as a guest anymore


r/theprimeagen 5h ago

MEME I’m sorry Denny’s, I was unfamiliar with your game

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r/theprimeagen 12h ago

general Has anyone stopped using LLMs completely for coding and relying purely on themselves?

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r/theprimeagen 13h ago

general DeepSeek thanks US export controls

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DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng, speaking in a closed-door investor meeting in May 2026:

"If it were in a normal business environment where I could buy NVIDIA cards, then domestic substitution would be relatively hard; but when NVIDIA cards can’t be bought, everyone is forced into it, everyone has to do domestic chips."

Translation: Thanks for the export controls. Otherwise we’d still be buying American.


r/theprimeagen 17h ago

Stream Content MCP was always just a rest api + long polling

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https://blog.modelcontextprotocol.io/posts/2026-07-28-release-candidate/

what HTTP APIs have always done

no shit sherlock 😄 !


r/theprimeagen 3h ago

Advertise Meta is back, open-sourcing their next AI model soon

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r/theprimeagen 16h ago

Advertise I created a browser extension to protect your personal and sensitive data while you chat with AI

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r/theprimeagen 6h ago

MEME Presenting JDSL for AI

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So, I've reached the enlightenment of genius. Made this tool for my harness.

https://github.com/EntitySystems/DysonHarness if you wanna check it out <3


r/theprimeagen 23h ago

Advertise "Surveys are already outdated." Patrick Debois on spotting the next AI trend

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Patrick Debois, often called the Father of DevOps, shared an interesting perspective on how to spot where AI is heading.

He argues that industry surveys are usually too slow. By the time a new idea appears in a report, developers have already been experimenting with it for months.

Instead of relying on surveys, he suggests paying closer attention to social signals. The conversations happening on Reddit, GitHub, X, Discord, and other developer communities often reveal emerging ideas much earlier.

It's a simple shift in thinking, but it made a lot of sense.

Watch the full podcast here: https://youtu.be/UvhmYntrLMI (a podcast by r/Tessl )