Diminishing Returns

In this episode, we discuss experiences with AI coding, layoffs and unemployment, DevOps Center, Salesforce's Q1 financials, Informatica acquisition, and AI agents.

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• Layoffs and Unemployment Grow Among College Graduates - The New York Times
• Victor on X: "Yann LeCun: I'm not interested in LLMs anymore - they're the past. The future is in four more interesting areas: machines that understand the physical world, persistent memory, reasoning, and planning. https://t.co/qRH7XVlbWq" / X
• Salesforce.com, Inc. - Salesforce Announces Quarterly Dividend
• Salesforce just unveiled AI 'digital teammates' in Slack — and they're coming for Microsoft Copilot | VentureBeat
• Salesforce to Change the Name of 35 Certifications: What You Need to Know | Salesforce Ben
• Luca Beurer-Kellner on X: "😈 BEWARE: Claude 4 + GitHub MCP will leak your private GitHub repositories, no questions asked. We discovered a new attack on agents using GitHub’s official MCP server, which can be exploited by attackers to access your private repositories. creds to @marco_milanta (1/n) 👇 https://t.co/ES9nuv2lzc" / X
• Chamath Palihapitiya on X: "Not nearly enough people are talking about the implications of Klarna rolling back some of their AI bets. Not knowing any of the details, I can guess why: Replacing determinism or humans with probabilistic code is fraught with edge cases and require new ways of software" / X
• Klarna Saved $2 Million After Cutting Ties With Salesforce - Bloomberg
• Satya Nadella on X: "Today, at Build we showed you how we are building the open agentic web. It is reshaping every layer of the stack, and our goal is to help every dev build apps and agents that empower people and orgs everywhere. Here are 5 big things we announced today:" / X
• Shruti on X: "@Google 1. Gemini Live (Now free on Android & iOS) → Turn on your camera → Point at anything → Talk to Gemini about it in real time It now integrates with Maps, Calendar, Tasks, Keep so planning, shopping, or fixing things just got way smarter. https://t.co/qY1qplKfDC" / X
• What you should know from the Google I/O 2025 Developer keynote - Google Developers Blog
• OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats - Ars Technica
• Toby Rogers on X: "Whoa. 😳😳😳 "Nonprofit AI lab Palisade Research gave OpenAI’s o3 AI model a simple script that would shut off the model when triggered. In 79 out of 100 trials, o3 independently edited that script so the shutdown command would no longer work." https://t.co/7fF1GYSmH5" / X
• Rohan Paul on X: "Yann LeCun is not so optimistic about LLMs. 😟 "We are not going to get to human level AI by just scaling up MLMs. This is just not going to happen. There's no way. Okay, absolutely no way. And whatever you can hear from some of my uh more adventurous colleagues, it's not going https://t.co/qyC654lfkG" / X
• GitHub CEO on Why We'll Still Need Human Programmers - The New Stack