Took a photo of a whiteboard. Terrible lighting, half the text cut off, my thumb covering the corner. Uploaded it to Google’s Gemini with the prompt: “Build this.” Two minutes later, I had functioning React code implementing exactly what the whiteboard sketch showed. This is multimodal AI—models that understand images, …

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I asked OpenAI’s new o1 model to solve a logic puzzle. It thought for 34 seconds before responding. Thirty-four seconds of just… waiting. Watching a loading spinner while an AI “thinks.” Then it gave me a perfect answer, complete with step-by-step reasoning that actually made sense. This is the new frontier: AI that …

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We hired an AI agent last month. Not a person—an actual autonomous AI. It handles scheduling, email triage, and meeting prep. Company called it “Emma.” I call it a productivity nightmare wrapped in good intentions. First week was fine. Emma scheduled my meetings, sent polite decline emails, even summarized Slack …

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