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Most people follow trends
I track what creates them

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Most people think AI is a tool story.

It’s not.

It’s a behavior story.
A trust story.
A power story.

I track the patterns:
– platforms reshaping belief
– AI changing how things feel
– incentives distorting culture

Follow if you want to see it before it’s obvious.

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Source: Nature on Sakana AI’s AI Scientist paper.
https://t.co/pImGn7Mndo

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The big shift is not that AI helps scientists.
It is that AI is moving closer to authorship.
Sakana AI getting an AI-generated paper into Nature is one of those moments that makes the just-a-tool argument sound outdated.

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Source: The Verge on Bluesky’s Attie app for AI-generated custom feeds. https://t.co/BxmajG7Qe3

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The interesting part is not AI for social.
It is this: users may start describing the feed they want instead of accepting the one the platform gives them.
That shifts control from algorithmic distribution toward user-defined distribution.

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Source: Microsoft rolled out Copilot upgrades including side-by-side model comparison, a “Critique” workflow, and early access to Copilot Cowork.
https://t.co/qyT6CGZfUl

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Microsoft is quietly admitting the real AI product shift:
one model is not enough. The next useful layer is orchestration.
Compare models.
Critique outputs.
Reduce hallucinations.
That is a real product improvement, not just better AI branding

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Search got worse.
Feeds got noisier.
Trust got harder.
That is why distribution now rewards people who sound real before they sound optimized.

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Most AI products still act like people want chat.
They do not. They want results with less work.
Chat is the temporary UI.
Invisible execution is the real product.