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How To Fall Behind in The Age of AI

3 days ago | ignorance.ai | Charlie Guo

Hey everyone - I'm in SF this week for the AI Engineer World's Fair! If you're here, shoot me a DM and come say hi. I've pre-recorded a talk for the conference's Online Track, and you can check it out here:In the meantime, enjoy this completely earnest and not at all satirical post. Look, I get it. Every day, dozens of headlines proclaim that AI is the next big thing, or is coming for our jobs, or might end human civilization as we know it. It's exhausting. And honestly, who has the time?
AI Roundup 120: DeepSeek's back

1 week ago | ignorance.ai | Charlie Guo

Months after rocking the AI world in January, Chinese startup DeepSeek is back with R1-0528, an update to its open-source reasoning model.
The Claude 4 System Card is a Wild Read

1 week ago | ignorance.ai | Charlie Guo

Claude 4 launched last week, and there's been plenty of chatter about the model's performance. It technically outperforms on SWE-bench verified, but at this point, most of the nuances have to be tested in real-world situations. I've been experimenting with it nearly daily within Cursor, and my initial impressions are that it loves coding just as much as previous versions of Claude (which is to say—a lot).
AI Roundup 119: I/O, io, Codex, Claude

2 weeks ago | ignorance.ai | Charlie Guo

Google I/O came and went this week, with an enormous amount of new AI launches. For a deeper look at the major releases, there's The Verge and TechCrunch (though I also liked this developer-focused breakdown from ). All the announcements I could find:An updated Gemini 2.5 Pro and 2.5 Flash, with several new features for the models. Deep Think, an enhanced Gemini 2.5 Pro reasoning mode, excels at math and coding benchmarks. Gemma 3n preview, an open "mobile-first" model designed to run on devices.
SEO for AI: A look at Generative Engine Optimization

2 weeks ago | ignorance.ai | Charlie Guo

Imagine you're in the market for a new commuter backpack. If you're like me, your instinct might be to type "best commuter backpack for professionals" into Google, scroll through a page of links, open multiple tabs, and spend 20-60 minutes comparing options across different websites. Lately though, I've been developing a new muscle memory.
AI Roundup 118: AlphaEvolve

3 weeks ago | ignorance.ai | Charlie Guo

I’ll be in SF for the AI Engineer World's Fair next month. If you’ll be there - I’m looking forward to connecting with other folks at the event!This week DeepMind announced AlphaEvolve, an "evolutionary coding agent" powered by Gemini designed to discover and optimize algorithms. It uses an "evolutionary framework" to improve upon its various ideas.
AI's Missing Multiplayer Mode

3 weeks ago | ignorance.ai | Charlie Guo

When we look at the explosive growth of AI over the past few years, it's easy to be awestruck by the pace of innovation (and indeed, I often am). ChatGPT, Claude, and their increasingly capable cousins are moving beyond summarizing documents and generating code, and are now laying siege to increasingly complex and specialized benchmarks. Yet for all this remarkable progress, I often feel like there's a major missing element from my AI experience: collaboration.
AI Roundup 117: Google Killer

4 weeks ago | ignorance.ai | Charlie Guo

The DOJ's antitrust case against Google continues to generate new revelations about Big Tech. For example, Apple's Eddy Cue shared that Google searches fell in Safari for the first time ever last month: "That has never happened in 22 years."Why it matters:Cue connected the numbers dip to the increased use of AI, which Apple is now considering adding to Safari (for what it's worth, Google stated that overall searches are still growing, but no mention of Safari).
The $3 Billion IDE

1 month ago | ignorance.ai | Charlie Guo

OpenAI is reportedly finalizing its acquisition of Windsurf (formerly Codeium) for approximately $3 billion - an enormous sum for a company that's only a few years old. But the deal - OpenAI's largest to date - has raised quite a few questions, the biggest being: Why is an AI code editor worth three billion dollars? Rumors of this deal have been swirling for weeks, with Bloomberg being the latest to offer all-but-confirmation of the acquisition.
AI Roundup 116: LlamaCon / Meta AI

1 month ago | ignorance.ai | Charlie Guo

Meta came out with a one-two punch this week, first showcasing several developer-oriented features at its inaugural LlamaCon, then announcing a standalone Meta AI app for consumers. The major LlamaCon announcements:A Llama API (in limited preview), combining closed model API features with open-source flexibility for easy API key creation and interactive model playgrounds.