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I put an Agent Claude in my CI for 3 months, here is what he really did

Retour d’experience sur l’automatisation de déploiements avec un agent LLM et sur les gardes-fous qu’il a fallu inventer en cours de route L’idée est venue d’un frustration banale.

  • Reporter used Claude LLM agent to automate Terraform deployment on $12 VPS
  • Claude achieved 85% success rate on mechanical errors but struggled with opaque AWS errors
  • Agent revealed existing technical debt and highlighted need for safety measures

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Running Local LLMs with RamaLama and Docker on a Mac: A Hands-On Guide

RamaLama runs large language models as OCI containers, so a single command ( ramalama run smollm:135m ) pulls a model and starts talking to it, with no Python environment to babysit.

  • RamaLama simplifies running large language models as container images
  • Successfully installed RamaLama 0.24.0 on Apple Silicon Mac
  • --nocontainer flag leverages Apple GPU for faster token generation

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AI Disruption Has Plenty of Opinions. Now It Has a Prediction Market.

AI Disruption Has Plenty of Opinions. Now It Has a Prediction Market. Everyone’s heard the Sherlock Holmes story about the dog that didn’t bark. The one where a champion racehorse disappears and its trainer turns up dead. Everyone’s poking around the crime scene trying to find a clue to solve the mystery.

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Three Things to Know About Customer Resistance to AI

Microsoft Copilot/Unsplash Companies are betting that AI chatbots will deliver faster and cheaper customer service. But if you’ve ever tried to circumvent a chatbot and get to a human, you’re not alone. Here’s what three recent studies discovered about when customers will and won’t let AI do a human’s job. 1.

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Copilot Pages: Work side by side with AI

When you’re working with Microsoft Copilot to create a business document, you might find yourself torn between two opposing instincts. Part of you is itching to edit its output right away, while another part wants to keep prompting the AI assistant to refine the generated text. Turns out you can do both.

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“Emergente sem AI” (e ainda sem reformas), Brasil continua sem fluxo

Sem teses diretamente ligadas à inteligência artificial, e sob a sombra do quadro fiscal e da indefinição eleitoral, o Brasil continua esquecido pelos investidores globais.

  • Global investors avoid Brazil without AI connections and fiscal uncertainty.
  • Brazilian stock funds have been pulling money almost weekly since 2023.
  • Chile, Colombia, and Peru attract investment due to structural reforms and higher growth.

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Jobs Artificial Intelligence Will Not Be Able to Replace for Now

Artificial intelligence is transforming the labor market at a pace that would have seemed unlikely just a few years ago. Tools capable of writing texts, analyzing large volumes of information, generating images, programming software, and answering questions are changing how companies and workers perform numerous tasks.

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AI could become Malaysia’s next productivity engine — from SMEs to public services

ARTIFICIAL Intelligence (AI) could become a powerful new engine of productivity for Malaysia, helping businesses reduce costs, enabling workers to focus on higher-value tasks and allowing the…

  • AI could boost Malaysia's productivity across SMEs and public services
  • Affordable AI tools help SMEs perform tasks previously requiring more employees or consultants
  • AI addresses Malaysia's demographic challenges and enhances energy resilience

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The feds seized a stake in Anthropic from Sam Bankman-Fried's friends. What happened to the shares?

Sam Bankman-Fried's Anthropic stake was liquidated in bankruptcy court two years ago. His friends' shares went down a different path.

  • Sam Bankman-Fried's friends Caroline Ellison and Nishad Singh invested in Anthropic.
  • Federal government seized their Anthropic shares after their fraud convictions.
  • Anthropic stake acquired by government without payment, fate unclear.
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