Sam Altman: still learn to write, because it teaches you how to think

In a Beyond AI interview, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt warns that AI coding agents, deep reasoning and recursive self-improvement could reshape the global economy faster than society can adapt.

A developer who uses Claude, Codex, and GPT daily for software development, work, and research says the tools made them significantly more productive but sometimes leaves them unsure what else to use them for. The r/artificial post asks whether that gap is a failure of imagination.

A r/LocalLLaMA user running Crawl4AI plus SearXNG says research results from local models feel lackluster, missing information or returning older, less relevant hits. They ask how to prompt for up-to-date, relevant information the way hosted assistants do.

Aatish Bhatia's "Let's Build a Brain" walks through wiring a light-seeking "spark" from a single sensory neuron to a motor neuron, then adds a second eye and flipper. The two-eye version initially steers away from the light, illustrating how naive wiring produces unexpected behavior.

The datasette-llm plugin now inherits the default model configured in LLM, so Datasette Agent runs without explicitly setting a default model. Previously users had to pass -s plugins.datasette-agent.default_model manually.

Qwen Code Desktop v0.26.5 adds paged recent messages, journal transactions, and exact operation or command lookups for Managed local H2 and Hosted MySQL. Generated UI is now on by default, letting users keep chatting with a card's values.