AI Shopping for Software program As an alternative of Salespeople; Educating Firms To Do Much less; Have the Swiss Figured Out Cheaper Housing? and +++ [link blog]

Labor Day weekend reads

Testing AI’s GeoGuesser Genius [Scott Alexander/Astral Codex Ten] – An in depth walkthrough of how good normal goal AI [as of May 2025] is at guessing areas primarily based off a single photograph (stripped of geo metadata in fact). It’s enjoyable to try to perceive how the fashions purpose the solutions right here.

When Software program Buys Software program [Jeff Morris Jr/New Internet] – Early examples of what occurs when AI fashions begin to suggest sure software program infrastructure merchandise in response to normal questions, and much more so, what occurs once they make their very own ‘buy’ selections agentically.

“Software program gained’t be offered over drinks. It’ll be chosen, evaluated, and built-in by brokers.”

One of many causes everyone seems to be attempting to determine what search engine marketing appears like in AI-world (coined AEO for now, accomplished by corporations like ScrunchAI, considered one of our current investments).

A ‘Third Method’ Between Shopping for or Renting? Swiss Co-ops Say They’ve Discovered It [Thomas Fuller/New York Times] – I’ll simply egregiously copy/paste to elucidate this one

In Switzerland’s member-based cooperative housing, new residents purchase shares to achieve admission to the constructing and get one vote within the company no matter what number of shares they personal. The co-op makes use of the cash to take care of the constructing, hold rents beneath market price and, typically, present communal facilities like baby care.

When a resident strikes out, their shares are returned at face worth. There isn’t any capital acquire.

Addition vs Subtraction [Molly Graham/Lessons] – Positing that organizations are inclined to all the time add extra to their plates than subtract. And why that’s an issue. 5 instruments from Molly to try to get higher at subtracting.

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