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AI coding makes you worse at learning â and not even any faster
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/06/ai-coding-makes-you-worse-at-learning-and-not-even-any-faster/
Published: February 6, 2026 21:02
Hereâs a new preprint from Anthropic: âHow AI Impacts Skill Formationâ. AI coding bots make you bad at learning, and donât even speed you up. [arXiv] The researchers ran 50 test subjects through five basic coding tasks using the Trio library in Python.âŠ
As perdas de emprego sĂŁo reais, mas a desculpa da IA Ă© falsa
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/06/as-perdas-de-emprego-sao-reais-mas-a-desculpa-da-ia-e-falsa/
Published: February 6, 2026 14:49
A translation by Rodrigo Ghedin at Manual do UsuĂĄrio into Portuguese of The job losses are real â but the AI excuse is fake is up now! [Manual do UsuĂĄrio]
The OpenAI and Nvidia $100b not-a-deal is off
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/05/the-openai-and-nvidia-100b-not-a-deal-is-off/
Published: February 5, 2026 21:50
Late last year, OpenAI was frantically signing deals for hundreds of billions of dollars! Six gigawatts of GPU chips from AMD! A hundred billion dollar deal with Nvidia for ten gigawatts of GPU chips! The press went wild! Stock prices got quite the boost!âŠ
Microsoft walks back AI in Windows 11! Yeah, right
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/04/microsoft-walks-back-ai-in-windows-11-yeah-right/
Published: February 4, 2026 22:32
Microsoft hasnât been having the greatest month or two. In November, Pavan Davuluri,President of Windows and Devices, proclaimed Microsoftâs Agentic Operating System future! Users told him nobody wanted this, and what they wanted was a Windows that workedâŠ
Iâm on Ed Zitronâs Better Offline podcast talking about OpenClaw and Moltbook
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/04/im-on-ed-zitrons-better-offline-podcast-talking-about-openclaw-and-moltbook/
Published: February 4, 2026 11:00
The much requested Zitron/Gerard crossover, at last â Hater Season: Openclaw with David Gerard! I went on Ed Zitronâs Better Offline podcast talking about OpenClaw, Moltbook and how AI will doom us all (when the bubble pop takes out the economy). Itâs onâŠ
AI makes Microsoftâs Q4 2025 numbers weird and bad
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/03/ai-makes-microsofts-q4-2025-numbers-weird-and-bad/
Published: February 3, 2026 20:27
Microsoft has released earnings for Q4 2025! And the investors and analysts are going âwhat the?â [Microsoft] CEO Satya Nadella talked up their AI buildout and âtokens per watt per dollar.â Specifically, he means tokens for GPT powering Copilot:âŠ
Musk wants to merge SpaceX with xAI, then take it public
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/02/musk-wants-to-merge-spacex-with-xai-then-take-it-public/
Published: February 2, 2026 21:34
Elon Musk wants to merge his rocket company, SpaceX, with his AI company, xAI. Then he wants to take the combined company public on the stock exchange. [Reuters] Musk previously combined X Corp â formerly Twitter â with xAI. That made no sense either â butâŠ
Pivot to AI pledge week finishing. Just a bit more needed!
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/01/31/pledge-week-finishing-just-a-bit-more/
Published: January 31, 2026 11:14
Pivot to AI runs on your support. This pledge week has gone well, Iâm that bit closer to being out of the red! If youâve been enjoying reading, listening to, and watching Pivot to AI, please send money to keep Pivot to AI running. The Patreon: sign up forâŠ
AI sends tourists to Tasmanian hot springs that donât exist
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/01/30/ai-sends-tourists-to-tasmanian-hot-springs-that-dont-exist/
Published: January 30, 2026 22:20
Weldborough is a village in Tasmania in Australia. Itâs got the Weld River, which you can go fossicking for sapphires in! In a wetsuit, âcos itâs freezing cold. Kristy Probert runs the Weldborough Hotel, the pub in Weldborough. She was surprised when, fromâŠ