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Reddit wants to become "a go-to search engine" for users; its core search has 70M weekly active unique users and AI-powered Reddit Answers has 6M weekly users (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/717095/reddit-q2-2025-earnings-search-engi…

Reddit wants to be a search engine now
Reddit is putting effort into making its platform a “go-to search engine,” CEO Steve Huffman says in a note to investors.

Reddit wants to become "a go-to search engine" for users; its core search has 70M weekly active unique users and AI-powered Reddit Answers has 6M weekly users (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/717095/reddit-q2-2025-earnings-search-engi…

Reddit wants to be a search engine now
Reddit is putting effort into making its platform a “go-to search engine,” CEO Steve Huffman says in a note to investors.

Should we teach vibe coding? Here's why not.
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To address the bigger question I started with ("should we teach AI-"assisted" coding?"), my answer is: "No, except enough to show students directly what its pitfalls are." We have little enough time as it is to cover the core knowledge that they'll need, which has become more urgent now that they're going to be expected to clean up AI bugs and they'll have less time to develop an understanding of the problems they're supposed to be solving. The skill of prompt engineering & other skills of working with AI are relatively easy to pick up on your own, given a decent not-even-mathematical understanding of how a neutral network works, which is something we should be giving to all students, not just our majors.
Reasonable learning objectives for CS majors might include explaining what types of bugs an AI "assistant" is most likely to introduce, explaining the difference between software engineering and writing code, explaining why using an AI "assistant" is likely to violate open-source licenses, listing at lest three independent ethical objections to contemporary LLMs and explaining the evidence for/reasoning behind them, explaining why we should expect AI "assistants" to be better at generating code from scratch than at fixing bugs in existing code (and why they'll confidently "claim" to have fixed problems they haven't), and even fixing bugs in AI generated code (without AI "assistance").
If we lived in a world where the underlying environmental, labor, and data commons issues with AI weren't as bad, or if we could find and use systems that effectively mitigate these issues (there's lots of piecemeal progress on several of these) then we should probably start teaching an elective on coding with an assistant to students who have mastered programming basics, but such a class should probably spend a good chunk of time on non-assisted debugging.
#AI #LLMs #VibeCoding

CO₂-Emissionen von Containerschiffen sind gestiegen
Eine Analysefirma vermutet: Das liegt an den weiten Umwegen, die die Handelsschiffe fahren müssen. Denn im Roten Meer drohen Angriffe der Huthi-Miliz.
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Sources: Apple plans an AI search tool, World Knowledge Answers, for spring 2026 as part of a Siri revamp; Apple and Google plan to test a Google model for Siri (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Alarmstufe Rot für Sharepoint-Administratoren! 🚨 Microsoft hat die ersten Patches für die kritische Sicherheitslücke "ToolShell" veröffentlicht, die seit einigen Tagen für Unruhe in der IT-Sicherheitsbranche sorgt.
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-1049…

Perplexity launches Search API, giving developers direct access to the same web index that powers the startup's answer engine (Michael Nuñez/Venturebeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/perplexity-launches-massive-search-api-to-take-on-googles-do…