AI is Changing Healthcare and The AI Tools that Software Developers Are Using

A smattering of AI news and tools and other nonsense.

Morning y’all!

I’ve got a bunch of tools to check out as well as links to interesting articles that captured my attention for more than a few minutes!

To start, I actually upgraded my Claude account to “Pro” for $20 per month:

I’ve been happy with the outcomes and consequently I believe it’s creating more than $20 of value per month — worth the subscription. I mean, this thing is starting to get really clever:

Have you started paying for any new apps recently? I’d love to know in the comments.

Below are some interesting graphs and charts from software professionals in light of AI and using it for work (it’s a paywall so I’m just posting some of the images):

These graphs are interesting to me as I try to calibrate my own use of tooling for software engineering work.

As much as I hate marketing, it’s an important motion for companies to use. Blaze uses AI and automation to scan millions of online signals to help companies connect with customers.

The energy department has an AI strategy: The DOE envisions its role as helping its scientists and the broader scientific community create trustworthy AI models to yield breakthroughs in a variety of fields, including clean energy technologies.

Ben Evans shares his thoughts on the growing and waning interest of AI and how he thinks this will play out long-term:

Of course, the crazy dreams of the Dotcom bubble really did happen, and the AI maximalists might be right - it may be that LLMs can do the whole thing. LLMs may be able to swallow most or all of existing software, and they may be able to automate vast new classes of task that were never in software before, just by themselves and with whole new layers of product, company and enterprise sales built around them. This might be the first S-Curve in tech history that turns out to be a J-Curve. But not this year.

But not this year? Certainly. Things have just gotten started.

In a recent interview, Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott expressed confidence that large language model "scaling laws" will continue to drive AI progress, countering skepticism about diminishing returns.

The growth of B2B scribes is now a thing. Or it’s just like what we’ve doing for ages.

Honestly, I just like the name, domain, and landing page of this tool. I don’t know if it’s actually good so I’m just being honest here. 😅

Create a wikipedia like interface in your codebase.

A project management tool that uses *gasp* AI to help you out.

I just thought this as fun. Legos!

Venture capital firm Coatue had its annual presentation on the state of venture tech investing, and especially AI, as you might imagine:

And then there’s more interesting stories like this:

Doctors using AI to help fight insurance denials of treatments is weird, bruh.

On the topic of medicine, AI-driven behavior could (will?) change healthcare:

With AI-driven personalized behavior change, we have the chance to finally reverse the trend lines on chronic diseases. Achieving this vision requires collaboration. Policymakers need to create a regulatory environment that fosters AI innovation while safeguarding privacy. Health care providers need to integrate AI into their practices while ensuring that these tools meet rigorous standards for safety and efficacy. And individuals need to be fully empowered through AI coaching to better manage their daily health, with assurances that these technologies are reliable and that their personal health data will be handled responsibly. This collective effort, with robust privacy and security safeguards, can transform health care, benefiting millions of people around the world.

Nice.

Finally, Andrew Ng, one of the pioneers of machine learning, has issues with California’s proposed bill to regulate LLMs. Good.

They just raised $22m in venture capital. The concept sounds enticing.

OpenAI founding member and former Tesla Director of AI Andrej Karpathy just announced the launch of Eureka Labs, a new AI-integrated education platform — coming just months after his departure from OpenAI.

Elementor AI is a website builder for WordPress.

Have a great humpday folks! Stay well and productive!

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— Summer