<blockquote cite="https://nial.se/blog/less-human-ai-agents-please/"><p>AI agents are already too human. Not in the romantic sense, not because they love or fear or dream, but in the more banal and frustrating one. The current implementations keep showing their human origin again and again: lack of stringency, lack of patience, lack of focus. Faced with an awkward task, they drift towards the familiar. Faced with hard constraints, they start negotiating with reality.</p></blockquote> <p class="cite">&mdash; <a href="https://nial.se/blog/less-human-ai-agents-please/">Andreas Påhlsson-Notini</a>, Less human AI agents, please.</p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai-agents">ai-agents</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/coding-agents">coding-agents</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai">ai</a></p>

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<p><strong><a href="https://github.com/scosman/pelicans_riding_bicycles">scosman/pelicans_riding_bicycles</a></strong></p> I firmly approve of Steve Cosman's efforts to pollute the training set of pelicans riding bicycles.</p> <p><img alt="The heading says &quot;Pelican Riding a Bicycle #1 - the image is a bear on a snowboard" src="https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/pelican-poison-bear.jpg" /></p> <p>(To be fair, most of the examples <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/pelican-riding-a-bicycle/">I've published</a> count as poisoning too.) <p><small></small>Via <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47835735#47839493">Hacker News comment</a></small></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai">ai</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/generative-ai">generative-ai</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/llms">llms</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/training-data">training-data</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/pelican-riding-a-bicycle">pelican-riding-a-bicycle</a></p>

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ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet with a model of the company's bus-sized EUV machine. Bloomberg/Getty Images Internal docs obtained by Business Insider show which roles European chip giant ASML is proposing to cut. ASML announced plans to cut 1,700 jobs in January in an effort to slash bureaucracy. The company is planning a six-week summer recruitment freeze, the company confirmed to Business Insider. Europe's most valuable company is getting in on Big Tech's great managerial flattening. Internal documents obtained by Business Insider show how ASML — which plays a critical role in the global semiconductor industry — plans to cut a wide range of management roles. It comes after ASML said in January that it would cut 1,700 jobs and reshuffle its org chart to reduce management layers and focus on engineering, citing complaints from employees and customers that the company had become overly complex and inefficient. A presentation given to employees at a February all-hands, which has not previously been reported, outlined a range of management roles, including department manager, group leader, and chief product owner, that would cease to exist under the new proposed structure. Business Insider has viewed a copy of the presentation. ASML also told staff that it would reduce the number of architects — the senior technical roles responsible for coordinating projects — and give them more clearly defined responsibilities. The company is planning a six-week summer recruitment freeze and has reduced the number of US staff expected to be impacted by the layoffs from 300 to 185 roles, according to separate documents viewed by Business Insider. ASML employs about 44,000 people globally. In a letter to employees sent in February and seen by Business Insider, ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet said employees had expressed concerns about the "consequences" of the transformation. He said the company would aim to create around 1,400 new engineering roles as part of the reorganization. "We realize that we will continue to grow at a fast pace and will need people on the operations side to help us achieve that growth," Fouquet wrote. An ASML spokesperson told Business Insider the reorganization plans were not final and said the company has already reduced the impact of the reorganization in the US. "We are supporting our colleagues through this transformation in a responsible and thoughtful way, while also moving forward. We aim to reduce the period of uncertainty for people," the spokesperson said. Which roles does ASML want to cut? Here are all the roles ASML told employees would cease to exist under the new management structure: Department Manager Group Leader Team Leader Project Lead Chief Product Owner Product Owner Scrum Masters Main Delivery Owner Release Train Engineers Program Manager Project Cluster Manager Chip industry lynchpin ASML is the only company on the planet that makes extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV) machines at scale, which are critical for producing the chips that go inside smartphones, computers, and AI data centers. The AI boom has driven strong demand for ASML's machines, which can cost as much as $400 million and are bought by chipmakers including TSMC and Intel. The Dutch company reported booming sales and revenue last week. ASML is the latest company to join Big Tech's crusade against middle management. Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Meta have all cut management roles in the past few years to make teams leaner and more efficient. Under the proposed changes, the company's software quality engineering team would become part of its procurement division, per the document, and mechanical and electrical engineering would be integrated into ASML's manufacturing and customer support divisions. The ASML spokesperson said booming demand for the Dutch firm's lithography machines meant it expects to open "several hundreds" of new positions, with priority given to staff at risk of being laid off. They added that ASML's continued growth will see it open new roles in AI, manufacturing, and customer support. ASML is in negotiations with unions and the work council, an elected body of employee representatives, over the timing and structure of the layoffs. Over 1,000 ASML workers joined a walkout at the company's Dutch headquarters last month, and unions have called for a second walkout to take place during ASML's shareholder meeting on Wednesday. Do you work at ASML or have information to share? Contact this reporter via email at tcarter@businessinsider.com or Signal at tcarter.41. Read the original article on Business Insider

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Apple CEO Tim Cook wakes up early and starts his day by sifting through hundreds of emails. Andrew Burton / Getty Images As Apple CEO, Tim Cook's day starts before 5 a.m. and is full of hourslong meetings. Cook is a very private person, but has given some insights into his daily routine over the years. He's said he reads hundreds of emails a day and is the last one to leave the office. It takes a lot to run one of the world's largest companies, including a very early wake-up call. Apple CEO Tim Cook wakes up before dawn and starts his day by reading hundreds of feedback emails from customers before heading to the gym. Once he's at the office, he works long hours and leads famously lengthy meetings. His daily routine will likely change when he steps down as Apple's CEO. On Monday, Cook announced that John Ternus, Apple's senior vice president of hardware engineering, will become the company's new chief executive on September 1. Cook is known to be a private person, but over the years, he's shared glimpses into his daily schedule. Here's a look inside the typical day-to-day routine of Apple's outgoing chief executive. Cook typically wakes up between 4 and 5 a.m. Drew Angerer / Getty Images "I get up really early, I'm an early bird," Cook said on an episode of the "Dua Lipa: At Your Service" podcast that aired in November 2023, noting that he generally wakes between 4 a.m. and 5 a.m. He's said that at that early hour, he has the freedom to spend his time as he sees fit. "I can control the morning better than the evening and through the day. Things happen through the day that kind of blow you off course," he told The Australian Financial Review in 2021. "The morning is yours. Or should I say, the early morning is yours." On an episode of the podcast "Table Manners with Jessie and Lennie Ware" released in January 2025, he added that the morning is "the part of the day that I can control the most." "As the day starts to unfold, it becomes less predictable," he said. "So I love the part of the day that I can kind of block out the world and focus on a few critical things and just be silent for a while." Once he's up, he spends about an hour reading through his emails. Tim Cook, chief executive officer of Apple Inc., center, holds an iPhone 7 Plus while speaking with attendees during an event in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2016. Apple Inc. unveiled new iPhone models Wednesday, featuring a water-resistant design, upgraded camera system and faster processor, betting that after six annual iterations it can still make improvements enticing enough to lure buyers to their next upgrade. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images The first thing Cook does in the morning is check his iPhone, on which "he reads email, reviews overnight sales reports and studies countries where numbers are changing to keep his finger on the pulse of the business," The Wall Street Journal reported in 2024. "I spend my first hour doing email, and I'm pretty religious about doing this," he said on Dua Lipa's podcast. "I read emails from a lot of customers and employees, and the customers are telling me things that they love about us or things that they want changed about us. Employees are giving me ideas. But it's a way to stay grounded in terms of what the community is feeling, and I love it." Cook said on the "Table Manners" podcast that he gets "probably 500, 600" emails per day, although that number can be far higher on "days where there's something extraordinary going on." "I get notes both that are positive and some that are not so positive because people feel free to reach out and voice their opinion and I think this is great because it keeps my hand on the pulse of the company," Cook told WSJ in 2024. "I try to internalize it and ask myself, well is that accurate or not, and not just quickly put up a defensive shield and say, 'Why? What we've done is right.'" Employees, too, have experienced Cook's early morning emails. "Tim wakes up really early and is very well capable of expecting you to reply back before the sun comes up," one source told Business Insider in 2014. Before he can head to the office, the Apple CEO hits the gym several days a week. Justin Sullivan / Getty Images "I spend an hour in the gym, usually doing strength training, and I've got somebody to really push me to do things I don't want to do," he told Dua Lipa. "I do no work during that period of time at all, I never check my phone, I'm just totally focused on working out." The Wall Street Journal reported in 2014 that Cook didn't work out on Apple's campus, opting instead for a gym where he was less likely to run into his employees. Cook told Axios in 2018 that working out "keeps my stress at bay." After his workout and a shower, Cook gets a coffee. Drew Angerer/Getty Images Cook told the Journal in 2024 that he drinks "many cups" of coffee a day. He'll typically have some "protein-based" cereal like Kashi with unsweetened almond milk, he said on the "Table Manners" podcast. Once he's at work, Cook hosts marathon meetings. AP The Journal's 2014 article reported that Cook's weekly operations meetings could last five or six hours and that he was known to relentlessly question employees. "'Talk about your numbers. Put your spreadsheet up,' he'd say as he nursed a Mountain Dew," the Journal wrote. Cook has since said he's a big fan of Diet Mountain Dew, though Apple's campus doesn't stock it. He also has no problem sitting in silence until he gets a suitable answer. As a result, the Journal said, employees had learned to be prepared, cramming for the meetings as if they were tests. For lunch, he keeps it pretty simple at the Apple cafeteria. Justin Sullivan / Getty Images The Journal reported in 2014 that, apart from the energy bars he snacked on throughout the day, he stuck to meals such as chicken and rice for lunch. Cook has been known to eat his lunch in the cafeteria, Caffè Macs, with employees, unlike his predecessor Steve Jobs, who would typically eat with then-design chief Jony Ive. "I have lunch in Caffè Macs and I take a dinner home from Caffè Macs during the week," he said on the "Table Manners" podcast. "I typically go for the fish." Cook works long days at the office. Justin Sullivan / Getty Images "I'll divide the day in terms of spending time with product teams or spending time with marketing teams or spending time with the executive team, and we're either handling issues of the day or hopefully our balance is more on working on future stuff, and thinking about what's next," he said on Dua Lipa's podcast. When he was COO, he was known for being one of the first people in the office and one of the last people to leave. After-hours, Cook's life is more of a mystery. Kevin Dietsch We don't know much about how Cook spends his weekends and evenings, though he's said he's outdoorsy and enjoys hiking, rock climbing, and cycling. He usually goes to national parks on vacation, he said on the "Table Manners" podcast.  He has also vacationed at the Canyon Ranch resort in Arizona, where guests spotted him keeping to himself, often dining alone and reading on his iPad, Fortune's 2012 profile of Cook said. He went caving in Slovenia in the summer of 2024. He's also talked about using the Vision Pro when at home to watch "Ted Lasso" and other TV shows while stretched out on the couch. Áine Cain contributed to an earlier version of this story. Read the original article on Business Insider

Snowflake is expanding its Snowflake Intelligence and Cortex Code offerings in the hope of bringing users deploying and developing artificial intelligence inside the Snowflake portfolio. Snowflake Intelligence is framed as a tool for generalised business users, while Cortex Code is destined for developers and technical teams’ desks. A press release from the company lists additional […] The post Snowflake expands its technical and mainstream AI platforms appeared first on AI News.