Rami's Readings #139 - AI Agents Run Amok
The latest on AI, LLMs, AI Agents Run Amok, Moltbook, zvec, Hotel Bakery, AI Job Loss, and more.
Welcome to Rami’s Readings #139 - a weekly digest of interesting articles, papers, videos, and X threads from my various sources across the Internet. Expect a list of reads covering AI, technology, business, culture, fashion, travel, and more. Learn about what I do at ramisayar.com/about.
👋🏼 Welcome New Subscribers
Hello! A hearty thank you for subscribing to Rami's Readings! There are quite a few new subscribers this week, thanks to recommendations from The AI Ethics Brief, Product Byte, and The VC Corner. I am thrilled to have you on board! In this newsletter, I curate the best papers, tweets, and articles I have read during the week focusing on LLMs, AI, economics, business, and technology news. You can learn more about me on my website.
🤖 AI Reads
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me & Follow Up & More
Notes: The most important story of the week. Seriously.
Moltbook Was Peak AI Theater
Notes: Sigh.
The reality is much more mundane.
Agyn: A Multi-Agent System for Team-Based Autonomous Software Engineering
Notes: From a team at MILA (Montréal).
LLaDA2.1: Speeding Up Text Diffusion via Token Editing
Notes: From the Ant Group. Impressive work!
Beyond RAG for Agent Memory: Retrieval by Decoupling and Aggregation
Notes: Interesting paper from King College London.
alibaba / zvec: A Lightweight In-Process Vector Database
Notes: Benchmarks.
My AI Adoption Journey
Notes: From the famous Mitchell Hashimoto.
💼 Business Reads
Why the Hotel Bakery Is Becoming as Popular as the Hotel Bar
Notes: I am 100% all-in on this trend. Food has been a primary motivator for our choice of travel destinations. Glad we’re not the only ones.
Wealth Manager Stocks Sink as Traders Flee Next AI Casualty
Notes: Tech PE is dead.
🔀 Other Reads
Signing off from Redmond, WA.