2025 LLM Year in Review | karpathy — Andrej Karpathy has as impressive a track record as any in the AI world, and his blog posts are always worth reading, short on hype and long on substance. This year in review is no different, and surfaces legitimately interesting trends. The ones that caught my eye in particular are the declining utility of benchmarks, the changing nature of interaction with AI, and the idea of ephemeral code. Karpathy’s observations give a much better idea of how AI might impact the world than most of the AI “experts” out there. (Andrej Karpathy)

AI Completely Failing to Boost Productivity, Says Top Analyst — Case in point, for all the “AI changes everything” noise, its impact in productivity statistics is non-existent. By extension, the impact on jobs seems limited as well. That doesn’t necessarily mean AI has no impact at all: in the 1980s, the introduction of the personal computer was not visible in the productivity statistics either. (Futurism)

Wikipedia at 25: What the web can be — In stark contrast to the extractive and monopolising force that is AI stands Wikipedia, which celebrated its 25th birthday recently. Derided as a utopian project in the beginning, then shunned by academic institutions and others for fear that its information was unreliable, today the site stands out as one of the most authoritative and most visited on the web. Despite its success, it’s also under assault like never before, with an ever more polarised society affecting its content, and AI its economics. This cherished resource should be maintained, which is why I donate every month, and I encourage you to do the same. (Anil Dash)