Rami's Readings #139 - AI Agents Run Amok

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.

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.

Why I’m not worried about AI job loss Two days ago, someone named Matt Shumer posted an essay on Twitter with the title “Something Big Is Happening.” Almost immediately, his essay went extremely viral. As of this writing, it’s been viewed about 100 million times and counting; and it’s been shared by such strikingly different figures as the c… David Oks · 2 months ago · 380 likes · 51 comments · David Oks Why I’m not worried about AI job loss

🔀 Other Reads

Signing off from Redmond, WA.