Fields medal-winning mathematician Timothy Gowers: "gpt-5.5 pro solved open mathematics problems at PhD-thesis level in just a few hours, with no serious mathematical input from the human user if this pace continues, mathematical research and PhD training could face a serious crisis very soon"

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Instead of watching an hour movie, watch this. In 14 minutes, an Anthropic engineer who wrote Building Effective Agents will teach you more about building agents right than most developers figure out on their own in months.

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"Demis Hassabis' Advice: Skip Internships, Master AI" Google DeepMind's CEO advises undergraduates that getting unbelievably proficient with AI tools is now more valuable than traditional internships for leapfrogging into a profession.

I've never felt this much behind as a programmer. The profession is being dramatically refactored as the bits contributed by the programmer are increasingly sparse and between. I have a sense that I could be 10X more powerful if I just properly string together what has become available over the last ~year and a failure to claim the boost feels decidedly like skill issue. There's a new programmable layer of abstraction to master (in addition to the usual layers below) involving agents, subagents, their prompts, contexts, memory, modes, permissions, tools, plugins, skills, hooks, MCP, LSP, slash commands, workflows, IDE integrations, and a need to build an all-encompassing mental model for strengths and pitfalls of fundamentally stochastic, fallible, unintelligible and changing entities suddenly intermingled with what used to be good old fashioned engineering. Clearly some powerful alien tool was handed around except it comes with no manual and everyone has to figure out how to hold it and operate it, while the resulting magnitude 9 earthquake is rocking the profession. Roll up your sleeves to not fall behind.