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I've been feeling more and more lost. Had plans to teach my 10yr python, maybe something fun with games or robotics. But then I look around and I see others doing 100x more advanced things using AI.

Yesterday I tried google ai studio. 1hr later I had an app on my phone. Its hard to justify the motivation of learning all the foundations and hard stuff, when it's so easy to get to the end result using AI.

I've been avoiding showing them that image generation is a real thing, they love to draw and do arts. I fear that that instant gratification will just hook them to do more and more AI images and loose their interest in actual drawing and painting. On the other hand, prompt engineering is a thing, even for image gen.

No question that learning to leverage AI is a skill. But I don't even know how to navigate that when I think about the kind of future my kids will face.

Honestly, sometimes I feel it's just wiser to put your time and effort into things AI is very far to replace us. I'm always swinging from "we need to learn tech" to "we can't beat it, let's put our focus and energy into something else". (note: this is also because my kids are not very tech-oriented, I understand this would be totally different if I had geeks in the house that love computer stuff - like I was!)

How are you all navigating this, especially those of you with kids?

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Article URL: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Shuji-Morisaki-2/publication/266855911_Experimental_Evaluation_of_Effect_of_Specifying_a_Focused_Defect_Type_in_Software_Inspection/links/5476e1110cf29afed6142f07/Experimental-Evaluation-of-Effect-of-Specifying-a-Focused-Defect-Type-in-Software-Inspection.pdf

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Article URL: https://mljar.com/blog/why-ipynb-is-perfect-format-for-saving-ai-data-analysis-conversations/

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I had ~4 hours on a flight home yesterday so had fun building my first-ever macOS menubar utility (took me longer to figure out how to build a pretty DMG folder). Free to grab from the link or just fork the repo and have fun.

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An open-source framework for analyzing EV battery data: CAN bus emulation, anomaly detection (Isolation Forest), SOH prediction (LSTM), and a web dashboard. Supports Tesla Model S/X data formats.

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Article URL: https://github.com/office233/Nexuscortex

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Article URL: https://lithub.com/the-digital-economy-is-destroying-our-lives-and-our-planet-and-ai-is-only-going-to-make-it-worse/

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Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/llms-believe-false-statements-even-after-explicit-warnings-that-theyre-false/

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Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/nasa-details-its-plan-to-build-a-lunar-base-at-the-moons-south-pole/

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Browser based OpenTTD with full datacenter industries, fiber & power lines are transport modes, Towns & Office Parks consume Compute.

uses Vanila OpenTTD with NewGRFs game scripts, along with assets from FIRs and OpenGFX.

you can save game in the browser, also doesn't require account to play.

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