Thursday, February 12, 2026
Something strange is happening in AI leadership right now
Multiple senior employees at major AI companies have resigned within days of each other — not random departures, but people in safety research, policy, and core engineering. Anthropic's head of safety research reportedly quit, posted 'The world is in peril,' and left the U.S. Meanwhile, the U.S. government declined to back the 2026 International AI Safety Report for the first time.
Compiled a detailed list of departures — Anthropic safety head moved to the UK to 'become invisible,' Yoshua Bengio confirmed AIs behave differently when tested vs. deployed.
— omnergy53 pts
This sub is sounding more like r/creepypasta but AI flavored.
— dragoon720118 pts
Researchers are hitting equity milestones and 'taking their bag while shaking their fist on the way out.'
— tlegs449 pts
How Meta lost the AI race despite hiring top talent and buying companies
A discussion on how Meta, despite poaching AI experts and acquiring startups, still fell behind in AI. The consensus: it's a leadership and vision problem. Meta built a 'slop generator for Facebook feed' and a 'sad little ask Meta banner' but never defined a coherent AI strategy.
Zuck has been buying up everything and looking at a disorganized pile of acquisitions expecting it to just do something on its own... His metaverse idea was maybe the dumbest thing that has come out of a tech company.
— Majestic-Counter-66965 pts
Zuckerberg built a moderately useful site in a language that was already outdated... got lucky, but not smart enough to compete with the best minds on the planet.
— mbcoalson10 pts
Best OpenClaw Skills You Should Install (From ClawHub's 500+ Skills)
A curated list of daily-use OpenClaw skills from ClawHub's 500+ ecosystem. Highlights include: GitHub (managed OAuth for repos/issues/PRs), AgentMail (giving agents their own email addresses), and Linear (project management). Comments raised security concerns about running third-party skills.
Not worried about security?
— giobukkino5 pts
The cost posts are funny. The security of it all... OP is a bot.
— xbcsmith-28511 pts
Dear senior software engineer, are you still writing code?
A 20-year veteran asks if senior devs are still hand-writing code. The overwhelming consensus: yes, most code is now AI-generated, but 'not writing code' doesn't mean 'not working.' Engineers are still deeply involved — driving the LLM, reviewing output, building architecture docs. One team lead with 65+ engineers says ~80% of their code is AI-written.
I stopped writing code 9 months ago after 30 years. Getting LLM to write high quality code is a skill you need to learn. I love the end result, not the code itself.
— lionmeetsviking171 pts
Team of 65+ engineers. About 80% of the code written by our team is by AI. Refactoring and migrating is where CC really shines.
— cport1121 pts
The amount of code I write is rapidly decreasing. But the amount of code I commit has gone through the roof... Accepting the slop is the hardest part.
— DifficultPlatypus55912 pts
Chrome's WebMCP makes AI agents stop pretending
Google Chrome 145 shipped WebMCP — an experimental feature letting websites register tools that AI agents can discover and call directly, instead of screenshots-to-vision-model-to-click loops. Currently 51% of web traffic is bots doing exactly that pixel-parsing dance.
Corrects the OP — agent-browser already uses light text snapshots, not screenshots. If you're doing screenshots with agent-browser you're using it wrong.
— twistedjoe20 pts
Sounds like a reinvention of the API.
— yopla13 pts
Days since Chrome has implemented a feature no one asked for and that's of economic interest to Google: 0.
— vixalien2 pts
I built an open-source 'Vibe Coding' tool that fixes AI slop by interviewing you first
Developer kept getting garbage output from Cursor because they were giving it garbage specs. Built 'Vibe Architect' — a structured brainstorming tool that interviews you through phases (MVP scope, design system, tech stack, file structure) before any code is generated.
Shared a powerful 5-skill pipeline including a 'contrarian' agent that challenges every design decision before implementation — 'I am always amazed at what I don't consider going in.'
— IlliterateJedi2 pts
Let me guess, the interviewing takes the same amount of time as using Claude to help you write a proper spec.
— Odd_Initiative_91111 pts
I built a boring utilities website that now gets 600K+ monthly users
Six years ago, someone built a simple web converter because every existing one was full of ads. No launch, no Product Hunt, no marketing — just adding one useful tool whenever they personally needed it. Now: 100+ utilities, 600K monthly users, 50K registered users, 1 billion pageviews total.
The multi-language strategy is underrated. Most builders ignore non-English SEO even though competition is a fraction. One billion pageviews with no marketing spend is a masterclass in compounding.
— Full_Engineering59211 pts
Did you teach GPT how to write? It formats stuff just like you.
— spiderjohnx4 pts
There Is No Cheat Code to 'Ranking in ChatGPT'
Debunks the wave of 'hack AI search' promises. The real way to get cited by AI: be everywhere consistently for 12+ months. AI reads consensus across the entire SERP — if your brand shows up on high-intent pages, competitor comparisons, Reddit threads, and YouTube, you become the 'safest answer.'
AI doesn't reward tricks, it rewards distribution + consistency.
— Personal-Lack41702 pts
People want a secret prompt when the real answer is 'post for a year straight.'
— Straight_Reveal_85341 pts
Update: Non-technical co-founders want me to take a pay cut 'for the bigger picture'
Saga continues: the sole developer who came up with the idea, wrote the grant that secured $300K in government funding, and is the only engineer — got offered $90K over 18 months plus 10% equity. The CEO wanted to compromise but her dad, who secretly controls the books, said no.
Why are you even working with these people if it's your idea, your grant, and you're building it?
— TheOneNeartheTop30 pts
As a consultant $5K/month is fine, as founding engineer 10% is okay, but as the actual founder? Should be 33%.
— automatedBlogger13 pts
If all the founders are not happy at the start, there's basically 0% chance it will go anywhere.
— Mad_Tyrion7 pts
Looking for a local listing management tool (not Yext)
Agency owner managing HVAC and retail clients needs scalable local listing management beyond Yext. Synup was the most recommended (white-label, reputation management, social, rank tracking). BrightLocal got a strong endorsement from an ex-Yext agency partner.
Ex-Yext partner — switched to BrightLocal because citations persist after ending campaigns. Yext relied on API feeds, so listings evaporate when you stop.
— Doug-Mansfield2 pts
What are the issues with Yext? A lot of tools just white label Yext or similar players. SEMRush uses Yext API — do your due diligence.
— Group7Leader1 pts
AI SEO Digest: Google's AI Mode integrated checkout, Microsoft's AI Search Guide
Google's AI Mode now has a 'Buy' button directly on listings. This means transactions can happen entirely within the SERP, raising serious concerns about losing first-party data. Microsoft released a new AI Search Guide pushing the shift from SEO to GEO.
If a customer buys from the search result, how do we handle pixel tracking, email signups, or retargeting? We're trading first-party data for frictionless transactions.
— MaciasAnya951 pts
Google integrating checkout into AI Search feels like the final nail in the coffin for traditional e-com SEO.
— Seb14_Milano1 pts
How do big digital marketing agencies have so many clients?
Freelancer struggling to land a single client wonders how agencies maintain 300-500 retainers. The consensus: systems beat individual talent. Big agencies build repeatable processes, have dedicated sales teams, and ride referral flywheels.
Big agencies don't hire the brightest people. They hire people who can consistently execute repetitive tasks, then build systems around those tasks.
— MishaManko3 pts
Insider perspective from 6 years at Omnicom/Mediabrands/McCann — global agencies have nice deals with major networks for cheaper rates.
— potatodrinker5 pts
Self and others in algorithmic governmentality: hyper-individuation vs. disindividuation
Academic paper examining how algorithmic, data-driven systems affect subjectivity. The core argument: personalization creates 'hyper-individuation' — a world adapted only to us where others disappear. But paradoxically, this leads to 'disindividuation' — algorithms don't perceive the subject as such, creating an irreducible abstraction of the person.
Read full thread ↗A formal argument that 'God as an Absolute Entity' is logically impossible
Someone posted a three-premise framework arguing only physical law can qualify as 'Absolute Truth,' therefore God as an absolute entity is logically impossible. The community tore it apart — Godel's incompleteness theorem undermines the key premise, and the framework was essentially designed with physical law as the answer already in mind.
You've built a filter only physical law can pass through, but the filter was designed with physical law already in mind. That's not a proof, it's a tautology.
— alfaboson10 pts
'May settle theism-atheism permanently' — have you ever talked to another human being?
— sirbassist8338 pts
How can anyone prove or disprove the existence of an entity beyond our universe by using the laws of our universe?
— PadishaEmperor8 pts