😺Is OpenAI about to break out or go broke?

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We try to find a few good memes every week to share with you on Mondays, but this one could NOT wait six more days…

This is of course referring to Monday’s news about ChatGPT 4.1, the absolutely outrageously titled name for OpenAI’s new “Quasar model” that got previewed early last week. Why not just keep the codenames, fam? Quasar is a 1000x better name!

Now, the Verge is reporting OpenAI is making its own social network. It’s still early days (that’s Love Island lingo for “prototype stage”), but it’ll work like this: image generator + social feed. That’s in addition to the new image library it just rolled out.

Kinda makes sense to capitalize on ChatGPT’s most viral feature, since other platforms run by its competitors are currently sucking up all the engagement from that.

Meanwhile, Google just made its own viral video tool, Veo 2, available in Gemini. Google never succeeded in launching its own social network—maybe now’s the time! Just have Gemini 2.5 vibe code something up, y’all!

Think about it: Make Myspace 2.0, but instead of everyone having to learn how to code to customize their page, just build a vibe coder into the page manager so ppl can spin up their own custom pages. This will work people. Don’t make us do it for you.

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When “vibe-coding” goes wrong… or, a parable in why you shouldn’t “vibe” your entire company.

Cursor, an AI-powered coding tool that many developers love-to-hate, faceplanted spectacularly yesterday when its own AI support bot went off-script and fabricated a company policy, leading to a complete user revolt.

Here’s the short version:

1. A bug locked users out when switching devices.
2. Instead of human help, Cursor’s AI support bot confidently told users this was a new policy (it wasn’t).
3. No human checked the replies.
4. The fake news spread, devs canceled subscriptions en masse.
5. A Reddit thread about it got mysteriously nuked, fueling suspicion.

The reality? Just a bug plus a bot hallucination doing maximum damage.

Hacker News’ reactions were gold, capturing the irony of an AI company getting burned by its own AI (“These bros are getting high on their own supply”), the “hate-use” relationship with buggy-but-useful tools (like Cursor), and suspicion of an AI cover-up.

But this comment summed up the situation perfectly:

"AI is not a tool, but a tiny Kafkaesque bureaucracy inside your codebase. Does it work today? Yes! Why does it work? Who can say! Will it work tomorrow? Fingers crossed!”

Why it matters: This is what we’d call “vibe-companying”—blindly trusting AI with critical functions without human oversight.

Think about it like this: this was JUST a startup. If more, larger companies continue to lay off entire departments, replaced by AI, these already byzantine companies will become increasingly more opaque, unaccountable systems where no one, human or AI, fully understands what’s happening or who's responsible.

Our take? Kafka dude has it right. We need to pay attention to WHAT we’re automating. Because automating more bureaucracy at scale with agents we increasingly don’t understand or don’t double check can potentially make companies less intelligent and harder to fix when things inevitably go wrong.

Cursor's cofounder apologized, explained the bug, and promised clearer AI labeling. But this warning is clear enough: automating without understanding or oversight is a recipe for disaster. Keep humans in the loop, or risk your AI turning your company into a zombie tornado. What’s a zombie tornado? We’re so glad you asked!

P.S: Are you a developer interested in Cursor alternatives? Some users mentioned switching to tools like Windsurf, Cline, or Zed.

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Prompt Tip of the Day

A Redditor just shared OpenAI’s latest Prompt Guide for GPT 4.1 and it goes like this:

1. Role: Define what the AI is (“You are a helpful research assistant”).
2. Instructions: Set behavior and tone (“Respond concisely, avoid speculation”).
3. Sub-Instructions: Add focused control sections (prohibited topics, phrases).
4. Reasoning: Encourage structured thinking (“Think step-by-step”).
5. Format: Specify response structure (“Summary: [1-2 lines], Key Points: [bullets]”).
6. Examples: Show sample inputs/outputs.
7. Final: Reinforce key points at the end.

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Around the Horn.

OpenAI’s new image library to organize all your fancy cats!

• Google reportedly nerfed Gemini 2.5 Pro's tool calling function, rendering it unable to execute tool calls. Users speculate this was due to cost concerns, though the model continues to excel at UI design and data processing tasks.
• DeepSeek announced plans to open-source parts of its inference engine by porting optimizations to popular frameworks like vLLM, llama.cpp, and kobold, rather than releasing the full stack. The company aims to enhance the open-source AI ecosystem despite challenges like codebase divergence.
• Perplexity's Sonar-Reasoning-Pro-High model tied with Gemini-2.5-Pro-Grounding for first place in LM Arena's Search Arena, scoring 1136 and 1142 respectively. According to Perplexity, their models outperformed by leveraging 2-3x more search sources.
• Samsung announced a partnership with Google to power its Ballie home robot with Google's Gemini and Samsung's own multimodal AI models.
• NVIDIA and Stanford researchers unveiled a new AI technique to generate consistent, minute-long cartoons.

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Mid-Week Wisdom

We love writing our Intelligent Insights Friday section…and tbh, we wish we could run the section every day (instead of just once a week). So we’re going to trial “mid-week wisdom.” If you like getting Intelligent Insights 2x a week, let us know in the feedback!

• Tech recruiters are reporting a hiring crisis as candidates use AI tools like Interview Coder to fake technical skills, forcing companies to revive in-person interviews despite the $2K in travel costs to fly someone out (which could lead to more local hires).
• LinkedIn is leading a major organizational shift where product teams are restructured around products rather than roles, encouraging “full-stack builders” who use AI to work beyond their traditional job descriptions—designers now code, engineers design, and everyone focuses on business impact regardless of title. This is the future, y’all.
• Apparently Cursor (AI coding tool) has an AI support bot that went rogue and accidentally sparked a user rebellion by hallucinating a fake policy. When multiple users got kicked off the platform trying to use it on multiple devices, they naturally contacted support. Instead of finding a real human, they reached an AI support bot that confidently invented a new “session lockout policy” claiming this behavior was intentional. In reality, there was no new policy at all—just a backend session bug combined with an AI hallucination that did more damage than the original technical issue

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