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The headline that stands out today comes from the sentiment data: AI is becoming increasingly unpopular. Despite billions in investment and near-constant media coverage, public opinion appears to be souring, suggesting the gap between industry enthusiasm and everyday experience is wider than many companies would like to admit.
Shifting from perception to practice, a developer writing for the Elicited blog has been experimenting with OpenAI's Codex to automate testing for a voice-first calendar application. It's a thoughtful look at what it actually takes to teach an AI agent to verify software that itself relies on AI, and the trade-offs involved are more nuanced than the setup might suggest.
And rounding out today's stories, a piece on Hacker News is asking a genuinely warm question: what were your favorite classic iPod games? It's a small reminder that for all the noise around what's next, the devices and experiences that shaped how people first fell in love with personal technology still carry real weight.
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