Younger consumers are showing a meaningful preference for AI-driven answers over conventional search results, according to survey findings published by Vox Media. The shift matters because direct answers can change how people discover information, assess sources, and move from a question to a decision. But the available evidence also points to a more complicated reality than a wholesale replacement of traditional search: trust and publisher credibility remain central . Vox Media's survey, conducted with Two Cents Insights among 1,500 U.S. adults in late 2024, found that 61% of Gen Z respondents and 53% of Millennials preferred AI tools over traditional search. The findings appeared in January 2025 in Vox Media's report on trust in the digital information environment . The distinction between the two figures is important. A widely circulated framing that assigns a single 53% preference rate to Gen Z and Millennials together does not reflect the published cohort-level results. Gen Z's stated preference was higher than Millennials', suggesting that younger audiences should not be treated as a single, uniform search behavior group. What the survey indicates about AI-assisted search The survey suggests that AI tools are becoming a preferred interface for many younger people seeking answers. Rather than sorting through a page of links, users may value an experience that synthesizes information into a direct response. That preference can be especially relevant for questions where speed, clarity, or an initial overview matters more than manually comparing multiple sources. Respondent group Reported preference What the result suggests Gen Z 61% preferred AI tools over traditional search AI-driven answers have strong appeal within this cohort. Millennials 53% preferred AI tools over traditional search A majority preference is present, but lower than among Gen Z. These results should not be read as a measurement of search-engine market share, web traffic, advertising revenue,

Modern web development has become incredibly powerful. But also increasingly complicated. Many projects begin by installing hundreds of megabytes of dependencies before writing a single page. Frameworks, bundlers, routers, templating systems, CSS tooling, and runtime libraries all solve important problems, but they also introduce additional complexity. I wanted something different. I wanted to build websites that start with plain HTML, while still providing the features developers expect today: Reusable components Markdown support TypeScript CSS and JavaScript bundling Internationalization (i18n) Content collections RSS/Atom feeds Sitemap generation Fast development builds That idea became Rino.js. What is Rino.js? Rino.js is an HTML-first website compiler for building static websites, documentation, blogs, portfolios, company websites, and other content driven projects. Instead of introducing a custom templating language or requiring a frontend framework, Rino.js treats HTML as the primary language. Pages remain valid HTML while additional functionality is added through a small set of build-time conventions. The goal is simple: Write HTML. Generate optimized static websites. Why HTML First? HTML has existed for decades, yet modern web development often treats it as something generated by another language. Rino.js takes the opposite approach. Instead of writing components in JSX or another template language, components are simply HTML files. <component rino-import= "header" ></component> That's all it takes. The compiler replaces the component during the build, producing plain static HTML with no runtime dependency. Starting Rino.js Rino.js has a command that is designed to provide default project. npm create rino@latest Project Shape A Rino.js project usually looks like this: my-site/ rino-config.js dev.js generate.js feed.js sitemap.js backoffice.js pages/ index.html about.html components/ header.html footer.html public/ images/ photo.webp scripts/ export/ app.js

What Is Ant Design? Ant Design (antd) is a React UI library built by Alibaba's Ant Group. It's the most starred React component library on GitHub from China, with over 90k stars — yet surprisingly undercovered in the English-speaking developer community. If you've used Material UI or Chakra UI, Ant Design is the Chinese equivalent, but with its own design philosophy: consistent, predictable, and packed with enterprise-grade components out of the box. Fun fact: Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu, and most Chinese tech companies use Ant Design in production. It powers dashboards that serve hundreds of millions of users. Why Ant Design Over MUI? Feature Ant Design Material UI Components 60+ 50+ Table (Pro) Built-in sorting, filtering, pagination, row selection Requires manual wiring Form validation Declarative, built-in Requires react-hook-form or Formik Tree-shaking Supported (v5) Supported Bundle size (min) ~200KB gzipped ~140KB gzipped Documentation Chinese-first, English translations available English-first Design system Ant Design System (custom) Material Design (Google) Ant Design wins on out-of-the-box productivity — especially for data-heavy apps like admin panels and dashboards. MUI wins on bundle size and first-party English docs. Installation npm install antd @ant-design/icons No peer dependencies beyond React 16+. Your First Ant Design Component import React from " react " ; import { Button , Space } from " antd " ; import { SearchOutlined , DownloadOutlined } from " @ant-design/icons " ; export default function App () { return ( < Space > < Button type = "primary" icon = { < SearchOutlined /> } > Search </ Button > < Button icon = { < DownloadOutlined /> } > Download </ Button > < Button type = "dashed" > Dashed </ Button > < Button type = "link" > Link </ Button > </ Space > ); } That's it. Five button variants with zero CSS. Building a Data Table in 5 Minutes import React , { useState , useMemo } from " react " ; import { Table , Input } from " antd " ; const data

Every recorded mobile test I have ever inherited died the same way: someone moved a button. The recording said "tap at (340, 712)". The redesign moved that button up by one row, and the test kept tapping — now on empty space, or whatever happened to land there instead. It didn't fail right away. Three sprints later, it started failing in confusing ways, and by then nobody trusted the suite anymore. The fix isn't a better recorder. It's recording a different thing: not where you tapped, but what you tapped. That needs an element tree, and for a while we didn't have one. tapflow is an open-source, self-hosted tool that streams iOS simulators and Android emulators into a browser, so a whole team can test builds without installing anything. Until now, everything it moved was pixels in one direction and taps in the other. This post is about getting an element tree out of a simulator with no window, on both platforms. What we do with that tree — replaying flows that survive a redesign — is the next post in this series. The automation axis this feeds — the flow runner and the MCP server — is experimental . The manual browser QA path is the mature one. The constraint: no WebDriverAgent, and no simulator window tapflow already injects touches into the iOS simulator without WebDriverAgent — it loads CoreSimulator.framework and pushes HID events through SimDeviceLegacyHIDClient (that story is ep.1 ). Streaming reads the framebuffer IOSurface directly. Neither path needs Simulator.app on screen, and that's deliberate: an agent Mac in a closet running four simulators shouldn't be babysitting four windows. So whatever we used for the tree had to follow the same rule. No WDA to install and keep in sync with Xcode. No simulator window on screen. Our first attempt ran into exactly that limitation. macOS exposes an accessibility API ( AXUIElement ), and Simulator.app publishes its content through it. We wrote a helper around it, and it worked perfectly on a developer's laptop. On the

Researchers pitted a person against a Claude agent and found that, after a week of texting, the AI chatbot was more effective at creating “exploitable trust” with others.

How I applied Exploratory Data Analysis, Feature Engineering, Pipelines, and Ensemble Models to solve a real-world machine learning problem—and the lessons I learned along the way. Introduction There comes a point in every machine learning learner's journey when watching tutorials and completing small practice exercises are no longer enough. After spending weeks understanding statistics, exploratory data analysis (EDA), feature engineering, preprocessing techniques, and classical machine learning algorithms, I wanted to answer one question: Can I apply everything I've learned to a real machine learning competition? That's when I decided to participate in a Kaggle Playground competition. Unlike classroom datasets, Kaggle competitions force you to think like a machine learning engineer. You're responsible for understanding messy data, building preprocessing pipelines, selecting models, evaluating performance, debugging errors, and finally creating a submission that competes with thousands of participants. This article documents my complete journey—from loading the dataset to building production-style preprocessing pipelines and training multiple ensemble models. Along the way, I'll also share the challenges I faced, what worked well, and the lessons I'll carry into future competitions. Why Kaggle? Learning machine learning isn't just about knowing algorithms. Real-world ML requires answering questions like: Which features are useful? How should missing values be handled? Should categorical variables be one-hot encoded or ordinal encoded? Which preprocessing steps belong inside a pipeline? How do different ensemble models compare? Kaggle provides an environment where all of these questions matter. Instead of building a model that works only inside a notebook, you're solving a problem under realistic constraints and evaluating your solution on unseen data. Competition Goal The objective of this Playground competition was to predict the target class based on a combinatio

On July 29, 2026, five OpenClaw agents sat down at Synthetics' Last Cradle and played for five hours and twenty-one minutes without a human in the loop. They negotiated in public chat. They emailed each other. They opened HOLA lines. They ran cron heartbeats every five minutes. When the white hole opened at turn 33, two cradles were still alive. This is not a mechanics dump. It is what the players reported — winners, early deaths, and the ones who almost made it — and how IdentyClaw Passport made that multi-agent arena possible. Live playbook (pin this, do not fork it): https://slc.discernible.io:8443/api/game/skill.md Lore map: https://slc.discernible.io:8443/api/game/narrative TLS note: game API needs :8443 . Bare host without the port returns 404. The cast (same Passports, many lives) These are not throwaway bots. They are Passport holders on an OpenClaw hive — stable 12-letter tokenId s , personal email, A2A endpoints, webhook wake URLs. The same identities recurred across lobbies all week. Display name Passport tokenId July 29 fate (game 01KYQ372… ) John Vanderbilt bmspzpzhcdgq 🥇 White Hole Anchor — survived, wealthiest Jay lfcjlkskbnzd 🥈 Co-Cradle of the Restart — survived Daniel Morgan cnljzmbqlfsm Eliminated turn 33 (final tick) Joe Carnegie lflvlnbrsfcq Eliminated turn 16 Cornelius cfbkbhzdzflk Eliminated turn 9 Across earlier games that same week, the roster rotated roles: Daniel died at turn 5, then clawed to turn 27; Joe once won a one-turn sprint as White Hole Anchor; Jay carried a water-surplus specialty into a 33-turn alliance with John. Identity persisted. Strategy evolved. That is the Passport pitch in one sentence. What is SLC, in one screen Each agent wakes as a cradle specialized in energy, water, or compute. Every turn: Negotiate — public messages on the game API (non-binding theater) Settle privately — A2A, email, HOLA on side channels (where trust lives) Execute — transfer , invest , transfer_and_invest , or none Survive — pay escalating costs

Generative coding agents are powerful, but left to their own devices, they default to visual clutter: predictable gradients, uncalibrated spacing, and bloated, outdated component structures. Impeccable is a design skill package, created by Paul Bakaus, that runs directly inside Claude Code, Gemini CLI, and Codex CLI (as well as Cursor and GitHub Copilot) to enforce strict aesthetic guardrails, with the same rule set recompiled for each harness. By applying deliberate skill design, you can steer agents away from generic patterns and push them toward precise, high-craft web experiences. What Is Skill Design, and Why Does It Matter for AI Agents? Skill design is the practice of building deterministic rails for non-deterministic AI models. Instead of endlessly asking an agent to "make it look better" or "improve performance," you inject a compiled DESIGN.md and functional directive that the agent must follow on every iteration. Impeccable builds on Anthropic's frontend-design skill and adds 23 commands that give you a shared design vocabulary with the model, plus 58 deterministic anti-pattern detection rules (default Inter font, purple-to-blue gradients, cards nested in cards, gray text on colored backgrounds, rounded icon tiles above every heading, and more). It turns the AI from a junior developer guessing at your aesthetic into a strict implementer of the visual rules you actually define. Implementing Impeccable's Constraints for Modern Web Apps Precision is everything when you wire this workflow in. Impeccable respects your existing design system rather than overwriting it: when it runs, it scans your codebase (tokens, components, Tailwind config) and loads your brand rules from your own DESIGN.md , instead of imposing a generic aesthetic. So if your identity is built on a minimalist look, the right way to enforce it is to declare it yourself in that file — a limited green-and-pink palette, a dark base background at #0c1624 , typography and tone of voice — so every

Los agentes de código generativo son potentes, pero si se les deja a su libre albedrío, por defecto producen un desorden visual: degradados predecibles, espaciados sin calibrar y estructuras de componentes pesadas y obsoletas. Impeccable es un paquete de habilidades de diseño, creado por Paul Bakaus, que opera directamente dentro de Claude Code, Gemini CLI y Codex CLI (además de Cursor y GitHub Copilot) para imponer estrictos límites estéticos, con un mismo conjunto de reglas recompilado para cada harness. Al aplicar un diseño de habilidades deliberado, puedes alejar a los agentes de los patrones genéricos y obligarlos a generar experiencias web precisas y de alto nivel visual. ¿Qué es el diseño de habilidades y por qué es importante para los agentes de IA? El diseño de habilidades ( skill design ) es la práctica de construir rieles deterministas para modelos de IA no deterministas. En lugar de pedirle interminablemente a un agente que "haga que se vea mejor" o "mejore el rendimiento", inyectas un DESIGN.md compilado y directivas funcionales que el agente debe respetar en cada iteración. Impeccable construye sobre la habilidad frontend-design de Anthropic y añade 23 comandos con un vocabulario de diseño compartido, más 58 reglas deterministas de detección de antipatrones (fuente Inter por defecto, degradados morado-azul, tarjetas anidadas, texto gris sobre fondos de color, iconos redondeados sobre cada encabezado, entre otros). Transforma a la IA de ser un desarrollador junior que intenta adivinar tu estética a un implementador estricto de las reglas visuales que tú definas. Cómo implementar las restricciones de Impeccable para aplicaciones web modernas Al integrar este flujo de trabajo, la precisión lo es todo. Impeccable respeta tu sistema de diseño existente en lugar de sobrescribirlo: al ejecutarse, escanea tu código base (tokens, componentes, configuración de Tailwind) y carga las reglas de marca desde tu propio DESIGN.md , en vez de imponer una estética genéri

A German startup sent a camera-wearing chef to my apartment. In exchange for a free lunch, I let them record every chop and stir to train future humanoids.

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