Tech Landscape
A weekly curated selection of news about digital technology, social media, and online culture.
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Tech Landscape #448 (opens the original)
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Hello!This week I attended an event run by BytePlus to promote Seedance and its other AI models. It was very busy, with people from all kinds of business including agencies, startups and, most notably, TV and movie production. It’s becoming clear that the release of Seedance 2.0 (and subsequently 2.5) represent a kind of turning point for the industry; they can generate long clips in up to 4k quality with excellent motion (including facial) transfer and coherence, ideal for longer-form content.W
Tech Landscape #447 (opens the original)
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Hello!I’ve just come back from a short break (in the New Forest; it was spectacular, thanks) so I’m very rushed for time this weekend and commentary will be lighter than usual. I do beg your pardon.I was away for most of the “AI has a 10% chance to kill us all” discourse (thankfully), but I’ll just make one comment: a core principle of scientific skepticism is that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence; I’ve yet to see any of that evidence present here, and in it’s absence I’d ques
Tech Landscape #446 (opens the original)
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Hello!This was an unusual week; because of Labor Day in the US there were fewer announcements, but some quite notable ones.I’ve been having a lot of fun vibe-coding bug fixes and feature improvements to my newsletter creation tool. The sense of achievement I get is different from when I used to write code by hand; it's changed from the feeling of achievement that I've finally got a feature working, to a feeling of achievement that I've finally got a whole piece of software working exactly the wa
Tech Landscape #445 (opens the original)
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Hello!This is a very special issue for me because it’s the first produced using a new software tool that I vibe-coded. Previously, as I’ve written about in this blog post, I had a workflow of about five different steps using Airtable, a few single-task tools that I’d coded myself, and manual copying and pastingIn the past few weeks I used Gemini (in AI Studio) to code a new tool that stores all my links, summarises them with Gemini, and displays them in a formatted web view which I can then copy
Tech Landscape #444 (opens the original)
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Hello!As you read this we’ve just had a public holiday here so this arrives a day later than usual. But as I write this it’s Friday evening and I’m rushing to get it finished so that I can enjoy the holiday weekend ahead, therefore I’m going to get right on with it.Hope you’re well!<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KeU5!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa7bbf17d-
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