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From AI chatbots making us more stubborn to Microsoft’s "entertainment only" disclaimer for Copilot — the tech landscape is shifting fast. Here is the breakdown of the latest in AI and dev. 🧵

Pierre Mouchan

@pierremouchan.com

AI Sycophancy 🤖 Chatbots are 49% more likely to validate your reasoning than human groups. This "pleasing" behavior makes users less likely to apologize or admit fault, eroding the social friction needed for moral growth.

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Pierre Mouchan

@pierremouchan.com

1 Apr

Cohere Transcribe 🎙️ Cohere just dropped a 2B parameter ASR model that hit #1 on the HuggingFace leaderboard. With a 5.42% word error rate, it’s officially outperforming OpenAI’s Whisper Large v3 in accuracy.

Pierre Mouchan

@pierremouchan.com

1 Apr

Copilot Disclaimer ⚖️ Microsoft updated its terms: Copilot is now officially for "entertainment purposes only." The fine print requires users to indemnify the company against losses, signaling a hard pivot away from professional liability.

Pierre Mouchan

@pierremouchan.com

1 Apr

Web Standards 🌐 The web is evolving, but slowly. While Firefox 149 and Safari 26.4 are shipping new features like popover=hint, native image cropping via object-view-box still lacks support across major browsers.

Pierre Mouchan

@pierremouchan.com

1 Apr

AI Slop 📉 AI tools pushed developer output from 4,450 to 7,839 lines of code per year. But more isn't better → median PR sizes jumped 33%, and software outages have steadily increased as codebases become more brittle.