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Key topics include: observations from judging Stanford's TreeHacks hackathon, the shift from 'just-in-case' to 'just-in-time' learning strategies for developers, and three major research directions beyond reasoning models — memory/continual learning, world models (video-based, JEPA-style, and adversarial/theory-of-mind), and multimodality including embodied AI in robotics. Swyx also touches on the economic risks of waiting to adopt AI tools, the limits of context window scaling, and a fourth frontier: AI for science. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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