News Summary

• Answering your Decoder questions about surveillance, AI coverage, and the Nilay rant.
• Nilay Patel: The excitement around AI is so high and it’s all connected to how good systems are at manipulating databases.
• Patel: I feel like I should make another riff on the “People do not yearn for automation,” but as Dennis Miller — just full rant.
• The power of AI means Dennis Miller can deliver software right now.
• If you believe the world is just at making software, that means AI has gotten really good.