Luminar Bankrupts; AI Verification Hits Mainstream
Summary
Hardware fragility, scientific measurement uncertainty, and rapid developer tooling evolution signal a volatile period across tech sectors requiring vigilance.
- Luminar Files Bankruptcy after the core lidar sensor deal with Volvo collapsed, ending a contract for 39,500 units 1.
- AI Formal Verification is predicted to move into mainstream production codebases, expanding beyond current specialized use cases 9.
- fMRI Signal Reliability is fundamentally challenged as research finds 40% of signals do not reflect actual neural activity 3.
- Developer Tooling Shifts saw GitHub lowering hosted runner prices while developers rapidly port code using GPT-5.2 [7, 6].
- Chapter 11 - Luminar filed for this protection status following the collapse of its Volvo contract 1.
- 40 percent - The portion of fMRI signals that research shows do not reflect true brain activity 3.
- 4 hours - Time taken to port the JustHTML parser from Python to JavaScript using Codex CLI 6.
- 30 years - Sebastian Aaltonen’s experience in graphics code before advocating for ‘No Graphics API’ 8.
Key Moments
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We are already using generative AI to make Divinity, but there is nuance to it.
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40 percent of fMRI signals do not correspond to actual brain activity and are not representative of neural activity.
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AI will make formal verification go mainstream, bringing it to production codebases everywhere.
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I ported JustHTML from Python to JavaScript with Codex CLI and GPT-5.2 in hours, demonstrating rapid cross-language porting.
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Different Perspectives
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[8] No Graphics API