AI's 2025: 10 charts from the Stanford report.
The 2026 edition of Stanford's annual AI Index tells the story of AI's 2025 in numbers. Key findings on capability, investment, adoption, safety and trust, in charts.
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Notes and lessons.
From the systems I've built, the competitions I've won and what I've learned along the way.
Does AI really make developers faster?
Experienced developers got 19% slower with AI but believed they had sped up. Speed, perception and reality in light of METR's experiments, Google's controlled study and surveys from the field.
4 readsWhy do 95% of companies get nothing back from AI?
MIT NANDA's 2025 report says most companies spending billions on generative AI see no measurable return. What are the winning 5% doing differently?
4 readsHow ready are financial giants for AI?
In light of Oxford's interviews with banks and insurers and the Evident AI Index ranking of 50 banks: who leads, why do projects get stuck in pilot, and what does the "caution paradox" mean?
6 readsSecurity in vibe coding: 19 checks before you ship.
AI writes working code in minutes; it doesn't write secure code. Backed by research and real incidents from 2025, the 19 steps to check before you put an application live.
5 readsCan a Raspberry Pi guide you through a hospital?
My TÜBİTAK 2209-A project: a low-cost system that uses face recognition to direct patients to their appointments.
4 reads2024 Financial Technologies: first place in Turkey.
How we built our fraud detection model for TEKNOFEST 2024, why we didn't trust a single model, and what we told the jury.
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