People evaluating people, AI’s changing seasons, shattering the mobile internet

Welcome back to Zero Shot, where Rohin, Praveen, and Brady deliver their takes on new developments in artificial intelligence every Wednesday.This week, Rohin considers how AI will change the way employers hire. With AI-generated responses being the norm, hiring managers see a larger variation between the quality of submitted materials and in-person interviews than ever before. Applicants might need to “show and tell” to demonstrate their expertise. The importance of strong verbal communication, quick response times, and language fluency could also matter more. Then, Praveen takes us through the four seasons of AI and how Deepseek acknowledged a growing gap between closed and open-source language models, which marks the difference between AI development in the US and China. Naturally, Deepseek is building new stuff: an attention mechanism that will be used in its newer models to handle long context more efficiently.Finally, Brady maps out how mobile apps will soon become pipes that feed agents. A new ZTE phone that is steered by an AI agent developed by Bytedance offers a glimpse into the future, where screens matter less and “machine users” emerge. There will need to be new ways of thinking about the metrics that matter—daily active users and session lengths won’t tell us much—and there are other fundamental implications for UI/UX design.Zero Shot’s cover art is generated by AI. Everything else is made by humans.Send us your ideas, critiques, and suggestions at [email protected], or drop us a note just to say hi. We love hearing from our listeners.*Additional ReadingWorry, the explainer is deadhttps://www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/sorry-the-explainer-is-dead/Japanese game studio tasks job seekers to draw in front of them to make sure their portfolios aren't AI-madehttps://80.lv/articles/japanese-game-studio-tasks-job-seekers-to-draw-in-front-of-them-to-make-sure-their-portfolios-aren-t-ai-madeWhy does AI write like… that?https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/magazine/chatbot-writing-style.htmlWhat it’s like to interview a software engineer preparing with AIhttps://www.kapwing.com/blog/what-its-like-to-interview-a-software-engineer-preparing-with-ai/“There are four seasons in a year”https://x.com/mehulmpt/status/1995474826031460466DeepSeek-V3.2: Pushing the frontier of open large language modelshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2512.02556Alibaba Cloud founder expects big AI shakeup after OpenAI hypehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0PaVrpFD14  Demo of ByteDance’s AI agent on a ZTE phonehttps://x.com/TaylorOgan/status/1996539953979785521AI browsers aren’t smart enough yet to take over the internethttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-12-08/what-is-agentic-browsing-and-why-are-ai-browsers-not-replacing-chrome-yetWoman hailed as hero for smashing man’s Meta smart glasses on subwayhttps://futurism.com/future-society/woman-hero-smashing-meta-smart-glasses-subwayOpenAI, ARIA, and SEO: Making the web worsehttps://adrianroselli.com/2025/10/openai-aria-and-seo-making-the-web-worse.htmlTrump administration moves to deny visas to factcheckers and content moderatorshttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/05/trump-administration-us-visa-crackdown

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