GeoJSON Map Viewer
Tool: GeoJSON Map Viewer I was helping Natalie gather some maps of local political boundaries (for the Granada Community Services District and the Midcoast Community Council and found a need to display some GeoJSON...
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Quoting Tarn Adams
They took the letters from me! I have to talk about dwarf behavior now. I can't even talk about dwarf AI. It doesn't exist. It's dwarf behavior, and they misbehave sometimes — Tarn Adams, co-creator of Dwarf...
Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face
Ajeya Cotra is a researcher at METR, where she works on threat modeling for loss-of-control risks from advanced AI. Before that, she led the technical AI safety program at what is now Coefficient Giving.She is one the...
datasette-mcp 0.2
Release: datasette-mcp 0.2 "rows" from execute_sql is now an array of objects. Previously it was an array of arrays. This should help weaker models avoid losing track of which positional array element maps to which...
Python 3.15.0 candidate 2 is here!
Python 3.15.0 candidate 2 is here! Hugo van Kemenade (release manager for Python 3.14 and 3.15) announces the final release candidate for Python 3.15, scheduled for release in October: Entering the release candidate...
I think AI teams are defending the wrong thing
Subscribe • Previous Issues Your Model Is Not Your Moat In a recent article, I wrote about companies turning their own data, workflows, and production feedback into specialized intelligence they increasingly control....
The AI Boom’s Hidden Payment Schedule
A recent article, “Why the AI Boom Is Hitting a Reset Wall,” makes an argument I think is more useful than the usual debate over whether AI is a bubble. The question is not whether AI demand is real. It is whether the...
Bad code is kudzu
Cultivation of the Vines, Henri Martin Kudzu is a plant that was once introduced from East Asia to the eastern United States as a way to combat soil erosion. But, kudzu, once introduced, grows aggressively and can...
Introducing wrapture
Introducing wrapture New from Graham Dumpleton (of wrapt, mod_wsgi, and New Relic's Python agent fame), who describes Wrapture as taking the monkeypatching ideas from wrapt and extending them to apply to testing and...
Quoting Andrew Digby
325 #kakapo! The chicks from this year's record breeding season are now juveniles and so have been added to the population. In 1995 there were just 51 kākāpō left. Recovery of critically endangered species is possible...
The rise and fall of agent civilizations
This is a video recording of a post I wrote last week. You can read the original here.
AI and the Job Market: What We Know So Far
Table of Contents AI Is Changing Work Faster Than Employment The Entry-Level Squeeze Watch Hiring, Not Just Layoffs Automation and Augmentation Are Different Productivity Does Not Automatically Mean Fewer Jobs The...
Understanding ChatGPT Work
OpenAI announced ChatGPT Work on July 9th, and have been furiously iterating on it ever since. It is an extraordinarily confusing and very powerful product. Here's what I've figured out about it so far. ChatGPT Work is...
Introducing Hy4 Preview
Introducing Hy4 Preview New open weight text input (no vision) LLM from Chinese company Tencent today: 770B total parameters, 49B active parameters, 1M token context window, 1.56TB on Hugging Face. This is a big size...
The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations
Many thanks especially to Oak Hu, who paired with me for most of the writing, and also to Adam Kaufman and Alex Mallen, who paired with me during research.Over the course of three months at OpenAI, three consecutive...
Just a rumour of a bug is enough to find a security exploit these days
Just a rumour of a bug is enough to find a security exploit these days Anil Madhavapeddy is a professor of computer science at Cambridge and a core maintainer of the OCaml compiler. In this somewhat alarming post he...
How to have ideas
It’s a scene from our new post, The Man Who Knew Too Much. It starts out as holiday, and ends up as nightmare. Codenames is a board game played between two teams of players. At the start of the game, 25 cards are...
Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode
Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode Anthropic are putting a great deal of faith in Claude Code's auto mode for protecting their coding agent users against prompt injection attacks. They recently made that the default...
simple is not small
@notjack.space: UIs with too many buttons confuse and alarm me @sixfold-origami.com: ah, this is the unix thing! @notjack.space: no, because I want cross device sync to actually work Do we need simplicity? Recently, I...
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Another open weights model from Qwen. This one is "a multimodal MoE model that also serves as an early preview of the architecture used in Qwen4". It's pretty big: 125B tokens, but only 6B active...