Featured post what's this? ✨ Design a url shortner A URL shortener is a proxy service that provides a mapping between the short and full representation of a URL. The short URL has the advantage of being small. The service can also provide useful analy
Are the LLM Wars the Database Wars? Large language models may not stay a revolution. They may become infrastructure, the way the database did, used everywhere and noticed by nobody.
Forcing Fable to generate disinformation Fable, Anthropic’s most heavily guarded and famously ‘locked down’ model, can be made to output persuasive misinformation on a range of topics, the example here being links between autism and vaccines, a decades-old staple of mis/dis-information that has,...
Coding too fast to collaborate | Chris Loy Software engineering is a collaborative discipline, in which a single engineer typically works closely with others in a cross-functional team.
Even with an edge, you lose? / Jappie Journal I rigged the coin such that it lands heads 60% of the time. All you have to do is place your bet and start harvesting. The goal of the game is to reach $999 wit
Aha! I don’t want to lose you I was chatting with fellow developers recently, and one thing that repeated during the conversation was something along the lines of, “I don’t feel the joy of the process anymore”. I also noticed that something here is forced on us and there is no other w...
Design a url shortner A URL shortener is a proxy service that provides a mapping between the short and full representation of a URL. The short URL has the advantage of being small. The service can also provide useful analy
Hardware is not so hard What Chip Weinberger learned building and selling 2500 Jamcorder MIDI recorders.
Getting organized: personal inventory management Getting organized: personal inventory management - Jan Schutte
Why being a football fan is irrationally rational Randomness, fan culture, and emotions make football a great hobby
Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now In Rewriting Bun in Rust Jarred Sumner made the following claim: Claude Code v2.1.181 (released June 17th) and later use the Rust port of Bun. Startup got 10% faster on …
RL economics, morally charged terms, and “distillation” – Thomas Dullien After a number of Twitter discussions, and repeating myself a lot in these discussions, it is time to write a short note on the economics of advancing LLM capabilities through RL, about principles of propaganda and coining new words, and about my stubborn...
On Claude's Clotted Writing Style I use Claude every day. And yet, I have not figured out how to read Claude's dialect.
We Are Entering the Graph Engineering Phase The agent loop got good enough to expose its own ceiling. The next discipline is designing agent systems as explicit graphs: boring nodes, typed edges, checkpointed state.
Blindsight and Gorgias: The Chinese Room and Sophistry I recently finished reading the sci-fi novel Blindsight by Peter Watts. I think I was led to it when searching for authors similar to Neal Stephenson, whose works I really enjoy. And it was bang on. L
Backport refreshed bundled model metadata to 0.144 by sayan-oai · Pull Request #33972 · openai/codex Summary Backport d26a9bf671b1c03aabfc32e1092d137c1feb3962 to the 0.144 release line. Refresh bundled GPT-5.6 model instructions and context-window metadata. Refresh reasoning-summary, skills, perm...
AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making — Ludicity Note: This has been cross-posted to my company's blog, in case you think there is some use in sharing with someone in a format that looks more authoritative. Link here.
GitHub - stupside/castor: Point it at any web page and it finds the video, extracts the stream, transcodes it and casts in real time to your TV. It even burns subtitles…. Point it at any web page and it finds the video, extracts the stream, transcodes it and casts in real time to your TV. It even burns subtitles…. - stupside/castor
Rebuilding FIFA Standings Layout with CSS Subgrid A look at how to rebuild the FIFA standings layout by using CSS grid, subgrid, and more.
