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Ethics of Agent Exploitation
The price of synthetic labor is collapsing. Some thoughts from my small agent factory about AI economics, KV cache compression, human-in-the-loop and whether I should feel guilty about keeping the machines busy.
Jev can't be calibrated
Jev is a useful zero-shot classifier, but its probabilities can't be calibrated for your data. Calibration depends on your data distribution, which Jev never sees, so treat its outputs as scores and recalibrate them on your own labeled examples.
Lifelogging with Large Language Models | Jaan Altosaar
The first time AI makes me tear up I'm biking down a sunny Brooklyn street.
Jobs of the Future May Resemble Those From the Past
The jobs of the far future may not be ones we can’t conceive of yet, but instead ones from the past that keep us capable of operating independently of AI. As recent geopolitical events can attest to, there is a risk in trusting partners with critical capabilit…
Downgrades
10-year Treasury yield Recently, interest rates for government debt have been rising worldwide. As I write the yield of the 10-year US trea...
DrivingBench
A benchmark where frontier language models drive a real comma-equipped Toyota through a cone course, one command at a time, with a human supervisor ready to brake.
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There Is No Now
A message can arrive on time and still belong to a world that has already changed. What a paper from 1978 can teach us about group chats, shared decisions, and the computers we trust to act for us.
We should share childhood stories more
– Children playing ball games, Roman artwork, 2nd century AD. Photo by: Jastrow via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0 One of the best laughs I’ve had with my wife have been due to sharing childhood experiences. She’s also fond of my baby memories, or the really emb…
Why Omarchy Exists - Mikael’s Blog
Thank me, I just listened to a 5 hour interview with DHH so you don’t have to. I would sum it up as a never-ending serenade to the current love...
Why didn't anybody tell me about hash slots
I work on a service that decides which courier gets offered your delivery at a gig economy delivery app. When you open the app and ask for something to be brought to you, some code somewhere has to decide which of the couriers should be offered the job. We’re …
How I Manage Homebrew From a UI
BrewUI is Homebrew's official macOS GUI. I'm a terminal person by default, but here's why I installed it anyway, how the configuration works, and what upgrading and installing packages looks like from the app instead of a shell.
Ten years of Postgres logical replication
A long time ago I ran a write-heavy system on a hub and a handful of workers. Each worker took a share of the application traffic and wrote events locally. The …
My German Exit Tax: 13 Tax Advisors, 1.5 Years, 18.7k€ to be able to leave the country - Oliver Eidel
Case study on Germany’s exit tax: how the author spent 1.5 years, consulted 13 tax advisors, and paid 18.7k€ to move to Thailand.
An LLM Beat NetHack
To my knowledge, the first recorded LLM-agent NetHack ascension
Claude discovers a novel enzyme system
In early results from our new life sciences research lab, Claude agents found an enzyme system whose function is still unknown.
Jev Does Not Play Dice: 83% probability, 19% accuracy on a hidden fair die roll
Jev gave a hidden fair die roll an 83% probability and was right 19% of the time. A check of its calibrated probabilities, with code and data.
how do you design the right domain-specific harness?
what belongs in a research harness when the models keep improving, and how do we get the expertise into it?
Sandboxing with minimal effort
The other day I merged a new feature for Inko that I think is quite interesting: the ability to sandbox an application with minimal effort.
You Don't Need A %Frontier LLM%
In most of the cases you don't need (Astra|Fable|Opus|%paste-a-new-LLM-name-released-this-week%).
First Principles Thinking · Sunil Sadasivan
On first principles thinking, learning to work with agents, and setting experience aside long enough to see a problem clearly.
Back to Coupling and Cohesion - Daniil Bastrich
Coupling and Cohesion in practice: meaningful quantitative metrics and the common ground behind software design principles.
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Claude Code reads AGENTS.md only when telemetry is on
Claude Code 2.1.277 added AGENTS.md support, but the loader sits behind a remote feature flag. With telemetry or nonessential traffic turned off, a local AGENTS.md is skipped without a warning. This is what I measured and the one-line CLAUDE.md I use instead.
Jev in 25 lines of Python - NobodyWho
Everyone is talking about Jev - here it is in 25 lines of Python.
SAML: A fractal of bad design
SAML, the XML-based authentication protocol that birthed the SSO industry, is fundamentally flawed due to XML complexity, canonicalization issues, enveloped signatures, and design ossification, making it vulnerable to signature wrapping attacks and parser diff…
FoxDev Studio
A modern IDE and 64-bit runtime for Visual FoxPro 9 applications: the same language, rebuilt on Electron, React and a Rust virtual machine in WebAssembly.
Claude Opus 5.5 (max with fallback) - Intelligence, Performance & Price Analysis | Artificial Analysis
Analysis of Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort, Default Fallback) and comparison to other AI models across key metrics including quality, price, performance (tokens per second & time to first token), context window & more.
Be the first human to review your own code
The author should be the first human to review a change, before asking someone else to approve it.
It's Hard to Learn from Machines
Superhuman programs won't teach you to be superhuman.
Beyond the coding agent: building a research harness from first principles — EdotEnv
Introducing Oh My Quant: a research-native agent harness for experiments, durable evidence, and traceable conclusions.
CLI tools have always been broken
As one who’s lived in the shell for twenty years, I’m happy (though not surprised) to see how naturally the CLI fit into the AI world.
What to build when robotics enters the smooth exponential
Hardware gets cheaper, general models handle robot tasks, and full-stack robotics companies reach real revenue. What should others in the space build?
This utility turns off the MacBook display when it connects to an external monitor
For some inexplicable reason, macOS won’t let you turn off the MacBook’s built-in display when it’s connected to an external monitor. The free One Display utility fixes that.
tokens too cheap to meter
tokens are going to be as cheap as electricity within the decade
Too many agents, one Mac | @mcclowes
The scheduler must live at the same level as the constrained resource.
Ask for Help (Well) · Jason Fennell
Reference for early career folks asking for help
Being considerate of other people's time
Be considerate of the time you require from other community members.
Deploy drunk
If your system only survives you sober, it doesn't survive you.
Self-hosting LLM models for software development | Kévin Maschtaler
What I use to run large language models on self-hosted GPU on AWS, and how it cut my Claude bill.
Living Is Not For The Weak
Roman Emperors, blog writers and super heroes all have to find the values they live by somewhere - Marcus Aurelius, Mark Manson and Oliver Queen (The Arrow) tell us where.
I Bought A Scanner (No, Really This Time)
I Bought A Scanner (No, Really This Time)
Software Engineering Is Not Over; It's Only Just Beginning
My grandfather was a plumber. Correction: my grandfather was the best damn plumber in his North Jersey suburb of New York City, and everyone in town knew it. He had ten kids, six of them boys, and as my father and his five brothers grew up they all, at one poi…
Analyzing Jev Outcomes with Validator
Introducing Validator, a CLI for evaluating Jev model outcomes.
Artificial Intelligence in Research | Thibaut Modrzyk
The preface to my PhD thesis — on AI, how research is changing, and the kind of researcher I want to become.
GrapheneOS (@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social)
@tranquil_cassowary@infosec.exchange @ocelot221@mastodon.social @mhoye@cosocial.ca @mulchmaxxing@blahaj.zone There's a high chance of devices being sold with it preinstalled in 2027 but probably not for the initial launch.
A Simple Guide to Calm UI
Try adding an item to each list below.
Ship the Ugly Pot | Joe Karlsson
Your org is the quality group from the pottery parable. They were told to make one perfect pot. They made worse pots.