I'm excited to be speaking at the next PyAI Meetup in San Francisco on Nov 11 about using coding assistants to create high-quality, secure code :) Hope to see you there!
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Llion Jones, co-author of the 2017 paper that launched the transformer era, says he’s ‘absolutely sick’ of transformers — and believes the field’s over-fixation on one architecture may be stifling the next breakthrough. venturebeat.com/ai/sakana-ai...
At the Man vs. Machine hackathon, co-hosted by AI nonprofit METR to test if AI helps people code faster and better, the top prize went to an "AI-supported" team (Kylie Robison/Wired)
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One of the absolute greats.
The playhead on the #SNL 50 broadcast on YouTube TV is a cowbell.
Pydantic and uv (and ruff!) are amazing.
Pro Tip: Pass a Pydantic model to the OpenAI package with JSON mode to get structured data in your response. :)
Congrats to the Astral team! uv is awesome.
Great overview of different methods to build reasoning a #LLM.
A great overview of all things LLM from Andrej Karpathy, targeted at a (relatively) general audience.
#Unsloth fixes bugs in Phi-4, dramatically improving the performance of the small #LLM. Unsloth continues to impress.
Regex-based #chess? Sure, why not. Nicholas Carlini stitches 84,688 regex snippets into a 2-ply minimax engine. Pure #hacker whimsy at its finest.
"I gained remote code execution via MIDI messages to trick my synth into playing Bad Apple on its LCD." I love this kind of #ReverseEngineering project :)
@fastmail.com is excellent.
Fascinating to see a systematic approach using system safety and control theory by Google #SRE. An approach like this is needed with sufficiently complex systems to help prevent and mitigate complex failures.
Turns out, at least in this experiment, telling an #LLM to write better code actually helps. (Also, perhaps a rare time Betteridge's Law is disobeyed.)
How small can a #AI language model be?
Posting for reach? Careful, that might require a proper covering space…
But will it play Crysis?
This was exactly my thought
Now your proof of life includes saving pixelated worlds from the demons of Doom. Once again, it is proven that Doom can run on anthing - even a CAPTCHA prompt.
A good monorepo + @jetbrains.com tools work well until you get to a certain large scale.
Indexing code well is a tough problem, especially at scale. Interesting namespace conflict between products that ... um ... index things. #programming
@kagi.com is pretty awesome. Thanks to @gruber.foo for highlighting. Worth a visit and try for any user, and a worthwhile shot at making a straightforward business model work for #search. The `?` operator to trigger an AI summary is just a truly inspired design.
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social argues that #AI should refocus on its original goal: serving as a theoretical tool to advance cognitive science—not just building smarter machines.
SemiKong, built on #Llama 3.1, is an open-source #AI tailored for the #semiconductor industry. It streamlines chip design, boosts manufacturing precision, and accelerates workforce training—promising faster innovation and smarter production pipelines. A hopeful leap for smarter semiconductors.
Not familiar with Betteridge’s Law? Google it (or ask your favorite AI). Today’s #AI is messy, but sound engineering will catch up.
Half-baked products skew perceptions, but quality systems are possible. (See s1.ai/purple 😉)
The Wright Flyer was pretty wobbly too on its first few flights.
Sending good energy to the #OpenAI SRE staff who are surely working late tonight. status.openai.com/incidents/6b...
I should note that the site hosting this post I just referenced has an emulator that runs The Print Shop, and *GENERATES PDFS* of the output. ...awesome. theprintshop.club
Who else thinks the world today is missing the charm of a dot-matrix-printed banner from The Print Shop? #nostalgia
