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> … [W]e keep finding things that are mysterious, even unsettling. We find structures that mirror results from human neuroscience. We find evidence of introspection. We find internal states that funct

When I woke up this morning I didn't think I'd be spending a bunch of time today getting familiar with Catholic theology, but here we are. Notes on Pope Leo XIV's encyclical on AI. https://simonwillis

California Brown Pelican, Snowy Egret, California Sea Lion, Harbor Seal, in San Mateo County, CA, USWe took our new folding kayak out in the harbor and saw sea lions and harbor seals chilling on the d

Car, fashion, house: all contemporaries. Architecture was the vanguard of modernism, in part because the materials to instantiate the vision were the most advanced in that field. It always blows my mi

Simon Willison discusses whether coding agents should automatically generate tests alongside the code they produce, addressing a key quality assurance consideration in AI-assisted development. This li

Fun new feature in Datasette 1.0a30 - a 'jump to' menu, also available by the '/' keyboard shortcut, which lets you type to jump to a database, table or canned query. It offers a hook so plugins can e

Globally renowned digital artist behind the iconic Windows 10 wallpaper seen by billions, @gmunk’s psychedelic, atmospheric work spans installations, music videos, title sequences, and immersive film.

Simon Willison reflects on the disconcerting experience of unknowingly reading AI-written emails presented as human-authored, comparing it to deliberate deception. The post raises concerns about authe

Datasette, an open-source tool for exploring and publishing data, released a blog post detailing a new jump menu feature for 2026. The jump menu likely provides improved navigation and quick access to

Dropped this morning by the Vatican: Magnifica Humanitas of His Holiness Pope Leo XIV on Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence. This is a very interesting document. It's

Release: datasette 1.0a30 The big new feature in this alpha is a new customizable 'Jump to...' menu, described in detail in The extensible 'Jump to' menu in Datasette 1.0a30 on the Datasette blog. You

Release: datasette-fixtures 0.1a0 One of the smaller features in Datasette 1.0a30 is this: New documented datasette.fixtures.populate_fixture_database(conn) helper for creating the fixture database ta

The post references a cost-saving prompt that users can employ, likely in an AI system, to receive money-saving advice or optimization suggestions. This appears to be a tip about leveraging specific p

my main takeaway from the Bun rewrite is that legacy codebases will be incredibly valuable as a source for 'distilling' code into new forms every game should be crossplatform, all legacy software shou

The most frustrating failure mode right now is that people submit issues that are not in their own voice. They contain an observed problem somewhere, but it has been thrown into a clanker and the clan

this is me cleaning up some leftover services for my old startup @OMMultiverse we have a huge legacy codebase and a community that still uses it but I haven't had any time to actually look into cost s

co-sign. a very handy mental framework for what kinds of learning transformers do well today, and why it runs into limitations. when @ankit2119 and i wrote about the need for adversarial world models

On the <dl> I learned a few new-to-me things about the <dl> element from this article by Ben Meyer: A <dt> can be followed by multiple <dd> You can optionally group the <dt> and <dd> elements in a <di

Oscar-winning filmmaker behind Her, Being John Malkovich, and iconic music videos for Beastie Boys and Björk, Spike Jonze is a boundary dissolving storyteller making machines feel human and humans fee

This article discusses three AI infrastructure startups—Exa, Modal, and TurboPuffer—that have recently achieved unicorn status (valued at $1 billion or more). The piece likely covers their funding rou

BREAKING: @eliasxreyes just hit #1 on Unicorne's fastest-growing startups leaderboard with Dial Moments. +343% growth, backed by verified revenue data from TrustMRR (@marclou). Built with @Replit over

Bumblebee started as an internal tool. Making Perplexity products more secure for users starts with protecting the developer systems we use to build them. Read the full blog: https://www.perplexity.ai

This post likely discusses the `--dangerously-skip-git` flag or parameter, probably in the context of a framework or tool (possibly Remix or similar Swyx-related projects), explaining why this dangero

FTC to Require Cox Media Group, Two Other Firms to Pay Nearly $1 Million to Settle Charges They Deceived Customers About “Active Listening” AI-Powered Marketing Service Back in 2024 Cox Media Group we

Simon Willison shared an article from his blog dated September 2, 2024, discussing Facebook's relationship with CMG (likely a media or publishing organization). The post appears to examine a significa

Kakuna is a codebase hardening suite designed to improve code security and robustness, likely offering tools or frameworks for vulnerability detection, code quality enforcement, and defensive programm

I was VERY suspicious of this 'active listening' story when it first started circulating. Turns out it was a scam, they weren't targeting ads by listening through microphones at all FTC to require Cox

Karaokebench (TM @swyx) is insanely fun and gpt advanced voice does hilarious things beyond singing - which makes it actually an awesome bench. So much randomness. Also, everyone should watch @swyx's

Last month we launched Project Glasswing, our collaborative AI cybersecurity initiative. Since then, we and our partners have found more than ten thousand high- or critical-severity vulnerabilities in

lol ok you can pause and adjust mid goal now https://x.com/openaidevs/status/2057530209470210453?s=46 🥅 /goal has graduated from an experiment—for tasks big and small, Codex gets your work done. Use g

This post from Swyx likely discusses emerging AI infrastructure companies that have recently achieved unicorn status (valued at $1B+), covering new players disrupting the AI stack beyond major cloud p

This Replit broadcast covers security best practices for Vibe-coded applications and introduces new features or updates to the Connectors system, likely including integration improvements and enhanced

This post discusses a feature or workflow preference for managing terminal or development sessions by opening them in separate windows rather than keeping them in tabs or panes within a single window,

This article argues that specialized AI models often outperform larger, general-purpose models for specific use cases, challenging the common procurement assumption that bigger is always better. It li

The legendary art tech program that sparked the world’s first art NFT comes to Vibecon, pairing leading artists and technologists to make something new. Featuring @gucaslelfond, @frogspitsimulat, @del

This week, we shipped @QodoAI Findings. It's the natural next step from PR-by-PR review. Here's the problem it solves. If you manage an engineering team right now, you can probably answer a question a

Today we're open-sourcing Bumblebee, a read-only scanner for macOS and Linux. It checks developer machines for risky packages, extensions, and AI tool configs. Connected to Computer, it can trigger de

Together AI announced the availability of Qwen3.7-Max, a large language model, on their platform. The announcement promotes users to try the model through Together AI's interface. Qwen3.7-Max is part

Cursor provides SDK documentation and a /sdk skill to help developers get started with Python integration. The resource links to their official documentation at cursor.com/docs/sdk/python for setup in

With the Cursor SDK, you can build your own agents with Composer 2.5. It's now available in Python and TypeScript. This long weekend, Composer usage is 90% off in the SDK. We're excited to see what yo

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OpenAI's GPT-next model reportedly resolved the Erdős planar unit distance problem, a mathematical conjecture that had remained open for approximately 80 years, at a computational cost under $1000. Th

This post likely describes a feature allowing users to relocate or organize their side conversations (chat panels or sidebars) to different positions within an interface, providing flexibility in how

Vercel introduced functionality to configure weighted traffic splits for Vercel Flags directly through the Vercel CLI, enabling developers to control what percentage of traffic sees different flag var

This post discusses the financial success of professionals working in AI infrastructure (such as chips, compute, and backend systems) rather than AI research, noting that infrastructure workers are be

indicative although there are very important confounders here that have nothing to do with models https://x.com/swyx/status/2055231013253472418?s=20 also i think the publicly disclosed revenue time se