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Wasting Inferences with Aider
Auto-Fixing Bugs from Asana (for 9 cents!)
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,091 posts.
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Anubis Works
Xe Iaso's personal website.
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The Bitter Prediction
The Ivory Tower is a blog about software engineering and development philosophy by Anders Sundman.
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Google is winning on every AI front
Neither OpenAI nor Anthropic have a chance at this point
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AI coding and the peanut butter and jelly problem
Why clear communication—not clever prompts—is your real AI superpower
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Obituary for Cyc
After 40 years, 30 million rules, 200 million dollars, 2000 person-years, and many promises, Cyc has failed to reach intellectual maturity, and may never will. Exacerbated by the secrecy and insularity of Cycorp, there remains no evidence of its general intelligence.
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Bill to block OpenAI's for-profit conversion gets mysteriously gutted
I hope the media will look into this
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Baby Steps into Genetic Programming
While my final ranking in the Google AI Contest was disappointing ( 280th ), it was a very educational experience and was totally offset by Gábor Melis' dominating win using Common Lisp as well.
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MonkeysPaw – A prompt-driven web framework in Ruby
Be careful what you wish for...
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No elephants: Breakthroughs in image generation
When Language Models Learn to See and Create
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Senior Developer Skills in the AI Age
How time-tested software engineering practices amplify the effectiveness of AI coding assistants.
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The slow collapse of critical thinking in OSINT due to AI
This isn’t a rant against AI. I use it daily, ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude, Gemini. They’re in my workflow like everyone else’s. But the tradecraft is slipping. Analysts are skipping the hard parts. They’re trusting GenAI to do the heavy cognitive lifting, and it’s changing how we operate at a foundational level.
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An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip
There is only one thing worse than being imitated
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I stopped using AI code editors
In the past I used AI code editors for all of my programming, but I stopped using it and recommend others to consider this as well
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When Jorge Luis Borges met one of the founders of AI
One reason I became a historian is the joy of encountering moments in the past that are foreign, yet also oddly familiar.
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Why Does Claude Speak Byzantine Music Notation?
A Caesar cipher is a reasonable transformation for a transformer to learn in its weights, given that a specific cipher offset occurs often enough in its training data. There will be some hidden representation of the input tokens' spelling, and this representation could be used to shift letters onto other letters in…
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Don’t let an LLM make decisions or execute business logic
Don’t let an LLM make decisions or implement business logic: they suck at that.
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Automating Interactive Fiction Logic Generation with LLMs in Emacs
From the creator of Ten Dollar Adventure, a blog about the experience of writing the book, being a parent, navigating the entrepreneurial high seas, and learning.
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AI agents: Less capability, more reliability, please
Sergey Filimonov's blog
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Et Tu, Grammarly?
The one where I deploy counter defences.
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Waymos crash less than human drivers
Human drivers keep crashing into Waymos that aren't even moving.
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The role of developer skills in agentic coding
Notes from my colleagues on AI-assisted software delivery
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Gemini 2.5 Pro reasons about task feasibility
... in which a surprisingly reflective AI tells me no (for good reasons) ...
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Bitter Lesson is about AI agents
The Race for AI Progress In 2019, Richard Sutton, wrote his groundbreaking essay titled ‘The Bitter Lesson’. Simply put, the essay concludes that systems which get better with higher compute beat the systems that do not. Or specifically in AI: raw computing power consistently wins over intricate human-designed…
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A (Long) Peek into Reinforcement Learning
[Updated on 2020-09-03: Updated the algorithm of SARSA and Q-learning so that the difference is more pronounced. [Updated on 2021-09-19: Thanks to 爱吃猫的鱼, we have this post in Chinese].
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Improving recommendation systems and search in the age of LLMs
Model architectures, data generation, training paradigms, and unified frameworks inspired by LLMs.
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Not all AI-assisted programming is vibe coding (but vibe coding rocks)
Vibe coding is having a moment. The term was coined by Andrej Karpathy just a few weeks ago (on February 6th) and has since been featured in the New York …
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“Vibe Coding” vs. Reality
Reviewing the capabilities and limitations of LLM agents in software development and their impact on skilled and less skilled developers.