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“Car Wash” test with 53 models
The car wash test is the simplest AI reasoning benchmark that nearly every model fails. We tested 53 models through Opper, first once each, then 10 times. Only 5 passed consistently.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,523 posts.
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Detecting and Preventing Distillation Attacks
We identified coordinated distillation attacks using ~24,000 fraudulent accounts to extract Claude's capabilities.
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Writing code is cheap now
Writing code is cheap now - Agentic Engineering Patterns
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The First Fully General Computer Action Model
We trained a model on our 11-million-hour video dataset. Our model can explore complex websites, complete multi-action CAD modeling sequences, and drive a car in the real world, all at 30 FPS.
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We hid backdoors in ~40MB binaries and asked AI + Ghidra to find them
BinaryAudit benchmarks AI agents using Ghidra to find backdoors in compiled binaries of real open-source servers, proxies, and network infrastructure.
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How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution
The research-plan-implement workflow I use to build software with Claude Code, and why I never let it write code until I've approved a written plan.
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Why is Claude an Electron app?
If coding agents make native ports cheap, why does Anthropic still ship Claude as an Electron app? Because code is cheap but maintenance isn’t.
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How Taalas “prints” LLM onto a chip?
A startup called Taalas , recently released an ASIC chip running Llama 3.1 8B (3/6 bit quant) at an inference rate of 17,000 tokens per seconds. That's like writing around 30 A4 sized pages in one second. They claim it's 10x cheaper in ownership cost than GPU based inference systems and is 10x less electricity hog…
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Andrej Karpathy talks about "Claws"
Andrej Karpathy tweeted a mini-essay about buying a Mac Mini ("The apple store person told me they are selling like hotcakes and everyone is confused") to tinker with Claws: I'm …
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Meta Deployed AI and It Is Killing Our Agency
Managing millions in Meta ad spend, yet treated like we don't exist. An inside look at how Meta's AI-driven changes are disrupting agencies and advertiser performance.
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Cord: Coordinating Trees of AI Agents
AI agents are good at doing one thing at a time. Give Claude a focused task and it performs. But real work isn’t one task. It’s a tree of tasks with dependencies, parallelism, and context that needs to flow between them.
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Every company building your AI assistant is now an ad company
Exploring how agents become multipliers, not replacers.
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Making frontier cybersecurity capabilities available to defenders
Claude Code Security is one step towards our goal of more secure codebases and a higher security baseline across the industry.
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Minions – Stripe's Coding Agents Part 2
Minions are Stripe’s homegrown coding agents, responsible for more than a thousand pull requests merged each week. Though humans review the code, minions write it from start to finish. Learn how they work, and how we built them.
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The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)
By Ljubisa Bajic Many believe AI is the real deal. In narrow domains, it already surpasses human performance. Used well, it is an unprecedented amplifier of human ingenuity and productivity. Its widespread adoption is hindered by two key barriers: high latency and astronomical cost. Interactions with language models…
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Consistency diffusion language models: Up to 14x faster, no quality loss
Standard diffusion language models can't use KV caching and need too many refinement steps to be practical. CDLM fixes both with a post-training recipe that enables exact block-wise KV caching and trajectory-consistent step reduction — delivering up to 14.5x latency improvements
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An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward
Context: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into acceptin…
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AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeleton
Companies that treat AI as an autonomous agent are disappointed. Those that treat it as an exoskeleton—an amplifier of human capability—are seeing…
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AI makes you boring
This post is an elaboration on a comment I made on Hacker News recently, on a blog post that showed an increase in volume and decline in quality among the “Show HN” submissons. I don't actually mind AI-aided development, a tool is a tool and should be used if you find it useful, but I think the vibe coded Show HN…
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AI made coding more enjoyable
To me, one of the most annoying parts of software engineering is writing code that doesn’t require thinking. It’s just a typing exercise, and that’s boring.
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Gemini 3.1 Pro
3.1 Pro is designed for tasks where a simple answer isn’t enough.
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Measuring AI agent autonomy in practice
Analysis of millions of human-agent interactions shows agent turns getting longer, with software engineering making up nearly half of tool calls.
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Step 3.5 Flash – Open-source foundation model, supports deep reasoning at speed
Scores represent the mean of the following eight benchmarks listed below, excluding xbench-DeepSearch. The Step 3.5 Flash score is derived under standard settings (i.e., $w/o$ Parallel Thinking).
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How AI is affecting productivity and jobs in Europe
Artificial intelligence promises to reshape economies worldwide, but firm-level evidence on its effects in Europe remains scarce. This column uses survey data to examine how AI adoption affects productivity and employment across more than 12,000 European firms. The authors find that AI adoption increases labour…
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What years of production-grade concurrency teaches us about building AI agents
Python and JavaScript/TypeScript AI frameworks are reinventing what telecom solved in 1986. What 40 years of production-grade concurrency teaches us about building AI agents.
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The Future of AI Software Development
Detailed report on the Thoughtworks AI retreat, should we write a manifesto for AI-enabled development, is spec-driven development the return of waterfall, LLMs perform better in healthy codebases
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What is happening to writing? Cognitive debt, Claude Code, the space around AI
"Cognitive debt," Claude Code, and the negative space around AI
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An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – Forensics and More Fallout
Context: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into acceptin…