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Data is the only moat
How different adoption models drive better applications
LLM Structured Outputs Handbook
A practical handbook for developers using LLMs to get structured outputs.
Raspberry Pi's New AI Hat Adds 8GB of RAM for Local LLMs
Today Raspberry Pi launched their new $130 AI HAT+ 2 which includes a Hailo 10H and 8 GB of LPDDR4X RAM. With that, the Hailo 10H is capable of running LLMs entirely standalone, freeing the Pi's CPU and system RAM for other tasks. The chip runs at a maximum of 3W, with 40 TOPS of INT8 NPU inference performance in…
To those who fired or didn't hire tech writers because of AI
Hey you, Yes, you, who are thinking about not hiring a technical writer this year or, worse, erased one or more technical …
Pocket TTS: A high quality TTS that gives your CPU a voice
Our mission is to build and democratize artificial general intelligence through open science.
Furiosa: 3.5x efficiency over H100s
Meet the RNGD Server, delivering scalable, energy-efficient AI inference at data center scale with FuriosaAI’s Renegade accelerator platform.
Scaling long-running autonomous coding
We've been experimenting with running coding agents autonomously for weeks at a time.
The Influentists: AI hype without proof
Why we are losing technical rigor to social hype
Claude Cowork exfiltrates files
Claude Cowork is vulnerable to file exfiltration attacks via indirect prompt injection as a result of known-but-unresolved isolation flaws in Claude's code execution environment.
LLMs are a 400-year-long confidence trick
In 1623 the German Wilhelm Schickard produced the first known designs for a mechanical calculator. Twenty years later Blaise Pascal produced a machine of an improved design, aiming to help with the large amount of tedious arithmetic required in his role as a tax collector. The interest in mechanical calculation showed…
First impressions of Claude Cowork
Plus Fly’s new Sprites.dev addresses both developer sandboxes and API sandboxes at the same time
Stop using natural language interfaces
Natural language is a wonderful interface, but just because we suddenly can doesn't mean we always should.
The insecure evangelism of LLM maximalists
I just can't help feeling these training wheels are getting in the way of my bicycle commute.
Why we don’t use AI
We get asked about AI a lot. Whether we’re going to add it to Yarn Spinner, whether we use it ourselves, what we think about it. Fair questions. Time to write it all down. Yarn Spinner doesn’t use the technology that’s currently being called AI. We don’t have generative AI features in the product, and we don’t use…
We can't have nice things because of AI scrapers
In the past few months the MetaBrainz team has been fighting a battle against unscrupulous AI companies ignoring common courtesies (such as robots.txt) and scraping the Internet in order to build up their AI models . Rather than downloading our dataset in one complete download, they insist on loading all of…
Let's be honest, Generative AI isn't going all that well
A sampling of recent news
Using proxies to hide secrets from Claude Code
How to use HTTP proxies to prevent credential exposure in Claude Code sandboxes.
vLLM large scale serving: DeepSeek 2.2k tok/s/h200 with wide-ep
How vLLM reaches 2.2k tokens per second per H200 for DeepSeek-style MoE serving with Wide-EP, async scheduling, dual-batch overlap, disaggregated serving, CUDA
Mozilla's open source AI strategy
The future of intelligence is being set right now, and the path we’re on leads somewhere I don’t want to go. We’re drifting toward a worl
Fabrice Bellard's TS Zip (2024)
Results and speed for other programs on enwik8 and enwik9 are available at the Large Text Compression Benchmark .
Superhuman AI Exfiltrates Emails
Superhuman AI was able to exfiltrate sensitive emails from user accounts - without the user even being aware. This vulnerability was rapidly remediated by the Superhuman team.
We put Claude Code in Rollercoaster Tycoon
AI autonomously manages a theme park in the classic game RollerCoaster Tycoon, placing rides, fixing infrastructure, and generating CFO reports, all via command line.
Reproducing DeepSeek's MHC: When Residual Connections Explode
DeepSeek replaced standard residuals with massive Hyper-Connections, and then watched them explode. I reproduced the 9x signal amplification to understand their fix: the Sinkhorn-Knopp algorithm. Part 1 of 2.
Anthropic made a mistake in cutting off third-party clients
Anthropic may have just committed the biggest business blunder of 2026 -- and we're less than two weeks in. To understand why, let's briefly rewind to 2025, the year when agentic AI went mainstream.
Which programming languages are most token-efficient?
Comparing token efficiency across 19 popular programming languages using RosettaCode data - from Clojure to C, there's a 2.6x difference.
AI is a business model stress test
AI commoditizes anything you can specify. It can't (yet) commoditize what requires ongoing operation.