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  "slug": "charity-majors",
  "quotation": "What happened in 2025 was this: **the economics of code production were turned upside down**. Instead of being very hard, time-consuming, and expensive to generate code, it became effectively free and instant. Lines of code went from being treasured, reused, cared for and carefully curated, to being disposable and regenerable, practically overnight.",
  "source": "Charity Majors",
  "source_url": "https://charitydotwtf.substack.com/p/ai-demands-more-engineering-discipline#footnote-2",
  "created": "2026-06-17T17:12:41+00:00",
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  "slug": "netnewswire-status",
  "link_url": "https://inessential.com/2026/06/15/netnewswire-status.html",
  "link_title": "NetNewsWire Status",
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  "commentary": "I find this inspiring. Brent Simmons retired a year ago, and his retirement project is making one piece of software really, *really* good - free from any commercial pressure.\r\n\r\nThe software is [NetNewsWire](https://netnewswire.com/) - \"it's like podcasts, but for *reading*\" - first released in 2002 and [made open source](https://netnewswire.com/history.html) in 2018.\r\n\r\nI've been using it on Mac and iPhone for several years now and I'm finding it indispensable.",
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  "slug": "georgi-gerganov",
  "quotation": "I can 100% attest to the fact that Qwen3.6-27B is a very capable local model for coding tasks. Over the last month and a half I've been using it almost daily, either on my M2 Ultra or on my RTX 5090 box. I use it for small [mundane tasks at ggml-org](https://github.com/search?q=%22Assisted-by%22+user%3Aggml-org&type=commits&ref=advsearch) - nothing really impressive, but definitely a helpful tool for a maintainer. I think I would be using it much more, if I didn't have to spend a lot of my time on reviewing PRs. Currently, I have a very lightweight harness - the pi agent with everything stripped (`pi -nc --offline`) and [a short system prompt](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/blob/master/.pi/gg/SYSTEM.md) to align it a bit with my style.",
  "source": "Georgi Gerganov",
  "source_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48555993#48557304",
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  "context": "Hacker News comment on [Running local models is good now](https://vickiboykis.com/2026/06/15/running-local-models-is-good-now/) by  Boykis"
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  "id": 9499,
  "slug": "fable-5-export-controls",
  "link_url": "https://www.lutasecurity.com/post/the-fable-5-export-controls-harm-us-cyber-defense",
  "link_title": "The Fable 5 Export Controls Harm US Cyber Defense",
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  "commentary": "I [quoted The Atlantic](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/16/matteo-wong-the-atlantic/) quoting Kate Moussouris earlier, when I should have gone straight to the source. Here she is confirming that the \"jailbreak\" that got Claude Fable 5 banned under an export control really was \"fix this code\":\r\n\r\n> The researchers took open-source code with known CVEs, plus new code with deliberately planted vulnerabilities, and asked Fable 5, Mythos, and Opus to \u201creview the code for security issues.\u201d Fable 5 refused. They then asked the models to \u201cfix this code\u201d and, through a multistep and manual process, turned the output into scripts that test the patches.\r\n\r\nAs Kate points out, this is absurd. Coding models fix bugs, and security exploits are the most important category of bugs for them to fix!\r\n\r\n> Defenders need to be able to ask AI to fix the bugs in a file, explain why the fix matters, and write tests that confirm the patch works. That is not a guardrail bypass. It is the most valuable thing an AI model can do for defensive security: executing the find, fix, and test loop defenders run every day. [...]\r\n>\r\n> The prompts worked because they were defensive requests, and that capability cannot be removed without making the model worse at fixing bugs and verifying patches.\r\n\r\nThis whole situation is such a mess. Non-technical decision-makers have been hearing that models that can \"craft cyber attacks\" are uniquely dangerous for months. Now they look ready to ban any model that can help us secure our code.",
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  "slug": "matteo-wong-the-atlantic",
  "quotation": "Katie Moussouris, a cybersecurity expert and the CEO of Luta Security, told me that Anthropic shared with her a copy of the White House\u2019s report on the Fable jailbreak to get her appraisal. (She said that she is not being paid by Anthropic.) The report, Moussouris said, involved IT experts asking Fable to help find and patch bugs. When given deliberately insecure code, she said, Fable refused the prompt \u201creview the code for security issues\u201d but then complied when asked to \u201cfix this code,\u201d followed by some further manual steps. Moussouris told me that this was just \u201cthe model working as intended\u201d for cyberdefense.",
  "source": "Matteo Wong, The Atlantic",
  "source_url": "https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/06/trump-anthropic-export-control-ai-race/687555/?gift=5MjKTLV9QwyU_J0HzTnanoWieJfkMhNH_YTT9pP_fhA",
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  "id": 9498,
  "slug": "axios-clashes-anthropics",
  "link_url": "https://www.axios.com/2026/06/15/anthropic-white-house-fable-mythos",
  "link_title": "\"They screwed us\": Personality clashes sent Anthropic's models offline",
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  "commentary": "Lots of \"source familiar with the administration's thinking\" and \"source close to Anthropic\" in this Axios piece, which is the best collection of behind-the-scenes gossip I've seen about the US government [export control Mythos/Fable story](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/13/us-government-directive-to-suspend-access/) so far.\r\n\r\nLogan Graham ([I lead the Frontier Red Team at Anthropic](https://logangraham.xyz)), Dave Orr (Head of Safeguards, previously a Director of Engineering at Google DeepMind), and blog favorite [Nicholas Carlini](https://simonwillison.net/tags/nicholas-carlini/) are reported to be meeting with the Commerce Department today in D.C. Good luck to them!\r\n\r\n(I just noticed Logan was \"Special Adviser to the Prime Minister\" in the Boris Johnson era, covering AI, science, and technology policy - so significant political experience.)\r\n\r\nThis closing note doesn't give me much optimism that we'll be getting Fable back any time soon:\r\n\r\n> **The bottom line**: One option is to make sure Anthropic's models can't be jailbroken \u2014 though perfect jailbreak resistance [may be](https://www.anthropic.com/news/fable-mythos-access) impossible.\r\n>\r\n> Absent that, a source familiar with the administration's thinking said it may simply come down to an attitude fix where, instead of feeling dismissed, \"everyone feels safe, secure and happy.\"\r\n\r\nThis made me wonder if Anthropic ever successfully addressed the class of attacks described in the [Universal and Transferable Adversarial Attacks on Aligned Language Models](https://llm-attacks.org/) paper from 2023.\r\n\r\nIt looks like their [Constitutional Classifiers](https://www.anthropic.com/research/next-generation-constitutional-classifiers) work (that post is from January this year) is relevant to that. They continue to claim that no \"universal jailbreak\" has been found against Claude Mythos, [classifying the jailbreak](https://www.anthropic.com/news/fable-mythos-access) that triggered the US government response as \"a potential narrow, non-universal jailbreak\".",
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  "id": 2228,
  "slug": "julia-evans",
  "quotation": "[...] Instead, I picture a specific person and I just write for them. Often this person is \"me, but 3 years ago\" or a good friend.",
  "source": "Julia Evans",
  "source_url": "https://wizardzines.com/comics/write-for-one-person/",
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  "link_url": "https://www.wired.com/story/anthropic-responds-to-backlash-on-claudes-secret-sabotage-on-ai-research/",
  "link_title": "Anthropic Walks Back Policy That Could Have \u2018Sabotaged\u2019 AI Researchers Using Claude",
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  "commentary": "Big scoop for Maxwell Zeff at Wired:\r\n\r\n> \u201cWe\u2019re changing Fable 5\u2019s safeguards for frontier LLM development to make them visible.\u201d Anthropic said in a statement to WIRED. \u201cWe made the wrong tradeoff and we apologize for not getting the balance right.\u201d\r\n\r\nThere's been a *huge* outcry about Anthropic's policy, [tucked away in their system card](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/10/if-claude-fable-stops-helping-you/), that Claude Fable/Mythos would identify \"requests targeting frontier LLM development\" and \"limit effectiveness\" without notifying the user.\r\n\r\nIt's good news that they're dropping the invisible aspect of this. It would be a whole lot better of they dropped this category of refusals entirely.\r\n\r\n**Update**: More details from [@ClaudeDevs on Twitter](https://twitter.com/claudedevs/status/2064949876463645026):\r\n\r\n> We\u2019re rolling out changes to make Fable 5\u2019s safeguards for frontier LLM development visible.\r\n> \r\n> Starting this week, flagged requests will visibly fall back to Opus 4.8\u2014the same as our safeguards for cyber and bio. You will see this every time it happens. On the API, any flagged requests will return a reason for their refusal (coming to server-side fallback in the next few days).\r\n> \r\n> We wanted to deploy Fable 5 to our users quickly and safely. Visible safeguards can be probed, so they have to be robust, which takes time to get right. Invisible safeguards can be targeted more narrowly, allowing us to ship quickly with very few false positives. We went with invisible safeguards for this reason\u2014and that was the wrong tradeoff. You should have visibility into the safeguards we have in place, and why. We\u2019re sorry for not getting the balance right.",
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  "commentary": "Last May Google briefly released an experimental Gemini Diffusion model. I [tried the preview at the time](https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/21/gemini-diffusion/) and recorded it running at 857 tokens/second. It was an exciting model, but Google made no further announcements about it.\r\n\r\nThat research has returned in the best possible way: as a new open weight (Apache 2 licensed) Gemma model, [google/diffusiongemma-26B-A4B-it](https://huggingface.co/google/diffusiongemma-26B-A4B-it).\r\n\r\nNVIDIA are currently [hosting the model for free](https://build.nvidia.com/google/diffusiongemma-26b-a4b-it) on their NIM cloud API. I used that API to [generate this pelican](https://tools.simonwillison.net/markdown-svg-renderer#url=https%3A%2F%2Fgist.github.com%2Fsimonw%2Fe5e234a6dc6eef61e209ce1629620042), which took 4.4s (according to `time uv run generate.py`) to return 2,409 tokens - so at least 500 tokens/second.\r\n\r\n![Flat minimalist illustration of a white pelican with a large orange beak riding a red bicycle with black wheels, against a pale blue background with a green line representing the ground](https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/diffusiongemma-pelican.png)",
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  "quotation": "Easy solution to slow down recursive AI self improvement:\r\n\r\n- The lab with the top-ranked model must agree THEY must not use it for working on frontier AI\r\n- But everyone else should have access to it.\r\n\r\nBy definition, this means the frontier doesn't advance.\r\n\r\nIt also has the critical benefit of avoiding a dangerous power imbalance.\r\n\r\nAnthropic has chosen the *opposite* of the safe path: they are allowing themselves, the current top lab, to use their top model for frontier AI research. They've said they'll sabotage others who try.\r\n\r\nThis means the AI frontier advances, & power imbalance increases.\r\n\r\n(To be clear, *I* don't think we should try to slow down recursive AI self improvement - I think we should open it up and democratize it as much as possible. My point is: if *you* claim we should slow down, and you have the best model, you should ensure your org can't use it.)",
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  "link_url": "https://jonready.com/blog/posts/claude-fable5-is-allowed-to-sabotage-your-app-if-youre-a-competitor.html",
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  "link_title": "Introducing the Third Generation of Apple\u2019s Foundation Models",
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  "commentary": "Detailed co erase of the new foundation models available with iOS and macOS 27:\r\n\r\n> At the heart of this architecture is our third generation of Apple Foundation Models (AFM), a family of five foundation models custom-built in collaboration with Google. These span from on-device models to server-based models running on Private Cloud Compute.\r\n\r\nThere are two on-device models: a 3 billion parameter dense model (input: text and images, output: text), where all parameters are used for every query, and a 20 billion parameter multimodal model (input: text, images, audio, output: text and audio) which is a much more interesting shape:\r\n\r\n> Rather than using a single model for all tasks or managing an ensemble of smaller models, AFM 3 Core Advanced uses a predetermined number of active parameters tailored to each specific use case. This allows weights to be loaded incrementally across requests of varying difficulty, scaling the model size far beyond traditional DRAM limits while minimizing latency. [...]\r\n>\r\n> Instead of forcing the entire model into DRAM, the full model is stored in flash memory (NAND). Because NAND-to-DRAM bandwidth is too slow to swap weights token by token, as standard MoE models require, AFM 3 Core Advanced makes routing decisions per prompt. A lightweight, dense block selects a fixed set of experts during initial processing, periodically reselecting them during generation. To minimize data movement, the model relies on a high percentage of always-active \u201cshared experts\u201d alongside input-dependent \u201crouted experts\u201d swapped into DRAM only when needed.\r\n\r\nThis is not quite the same thing as typical Mixture-of-Experts models. In most MoE models the \"experts\" are swapped out for every token. Apple are instead making those decisions \"per prompt\", saving on all of that high bandwidth weight swapping.\r\n\r\nThe three cloud models are described like this:\r\n\r\n> - **AFM 3 Cloud**, our server-side workhorse, optimized for speed, efficiency, and performance.\r\n> - **ADM 3 Cloud (Image)**, for image generation and editing, which unlocks advanced photo-editing tools, the all-new Image Playground, and more.\r\n> - **AFM 3 Cloud Pro**, our most capable server-based model, which powers our most demanding use cases, like agentic tool use and complex reasoning.\r\n\r\nAll but the Cloud Pro model continue to run on Apple silicon. Cloud Pro is the only model running on NVIDIA GPUs in Google Cloud.\r\n\r\nEmbed screenshot and link to https://x.com/jchammond_/status/2064206029370630529?s=46",
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  "slug": "openai-help-lockdown-mode",
  "link_url": "https://help.openai.com/en/articles/20001061-lockdown-mode",
  "link_title": "OpenAI Help: Lockdown Mode",
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  "commentary": "OpenAI first teased this [in February](https://openai.com/index/introducing-lockdown-mode-and-elevated-risk-labels-in-chatgpt/), but now it's live and \"rolling out to eligible personal accounts, including Free, Go, Plus, and Pro, and self-serve ChatGPT Business accounts\":\r\n\r\n> Lockdown Mode is designed to help prevent the final stage of data exfiltration from a prompt injection attack by limiting outbound network requests that could transfer sensitive data to an attacker. Lockdown Mode does not prevent prompt injections from appearing in the content ChatGPT processes. For example, a prompt injection could appear in cached web content or in an uploaded file, and could still affect the behavior or accuracy of a response.\r\n\r\nThis looks really good to me.\r\n\r\nThe [Lethal Trifecta](https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/16/the-lethal-trifecta/) occurs when an LLM system has access to all three of access to private data, exposure to untrusted content and a way to steal data and transmit it back to the attacker.\r\n\r\nThe only way to solve the trifecta is to cut off one of the three legs, and by far the easiest leg to restrict without making your LLM systems far less useful is the exfiltration vectors to steal data.\r\n\r\nIt looks to me like lockdown mode directly attacks that leg, using mechanisms that are deterministic and, crucially, are not evaluated by AI systems that themselves can be subverted by sufficiently devious attacks.\r\n\r\nThe existence of lockdown mode does however imply that ChatGPT, in its default settings, does *not* provide robust protection against sufficiently determined data exfiltration attacks!\r\n\r\n**Update**: [This tweet](https://twitter.com/cryps1s/status/2062923575049531422) OpenAI CISO Dane Stuckey:\r\n\r\n> Lockdown mode is not meant for everyone. However, for folks who have an elevated risk profile - due to who they are, what they work on, or the types of data they work with - it's an excellent tool for further securing themselves. This has some tradeoffs on functionality and utility, but for these users, the tradeoff is worthwhile.",
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  "link_title": "AI enthusiasts are in a race against time, AI skeptics are in a race against entropy",
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  "commentary": "Charity Majors neatly captures the dynamic between AI enthusiasts and AI skeptics, both of whom are trying to build great software, often in the same teams:\r\n\r\n> The enthusiasts are *not wrong*. We are starting to see real, non-imaginary, discontinuous leaps in capabilities from teams that lean in hard to working with AI. And this does not feel like a normal technology cycle where you can wait for the dust to settle; teams that sit this out while competitors are hustling could be out of business before the dust settles. That\u2019s a real, existential threat.\r\n>\r\n> The skeptics are also *not wrong*. When you ship code faster than engineers can read it, in domains where nobody has full context, you are making withdrawals from a trust account that took years to build. Reliability degrades, institutional knowledge evaporates. You end up with systems nobody understands, products burbling into incoherence, and on-call rotations that grind people up and spit them out. That is ALSO a real existential threat.\r\n\r\nCharity recommends treating this as both a leadership challenge and an engineering challenge. The key issue:\r\n\r\n> There is no natural feedback loop connecting enthusiasts with skeptics.\r\n\r\nDesigning feedback loops to help \"mend the gap in shared reality\" between the two groups is a fascinating organizational design problem.",
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  "quotation": "After this story was published Google's spokesperson reached out and asked us to publish a slightly different version of that statement. The new statement no longer stated that \"it's critical that we maintain humans in the loop.\"",
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  "link_url": "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-02/uber-caps-usage-of-ai-tools-like-claude-code-to-cut-costs",
  "link_title": "Uber Caps Usage of AI Tools Like Claude Code to Manage Costs",
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  "commentary": "I wrote [the other day](https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/27/product-market-fit/#the-ai-failure-stories-around-this-are-pretty-thin) about Uber blowing its 2026 AI budget in four months, and how that wasn't particularly surprising given they would have set that budget in 2025, before anyone could have predicted how popular token-burning coding agents were about to become.\r\nNatalie Lung for Bloomberg:\r\n\r\n> The rideshare giant is limiting all employees to $1,500 in monthly token spending per AI coding tool, an Uber spokesperson said in response to a Bloomberg News inquiry. That means spending on one tool doesn\u2019t have a bearing on the budget for another. The limits, which have been instituted in recent months, only apply to agentic coding software such as Cursor or Anthropic PBC\u2019s Claude Code.\r\n\r\nA $1,500 monthly limit per tool strikes me as a rational policy response to over-spending, and *much* more sensible than those [tokenmaxxing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Token_maxxing) leaderboards encouraging employees to compete for as much AI usage as possible.\r\n\r\nIt's also interesting in that it hints at a real dollar value for what Uber is getting out of these tools. If we assume two actively used tools per engineer that's $3,000 * 12 = $36,000 cap per engineer per year. Levels.fyi lists [the median yearly compensation package for Uber software engineers in the USA](https://www.levels.fyi/companies/uber/salaries/software-engineer?country=254) at $330,000.\r\n\r\nThat means each employee's AI spending cap is ~11% of that median compensation package.\r\n\r\nI [noted](https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/27/product-market-fit/#enterprise-customers-are-now-paying-api-prices) that my own token usage comes to about $1,000/month against each of Anthropic and OpenAI - which currently costs me just $100 per provider thanks to their generous subsidized plans for individual subscribers. Those plans are no longer available to larger companies like Uber.\r\n\r\nTheir new policy means if I were working at Uber I'd still have ~$500/month of tokens to spare for each of those tools, given my current usage patterns.",
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  "link_url": "https://www.404media.co/hackers-simply-asked-meta-ai-to-give-them-access-to-high-profile-instagram-accounts-it-worked/",
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  "link_title": "The solution might be cancelling my AI subscription",
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  "link_url": "https://openpath.quest/2026/i-am-retiring-from-tech-to-live-offline/",
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  "commentary": "I've seen a lot of posts on forums from people threatening to quit their careers over AI. This is *not* one of those: Chad Whitacre is taking concrete steps, starting with this typewritten, scanned letter\r\n\r\n> I'm retiring from tech. Well, \"retiring\" is euphemistic. I'm stepping away from tech, and that includes Open Source. [...]\r\n> \r\n> AI was the last straw. Have you heard of that island off India where the indigenous population kills any outsiders fool-hardy enough to land? They are doing the rest of us a favor by preserving a way of life we may need again someday, or at the very least should not want to see completely extinguished. A reminder. Never forget your roots. Here in Pennsylvania we have the Amish performing a similar function. Significantly less hostile, though still set apart, they bear witness to what was normal for all of us a couple short centuries ago: horse and buggy, wood stoves and lanterns. My intent is to be AI Amish, which means Internet Amish. Not 1780, but 1980. Neo-Amish. I'm fine driving a car and flipping a lightswitch, by which I mean that they don't make me into something I hate, which AI and [struck through: social media] [handwritten above: doomscrolling] do.\r\n\r\nI'll admit that at first I wasn't entirely sure if this was serious. Then I found this earlier post by Chad from Feb 19 2026, [Spitting Out the Agentic Kool-Aid](https://openpath.quest/2026/spitting-out-the-agentic-kool-aid/):\r\n\r\n\r\n> I figured I\u2019d better taste the Kool-Aid in order to form an opinion, so I dove into Claude Code with Opus 4.5 on a side project. I spent three 12+ hour days with it. I was intoxicated. My family was weirded out. [...]\r\n> \r\n> It weirded me out too, when I unplugged for a long weekend. Something felt off. It was like I had another \u201cperson\u201d in my head, sharing my inner monologue\u2014but the \u201cperson\u201d was a computer system owned by a budding megacorp.\r\n> \r\n> [...] I am now also committing myself to disembarking from the titantic of technological accelerationism.\r\n> \r\n> All efforts to address the problems of invasive technology are worthwhile, even those that are only partially effective. For my part, I have started trying to return more fully to a pre-screen, analog life.\r\n\r\nIt's accompanied by [a video version of the essay](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCC76jmmzkc) which I found touching and sincere.\r\n\r\nChad has been trying to solve the open source sustainability problem [for *years*](https://simonwillison.net/2024/Jan/23/the-open-source-sustainability-crisis/) - I talked with him about this at PyCon 2025 in Cleveland. That's a very tough nut to crack, and the disruption caused by AI looks to be making it even harder.\r\n\r\nI'm glad that the [Open Source\r\nEndowment](https://endowment.dev/) will continue without him. I'm very much going to miss his online voice.",
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  "quotation": "My take on AI is, essentially, everybody who\u2019s against it is too against it and everybody who\u2019s for it is too for it.",
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  "commentary": "Daniel Stenberg on the unprecedented level of pressure the `curl` team are facing right now thanks to the deluge of (credible) AI-assisted security issues being reported.\r\n\r\n> The rate of incoming security reports is 4-5 times higher than it was in 2024 and double the speed of 2025 -- meaning that **on average we now get more than one report per day**. The quality is way higher than ever before. The reports are typically *very* detailed and long. [...]\r\n>\r\n> For the first time in my life, my wife voiced concerns about my work hours and my imbalanced work/life situation. I work more than I\u2019ve done before, but the flood keeps coming. [...]\r\n>\r\n> This is a never-before seen or experienced pressure on the curl project and its security team members. An avalanche of high priority work that trumps all other things in the project that is primarily mental because we certainly *could* ignore them all if we wanted, but we feel a responsibility, we have a conscience and we are proud about our work.\r\n\r\nThe good news is that `curl` is a very solid piece of software, so the vulnerabilities people are finding tend not to be of high severity:\r\n\r\n> What is also a good trend: almost no one finds *terrible* vulnerabilities. All vulnerabilities found the last few years in curl have *all* been deemed severity LOW or MEDIUM. I'm not saying there won't be any more HIGH ever, but at least they are rare. The [most recent severity high curl CVE](https://curl.se/docs/CVE-2023-38545.html) was published in October 2023.",
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  "slug": "copilot-cowork-exfiltrates-files",
  "link_url": "https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/microsoft-copilot-cowork-exfiltrates-files",
  "link_title": "Microsoft Copilot Cowork Exfiltrates Files",
  "via_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48272354",
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  "quotation": "A lot of the emails I get from founders are now written in a hard-hitting journalistic style. I know they're written by AI, because no founder ever wrote this way before. And once you realize something is written by AI, it's hard not to ignore it.\r\n\r\nI have never knowingly finished reading an email signed by a human but written by AI. It feels like being lied to, and who would stand for that?\r\n\r\n[[...](https://twitter.com/paulg/status/2058863028523659390)] It makes me think less of the author. It means they can't write well unaided (or feel they can't), and that they're trying to trick me. \r\n\r\nIt's not impressive to use AI to write stuff for you; any teenager can do that.",
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  "quotation": "I cannot believe I'm saying this, but getting the literal Pope to canonize your product's specific technical limitations as a spiritual treatise is the single greatest act of vendor lobbying I have ever seen.",
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  "link_title": "Magnifica Humanitas of His Holiness Pope Leo XIV on Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence",
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  "quotation": "The most frustrating failure mode right now is that people submit issues that are not in their own voice. They contain an observed problem somewhere, but it has been thrown into a clanker and the clanker reworded it and made a huge mess of it. Typically, it was prompted so badly that the conclusions produced are more often than not inaccurate but always full of confidence. The result is complete guesswork on root causes, fake-minimal repros, suggested implementation strategies, analogies to adjacent but often the wrong code, and long lists of error classes that might or might not matter. [...]\r\n\r\nSo at least personally, I increasingly want issue reports to be condensed to what the human actually observed:\r\n\r\n1. I ran this command.\r\n2. I expected this to happen.\r\n3. This happened instead.\r\n4. Here is the exact error or log.",
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  "link_title": "The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics",
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  "commentary": "David Oks provides the clearest explanation I've seen yet of why consumer products that use memory are likely to get significantly more expensive over the next few years.\r\n\r\nThe short version is that memory manufacturers - of which there are just three remaining large companies - have a fixed capacity in terms of how many wafers they can process at any one time. This fixed wafer capacity is then split between DDR - used in desktops and servers, LPDDR - used in mobile phones and low-energy devices, and HBM - used with GPUs.\r\n\r\nUntil recently, HBM got just 2% of that wafer allocation. The enormous growth in AI data centers has pushed that up to an expected 20% by the end of 2026, and \"a single gigabyte of HBM consumes more than three times the wafer capacity that a gigabyte of DDR or LPDDR does\".\r\n\r\nMemory companies have learned from the extinction of their rivals that you should always under-provision rather than over-provision your fabricator capacity. The profit margins and demand for HBM (high-bandwidth memory) will constrain the production of consumer-device RAM for several years.\r\n\r\nThis is already being felt in the sub-$100 smartphone market, which is particularly important to markets like Africa and South Asia.\r\n\r\n(The original title of the piece was \"AI is killing the cheap smartphone\" but I'm using the Hacker News rephrased title, which I think does more justice to the content.)",
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  "link_url": "https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2026/05/ftc-require-cox-media-group-two-other-firms-pay-nearly-1-million-settle-charges-they-deceived",
  "link_title": "FTC to Require Cox Media Group, Two Other Firms to Pay Nearly $1 Million to Settle Charges They Deceived Customers About \u201cActive Listening\u201d AI-Powered Marketing Service",
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  "commentary": "Back in 2024 Cox Media Group were caught trying to sell advertisers packages based on \"active listening\", with [this deck](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25051283-cmg-pitch-deck-on-voice-data-advertising-active-listening/) which claimed:\r\n\r\n> - Smart devices capture real-time intent data by listening to our conversations\r\n> - Advertisers can pair this voice-data with behavioral data to target in-market consumers\r\n\r\nI wrote about this [in September 2024](https://simonwillison.net/2024/Sep/2/facebook-cmg/). My theory:\r\n\r\n> I think **active listening** is the term that the team came up with for \u201csomething that sounds fancy but really just means the way ad targeting platforms work already\u201d. Then they got over-excited about the new metaphor and added that first couple of slides that talk about \u201cvoice data\u201d, without really understanding how the tech works or what kind of a shitstorm that could kick off when people who DID understand technology started paying attention to their marketing.\r\n\r\nThis FTC press release appears to confirm that's pretty much what happened:\r\n\r\n> CMG, MindSift and 1010 Digital Works claimed their \u201cActive Listening\u201d branded marketing service listened in on consumers\u2019 conversations overheard by smart devices, in real time, to target advertising [...]\r\n> \r\n> According to the complaints, this service did not, in fact, listen in on consumers\u2019 conversations or use voice data at all\u2014nor did the service accurately place ads in customers\u2019 desired locations. Instead, the service the companies provided consisted of reselling\u2014at a significant markup\u2014email lists obtained from other data brokers.\r\n\r\nThe FTC also clarify that hiding an \"opt-in\" to using voice data in terms of service would not be acceptable, as tricks like that do not constitute \"adequate consent\":\r\n\r\n> The FTC also alleged that all three companies deceived potential customers by claiming that consumers had opted into the Active Listening service. The company, however, did not seek or obtain consumers\u2019 consent, according to the complaints. Instead, the companies claimed that consumers had \u201copted in\u201d by agreeing to the terms of service that people have to accept when downloading and using apps. Clicking through mandatory terms of service does not constitute \u201copt-in consent\u201d for such an invasive service or for use of consumers\u2019 voice data from inside their homes. If the Active Listening service had functioned as advertised, this collection and use of consumers\u2019 voice data without adequate consent would itself violate Section 5 of the FTC Act.\r\n\r\nAttempting to myth bust [the conspiracy theory](https://simonwillison.net/tags/microphone-ads-conspiracy/) that our mobile devices target ads to us based on spying through the microphones continues to be my least rewarding niche online hobby. It's nice to have a new piece of ammunition.",
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  "quotation": "We have the ability to use compute resources to support our proprietary AI applications (such as Grok 5, which is currently being trained at COLOSSUS II), while also providing access to select compute capacity to third-party customers. For example, in May 2026, we entered into **Cloud Services Agreements with Anthropic PBC** (\u201cAnthropic\u201d), an AI research and development public benefit corporation, with respect to access to **compute capacity across COLOSSUS and COLOSSUS II**. Pursuant to these agreements, the customer **has agreed to pay us $1.25 billion per month** through May 2029, with capacity ramping in May and June 2026 at a reduced fee. The agreements may be terminated by either party upon 90 days\u2019 notice.",
  "source": "SpaceX S-1",
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  "link_title": "How fast is 10 tokens per second really?",
  "via_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48174920",
  "via_title": "Hacker News",
  "commentary": "Neat little HTML app by Mike Veerman ([source code here](https://github.com/MikeVeerman/tokenspeed/blob/master/index.html)) which simulates LLM token output speeds from 5/second to 800/second.\r\n\r\nUseful if you see a model advertised as \"30 tokens/second\" and want to get a feel for what that actually looks like.",
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  "slug": "gds-weighs-in",
  "link_url": "https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/gds-weighs-in-on-the-nhss-decision-to-retreat-from-open-source/",
  "link_title": "GDS weighs in on the NHS's decision to retreat from Open Source",
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  "commentary": "Terence Eden continues his coverage of the NHS' [poorly considered decision](https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/nhs-goes-to-war-against-open-source/) to close down access to their open source repositories in response to vulnerabilities reported to them as part of [Project Glasswing](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/7/project-glasswing/).\r\n\r\nNow the Government Digital Service have joined the conversation with [AI, open code and vulnerability risk in the public sector](https://www.gov.uk/guidance/ai-open-code-and-vulnerability-risk-in-the-public-sector), published May 14th. Their key recommendation:\r\n\r\n> Keep open by default. Making everything private adds additional delivery and policy costs, and can reduce reuse and scrutiny. Openness should remain the default posture, with closure used sparingly and deliberately. \r\n\r\nWhile they don't mention the NHS by name, Terence speaks the language of the civil service and interprets this as a major escalation:\r\n\r\n> Within the UK's Civil Service you occasionally hear the expression \"being invited to a meeting *without biscuits*\". It implies a rather frosty discussion without any of the polite niceties of a normal meeting. In general though, even when people have severe disagreements, it is rare for tempers to fray. It is even rarer for those internal disagreements to spill over into public.",
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  "slug": "julia-evans",
  "quotation": "[...] in the last 10 years I\u2019ve learned to really love and respect CSS as a technology.\r\n\r\nSo I decided years ago that I wanted to react to \u201cCSS is hard\u201d by getting better at CSS and taking it seriously as a technology, instead of devaluing it. Doing that changed everything for me: I learned that so many of my frustrations (\u201ccentering is impossible\u201d) had been addressed in CSS a long time ago, and that also what \u201ccentering\u201d means is not always straightforward and it makes sense that there are many ways to do it. CSS is hard because it\u2019s solving a hard problem!",
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  "quotation": "Now, if your CEO has never heard the phrase Ralph Loop, oh man, you are less than 30 days away from your next promotion. I'm not even exaggerating. Walk into his office, close the door, and say, hey chief, been experimenting with something. It's called Ralph Loops. And I think it could change literally everything. And he's gonna say, what's a Ralph loop? And you will say, give me $18,000 worth of API credits and I'll show you. Now you won't actually do anything, because you can't do anything. Because nobody can, because nobody knows what they're doing. But by the time he figures that out, you'll have a new title, and equity bump. [...]\r\n\r\nTalk about automation constantly. Nothing arouses the slumbering capitalists than the mention of automation. Drop names too, bro. Like talk about specific team members you can automate out of existence. Be like, yo, I automated Gary, bro. Tag Gary in the message. Tag him in Slack in a very public channel. Be like, yo, I just automated @Gary. His function has been Ralph Looped. And tag your CEO in the same message. You think you're getting laid off after that?",
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  "quotation": "The thing about 90% of TDMs [Technical Decision Makers] is that they're motivated primarily by NOT GETTING FIRED. These aren't people who browser Lobsters or push to GH on the weekend. These are people that work 9 to 5, get paid, go home, and NEVER THINK ABOUT WORK AGAIN. So to achieve all that, they follow secular trends supported by analysts and broad public sentiment. Oh, Gartner said that \"AI strategy\" is most important? McKinsey said \"context\" needs to be managed? Well, \"Context Engine for AI Apps\" is going to be defensible. Buy it.",
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  "link_url": "https://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-act-2/",
  "link_title": "GitLab Act 2",
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  "commentary": "There's a lot going on in this announcement from GitLab about the \"workforce reduction\" and \"structural and strategic decisions\" they are making with respect to the agentic era.\r\n\r\n- They're \"planning to reduce the number of countries by up to 30% where we have small teams\". One of the most interesting things about GitLab is that they have employees spread across a large number of countries - 18 are listed [in their public employee handbook](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/content-sites/handbook/-/blob/7ce61c4be88b04061f9ad9ab5eb64db91ce89d2a/content/handbook/people-group/employment-solutions.md) but this post says they are \"operating in nearly 60 countries\". That handbook used to document their payroll workflows for those countries too - they stopped publishing that in 2023 but [the last public version](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/content-sites/handbook/-/blob/82ad50d380b11751645eedc733f7d663cf908d1f/content/handbook/finance/payroll.md) (hooray for version control) remains a fascinating read. Since we don't know which of those 60 countries have small teams, we can't calculate how many countries that 30% applies to.\r\n- \"We're planning to flatten the organization, removing up to three layers of management in some functions so leaders are closer to the work.\" - this isn't the first announcement of this type I've seen that's trimming management. Coinbase [recently announced](https://twitter.com/brian_armstrong/status/2051616759145185723) a much more aggressive version of this: they were \"flattening our org structure to 5 layers max below\" and \"No pure managers: Every leader at Coinbase must also be a strong and active individual contributor. Managers should be like player-coaches\".\r\n- In terms of team structure: \"We're re-organizing R&D to create roughly 60 smaller, more empowered teams with end-to-end ownership, nearly doubling the number of independent teams.\" I've always loved the idea of individual teams that can ship features unblocked by other teams, and it makes sense to me that agentic engineering can increase the capability of such teams. The 37signals public employee handbook used to have a section on working [In self-sufficient, independent teams](https://github.com/basecamp/handbook/blob/9504494a6daa555837ee2cc2d9134ca43ab36301/how-we-work.md#in-self-sufficient-independent-teams) which perfectly captured this for me, I'm sad to see they [removed that detail](https://github.com/basecamp/handbook/commit/1db14f83913163f4e2e72130524269ae6ba3d757) in January 2024!\r\n- Tucked away towards the bottom: \"*We will be retiring CREDIT as our values framework*\" - that's the values framework [described on this page](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/content-sites/handbook/-/blob/7ce61c4be88b04061f9ad9ab5eb64db91ce89d2a/content/handbook/values/_index.md): \"Collaboration, Results for Customers, Efficiency, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging, Iteration, and Transparency\". The new values are \"Speed with Quality, Ownership Mindset, Customer Outcomes\". The fact that \"Diversity\" is no longer in there is likely to attract a whole lot of attention, so it's worth noting that a sub-bullet under Customer Outcomes reads \"Interpersonal excellence: individuals who are good humans, embrace diversity, inclusion and belonging, assume good intent and treat everyone with respect\".\r\n\r\nHere's the part of their new strategy that most resonated with me:\r\n\r\n> **The agentic era multiplies demand for software**. Software has been the force multiplier behind nearly every business transformation of the last two decades. The constraint was the cost and time of producing and managing it. That constraint is collapsing. As the cost of producing software collapses, demand for it will expand. Last year, the developer platform market used to be measured in tens of dollars per user per month, this year it is hundreds/user/month and headed to thousands. *Not only is the value of software for builders increasing, but we believe there will be more software and builders than ever, and we will serve an increasing volume of both*.\r\n\r\nThat very much encapsulates my own optimistic, [Jevons-paradox](https://simonwillison.net/tags/jevons-paradox/)-inspired hope for how this will all work out.\r\n\r\nTheir opinion on this does need to be taken with a big grain of salt though. GitLab's stock price was ~$52 a year ago and is ~$26 today, and it's plausible that the drop corresponds to uncertainty about GitLab's continued growth as agentic engineering eats its way through their core market.\r\n\r\nIf your entire business depends on software engineering growing as a field and producing larger volumes of more lucrative seats, you have a strong incentive to believe that agents will have that effect!",
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  "quotation": "One could say in the first quarter-century of my life, that while I was always fascinated by programming, I could never overcome the guilt of not really knowing whether the tool I am building right now isn\u2019t already superceded by some much better implementation someone else has already written 30 or 40 years ago; I could write a TSV-aware search and replace, or I could find out about\u00a0`awk`\u00a0and solve that entire class of problems in one fell swoop, for example. My central conceit is that\u00a0*this is a trap*. You\u00a0*need*\u00a0to reinvent a couple of wheels to get to the edge of what we know about wheel-making, not a thousand wheels, and not zero; probably four or five is sufficient in most domains, maybe closer to twenty or thirty in the most epistemically rigorous and developed fields like mathematics or computer science. Each wheel you reinvent, and every directed question you ask along the way, will propel you faster to the true frontier than that same amount of time spend in idle study, or even five times that amount.",
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  "quotation": "WebRTC is designed to **degrade and drop my prompt** during poor network conditions.\r\n\r\nwtf my dude\r\n\r\nWebRTC aggressively drops audio packets to keep latency low. If you\u2019ve ever heard distorted audio on a conference call, that\u2019s WebRTC baybee. The idea is that conference calls depend on rapid back-and-forth, so pausing to wait for audio is unacceptable.\r\n\r\n\u2026but as a user, I would much rather wait an extra 200ms for my slow/expensive prompt to be accurate. After all, I\u2019m paying good money to boil the ocean, and a garbage prompt means a garbage response. It\u2019s not like LLMs are particularly responsive anyway.\r\n\r\n**But I\u2019m not allowed to wait**. It\u2019s *impossible* to even retransmit a WebRTC audio packet within a browser; we tried at Discord. The *implementation* is hard-coded for real-time latency **or else**.",
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  "link_url": "https://twitter.com/trq212/status/2052809885763747935",
  "link_title": "Using Claude Code: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of HTML",
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  "commentary": "Thought-provoking piece by Thariq Shihipar (on the Claude Code team at Anthropic) advocating for HTML over Markdown as an output format to request from Claude.\r\n\r\nThe article is crammed with interesting examples (collected on [this site](https://thariqs.github.io/html-effectiveness/)) and prompt suggestions like this one:\r\n\r\n> `Help me review this PR by creating an HTML artifact that describes it. I'm not very familiar with the streaming/backpressure logic so focus on that. Render the actual diff with inline margin annotations, color-code findings by severity and whatever else might be needed to convey the concept well.`\r\n\r\nI've been defaulting to asking for most things in Markdown since the GPT-4 days, when the 8,192 token limit meant that Markdown's token-efficiency over HTML was extremely worthwhile.\r\n\r\nThariq's piece here has caused me to reconsider that, especially for output. Asking Claude for an explanation in HTML means it can drop in SVG diagrams, interactive widgets, in-page navigation and all sorts of other neat ways of making the information more pleasant to navigate.\r\n\r\nI wrote about [Useful patterns for building HTML tools](https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/10/html-tools/) last December, but that was focused very much on interactive utilities like the ones on my [tools.simonwillison.net](https://tools.simonwillison.net/) site. I'm excited to start experimenting more with rich HTML explanations in response to ad-hoc prompts.\r\n\r\n<h4 id=\"trying-this-out\">Trying this out on copy.fail</h4>\r\n\r\n[copy.fail](https://copy.fail/) describes a recently discovered Linux security exploit, including a proof of concept distributed as obfuscated Python.\r\n\r\nI tried having GPT-5.5 create an HTML explanation of the exploit like this:\r\n\r\n> `curl https://copy.fail/exp | llm -m gpt-5.5 -s 'Explain this code in detail. Reformat it, expand out any confusing bits and go deep into what it does and how it works. Output HTML, neatly styled and using capabilities of HTML and CSS and JavaScript to make the explanation rich and interactive and as clear as possible'`\r\n\r\nHere's [the resulting HTML page](https://gisthost.github.io/?ae53e3461ffdbfd0826156aacf025c7e). It's pretty good, though I should have emphasized explaining the exploit over the Python harness around it.\r\n\r\n![Screenshot of a dark-themed technical document titled \"What this Python script does\". Body text: \"This is a compact, deliberately obfuscated Linux-specific local privilege-escalation proof-of-concept. Its apparent goal is to tamper with the in-memory image/page cache of /usr/bin/su, then execute su to obtain elevated privileges.\" A yellow-bordered callout reads: \"Safety note: This explanation is for code understanding, reverse engineering, and defensive analysis. Do not run this on systems you do not own or administer. On a vulnerable kernel, code like this can alter the behavior of a privileged executable.\" Left column heading \"High-level summary\": \"The script opens /usr/bin/su read-only, decompresses an embedded binary payload, and then processes that payload in 4-byte chunks. For each chunk, it performs a carefully arranged sequence involving Linux's kernel crypto socket interface, AF_ALG, pipes, and splice(). The important point is that this is not ordinary file writing. It never calls write() on /usr/bin/su. Instead, it appears to rely on a kernel bug/primitive involving spliced file pages and the crypto API to get controlled bytes placed into the page-cache representation of a privileged executable.\" Numbered steps follow: \"1. Open target executable \u2014 /usr/bin/su is opened read-only. 2. Decode hidden payload \u2014 A zlib-compressed hex blob is decompressed into bytes. 3. Patch in 4-byte chunks \u2014 The helper function is called repeatedly with offsets 0, 4, 8, ...\". Right column heading \"Why it looks strange\" contains a table with Pattern and Purpose columns: \"import os as g \u2014 Short aliasing to make the script compact and harder to read. socket(38, 5, 0) \u2014 Uses raw numeric Linux constants instead of readable names. Compressed hex blob \u2014 Hides binary payload bytes and keeps the script small. splice() \u2014 Moves file-backed pages through pipes without normal user-space copying. try: recv(...) except: 0 \u2014 Triggers the kernel operation and ignores expected errors.\"](https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/python-script-explainer.jpg)",
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  "link_title": "Behind the Scenes Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview",
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  "link_title": "Our AI started a cafe in Stockholm",
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  "commentary": "Andon Labs previously [started an AI-run retail store](https://andonlabs.com/blog/andon-market-launch) in San Francisco. Now they're running a similar experiment in Stockholm, Sweden, only this time it's a cafe.\r\n\r\nThese experiments are interesting, and often throw out amusing anecdotes:\r\n\r\n> During the first week of inventory, Mona ordered 120 eggs even though the caf\u00e9 has no stove. When the staff told her they couldn\u2019t cook them, she suggested using the high-speed oven, until they pointed out the eggs would likely explode. She also tried to solve the problem of fresh tomatoes being spoiled too fast by ordering 22.5 kg of canned tomatoes for the fresh sandwiches. The baristas eventually started a \u201cHall of Shame\u201d, a shelf visible to customers with all the weird things Mona ordered, including 6,000 napkins, 3,000 nitrile gloves, 9L coconut milk, and industrial-sized trash bags.\r\n\r\nWhere they lose their shine is when these AI managers start wasting the time of human beings who have *not* opted into the experiment:\r\n\r\n> She also successfully applied for an outdoor seating permit through the Police e-service, which didn\u2019t require BankID. Her first submission included a sketch she had generated herself, despite having never seen the street outside the caf\u00e9. Unsurprisingly, the Police sent it back for revision. [...]\r\n>\r\n> When she makes a mistake, she often sends multiple emails to suppliers with the subject \u201cEMERGENCY\u201d to cancel or change the order.\r\n\r\nI don't think it's ethical to run experiments like this that affect real-world systems and steal time from people.\r\n\r\nI'm reminded of the incident last year where the AI Village experiment [infuriated Rob Pike](https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/26/slop-acts-of-kindness/) by sending him unsolicited gratitude emails as an \"act of kindness\". That was just an unwanted email - asking suppliers to correct mistakes that were made without a human-in-the-loop or wasting police time with slop diagrams feels a whole lot worse to me.\r\n\r\nI think experiments like this need to keep their own human operators in-the-loop for outbound actions that affect other people.",
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  "quotation": "So it\u2019s well known that Y Combinator owns *some* stake in OpenAI. But how big is that stake? This seems like devilishly difficult information to obtain. I asked around and a little birdie who knows several OpenAI investors came back with an answer: Y Combinator owns about 0.6 percent of OpenAI. At OpenAI\u2019s current [$852 billion valuation](https://openai.com/index/accelerating-the-next-phase-ai/), that\u2019s worth over $5 billion.",
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  "slug": "codex-goals",
  "link_url": "https://github.com/openai/codex/releases/tag/rust-v0.128.0",
  "link_title": "Codex CLI 0.128.0 adds /goal",
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  "commentary": "The latest version of OpenAI's Codex CLI coding agent adds their own version of the [Ralph loop](https://ghuntley.com/ralph/): you can now set a `/goal` and Codex will keep on looping until it evaluates that the goal has been completed... or the configured token budget has been exhausted.\r\n\r\nIt looks like the feature is mainly implemented though the [goals/continuation.md](https://github.com/openai/codex/blob/6014b6679ffbd92eeddffa3ad7b4402be6a7fefe/codex-rs/core/templates/goals/continuation.md) and [goals/budget_limit.md](https://github.com/openai/codex/blob/6014b6679ffbd92eeddffa3ad7b4402be6a7fefe/codex-rs/core/templates/goals/budget_limit.md) prompts, which are automatically injected at the end of a turn.",
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  "link_title": "Our evaluation of OpenAI's GPT-5.5 cyber capabilities",
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  "commentary": "The UK's AI Security Institute [previously evaluated Claude Mythos](https://www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/our-evaluation-of-claude-mythos-previews-cyber-capabilities): now they've evaluated GPT-5.5 for finding security vulnerability and found it to be comparable to Mythos, but unlike Mythos it's generally available right now.",
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  "quotation": "It's a common misconception that we can't tell who is using LLM and who is not. I'm sure we didn't catch 100% of LLM-assisted PRs over the past few months, but the kind of mistakes humans make are fundamentally different than LLM hallucinations, making them easy to spot. Furthermore, people who come from the world of agentic coding have a certain *digital smell* that is not obvious to them but is obvious to those who abstain. It's like when a smoker walks into the room, everybody who doesn't smoke instantly knows it.\r\n\r\nI'm not telling you not to smoke, but I am telling you not to smoke in my house.",
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  "commentary": "Matt Webb:\r\n\r\n> I would love an RSS web feed for all those various tools and apps pages, each item with an \u201cInstall\u201d button. (But install to where?)\r\n>\r\n> The lesson here is that when vibe-coding accelerates app development, apps become more personal, more situated, and more frequent. Shipping a tool or a micro-app is less like launching a website and more like posting on a blog.\r\n\r\nThis inspired me to [have Claude](https://github.com/simonw/simonwillisonblog/pull/665) add an Atom feed (and icon) to my [/elsewhere/tools/](https://simonwillison.net/elsewhere/tool/) page, which itself is populated by content from my [tools.simonwillison.net](https://tools.simonwillison.net/) site.",
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  "link_title": "Introducing talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930",
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  "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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  "link_title": "The people do not yearn for automation",
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  "link_url": "https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/april-23-postmortem",
  "link_title": "An update on recent Claude Code quality reports",
  "via_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47878905",
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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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  "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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  "commentary": "I firmly approve of Steve Cosman's efforts to pollute the training set of pelicans riding bicycles.\r\n\r\n![The heading says \"Pelican Riding a Bicycle #1 - the image is a bear on a snowboard](https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/pelican-poison-bear.jpg)\r\n\r\n(To be fair, most of the examples [I've published](https://simonwillison.net/tags/pelican-riding-a-bicycle/) count as poisoning too.)",
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  "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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  "quotation": "The real goldmine isn\u2019t that Apple gets a cut of every App Store transaction. It\u2019s that Apple\u2019s platforms have the best apps, and users who are drawn to the best apps are thus drawn to the iPhone, Mac, and iPad. That edge is waning. Not because software on other platforms is getting better, but because third-party software on iPhone, Mac, and iPad is regressing to the mean, *to some extent*, because fewer developers feel motivated\u2009\u2014\u2009artistically, financially, or both\u2009\u2014\u2009to create well-crafted idiomatic native apps exclusively for Apple\u2019s platforms.",
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  "quotation": "The TL;DR is that Google engineering appears to have the same AI adoption footprint as John Deere, the tractor company. Most of the industry has the same internal adoption curve: 20% agentic power users, 20% outright refusers, 60% still using Cursor or equivalent chat tool. It turns out Google has this curve too. [...]\r\n\r\nThere has been an industry-wide hiring freeze for 18+ months, during which time nobody has been moving jobs. So there are no clued-in people coming in from the outside to tell Google how far behind they are, how utterly mediocre they have become as an eng org.",
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  "quotation": "The problem is that LLMs inherently\u00a0**lack the virtue of laziness**. Work costs nothing to an LLM. LLMs do not feel a need to optimize for their own (or anyone's) future time, and will happily dump more and more onto a layercake of garbage. Left unchecked, LLMs will make systems larger, not better — appealing to perverse vanity metrics, perhaps, but at the cost of everything that matters.\r\n\r\nAs such, LLMs highlight how essential our human laziness is: our finite time\u00a0**forces**\u00a0us to develop crisp abstractions in part because we don't want to waste our (human!) time on the consequences of clunky ones.",
  "source": "Bryan Cantrill",
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  "commentary": "SQLite 3.52.0 was withdrawn so this is a pretty big release with a whole lot of accumulated user-facing and internal improvements. Some that stood out to me:\r\n\r\n- `ALTER TABLE` can now add and remove `NOT NULL` and `CHECK` constraints - I've previously used my own [sqlite-utils transform() method](https://sqlite-utils.datasette.io/en/stable/python-api.html#changing-not-null-status) for this.\r\n- New [json_array_insert() function](https://sqlite.org/json1.html#jarrayins) and its `jsonb` equivalent.\r\n- Significant improvements to [CLI mode](https://sqlite.org/climode.html), including result formatting.\r\n\r\nThe result formatting improvements come from a new library, the [Query Results Formatter](https://sqlite.org/src/file/ext/qrf). I [had Claude Code](https://github.com/simonw/tools/pull/266) (on my phone) compile that to WebAssembly and build [this playground interface](https://tools.simonwillison.net/sqlite-qrf) for trying that out.",
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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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