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2026-11-11 22:03:25+00:00 |
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2026-11-11 21:18:30+00:00 |
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| blogmark |
2026-11-11 18:42:50+00:00 |
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2026-11-11 15:11:59+00:00 |
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2026-11-10 07:28:21+00:00 |
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2026-11-10 05:34:14+00:00 |
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2026-11-07 23:57:46+00:00 |
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2026-11-06 21:43:36+00:00 |
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2026-11-06 17:13:12+00:00 |
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2026-11-05 17:34:03+00:00 |
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2026-11-03 05:32:25+00:00 |
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2026-11-01 16:49:04+00:00 |
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2026-10-31 23:15:22+00:00 |
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2026-10-30 21:59:22+00:00 |
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2026-10-29 22:48:29+00:00 |
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2026-10-29 17:00:26+00:00 |
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2026-10-29 14:06:27+00:00 |
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2026-10-28 23:23:21+00:00 |
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2026-10-28 16:45:23+00:00 |
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2026-10-28 10:09:07+00:00 |
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2026-10-27 19:34:18+00:00 |
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2026-10-26 23:53:07+00:00 |
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2026-10-26 19:00:25+00:00 |
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2026-10-23 19:40:54+00:00 |
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"commentary": "Kimi K3.1 Pro landed on the Kimi API today - it's not yet open weights, but Moonshot promise \"Full model weights will be released by Nov 4, 2026\".\r\n\r\nThey're also offering a \"Highspeed\" version that's 2-3x faster, at twice the price (except for input token cache hits, which are priced the same).\r\n\r\nThe [US dollar pricing](https://platform.kimi.ai/docs/pricing/chat) is $2.00/million tokens for input and $10/million for output - the same as GPT-6.1 Sol and half the price of Claude Opus 5.5.\r\n\r\nMoonshot's own benchmarks show Kimi as approximately level with Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra - beating them on a few benchmarks, coming close on others.\r\n\r\nArtificial Analysis [scored Kimi at 55](https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/kimi-k3-1-pro) - ahead of Claude Fable 5.1, GPT-6 Astra, and Gemini 4 Argon (all at 53) and behind only Claude Opus 5.5 (58).\r\n\r\nThis is the first time a (soon-to-be) open weight model has scored this highly against the frontier.\r\n\r\nI tried it out via the [Moonshot API](https://platform.kimi.ai/docs/get-your-api-key) using the [llm openai endpoint](https://llm.datasette.io/en/stable/other-models.html#openai-endpoint) command I added to [LLM 0.32](https://llm.datasette.io/en/stable/changelog.html#v0-32) back in August:\r\n\r\n llm openai endpoint \\\r\n https://api.moonshot.ai/v1 \\\r\n --key kimi \\\r\n -m kimi-k3.1-pro \\\r\n \"Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle\" \\\r\n --responses \\\r\n -o reasoning_effort low \\\r\n > kimi-k3.1-pro-pelican-low.stdout.txt \\\r\n 2> kimi-k3.1-pro-pelican-low.stderr.txt\r\n\r\n`llm openai endpoint` can run prompts against any OpenAI-compatible endpoint but doesn't log the results, hence the extra options to save stdout and stderr (the reasoning trace).\r\n\r\nHere [are the pelicans](https://tools.simonwillison.net/markdown-svg-renderer?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgist.github.com%2Fsimonw%2F9b7181492209387da1d4f53002f26663) I got for Kimi K3.1 Pro on the three reasoning levels it supports - low, medium, and max. This is max:\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nFor comparison, I ran fresh [pelicans against Kimi K3](https://tools.simonwillison.net/markdown-svg-renderer?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgist.github.com%2Fsimonw%2Feba9a4283c9e94cbbb5325902a3921a8) on those three reasoning levels.",
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2026-10-22 19:42:26+00:00 |
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"commentary": "OK well this is a first for me... at [00:44](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKO4pQtIXow&t=44s) in this new music video by Dutch alternative rock band [De Staat](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Staat):\r\n\r\n<video\r\n src=\"https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/freedom-pelican.mp4\"\r\n poster=\"https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/freedom-pelican-poster.jpg\"\r\n preload=\"none\"\r\n loop=\"1\" controls=\"1\"\r\n playsinline=\"1\" muted=\"1\"\r\n width=\"1280\"\r\n height=\"720\"\r\n style=\"display: block; width: 100%; height: auto;\"\r\n> </video>\r\n\r\nThe visual effects are credited to Matties Grooten of [Fake it or Leave it](https://fakeitorleaveit.com).",
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2026-10-22 18:09:56+00:00 |
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"commentary": "News today from Anthropic:\r\n\r\n> We\u2019re committed to keeping Agent Skills open, community-driven, and vendor-neutral. Today, we are donating the standard to the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) under the Linux Foundation, [which we co-founded](https://www.anthropic.com/news/donating-the-model-context-protocol-and-establishing-of-the-agentic-ai-foundation) with Block and OpenAI last year, and to which we donated the Model Context Protocol (MCP).\r\n\r\nI'm pleased to note I called this one [last December](https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/19/agent-skills/), when Anthropic first declared skills to be an \"open standard\":\r\n\r\n> I wouldn't be surprised to see this end up [in the AAIF](https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/9/agentic-ai-foundation/), recently the new home of the MCP specification.\r\n\r\nFun side note: since my blog content is available to Claude via the [datasette-mcp](https://github.com/datasette/datasette-mcp)\r\nplugin I found that post by [prompting Claude](https://claude.ai/share/80b341de-590b-4834-bca9-0d9c9a3a0298) to \"`Use simonwillison.net MCP to find if I ever talked about how I want skills to be donated to a standards body`\".",
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2026-10-22 15:34:13+00:00 |
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2026-10-21 18:41:53+00:00 |
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"link_url": "https://thephp.foundation/blog/2026/10/21/todays-php-security-release-and-how-were-strengthening-php-security/",
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2026-10-21 16:25:16+00:00 |
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2026-10-20 23:50:25+00:00 |
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| blogmark |
2026-10-19 23:58:25+00:00 |
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2026-10-17 21:11:12+00:00 |
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2026-10-16 22:06:37+00:00 |
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| blogmark |
2026-10-15 13:04:03+00:00 |
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2026-10-14 16:26:53+00:00 |
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2026-10-13 23:00:06+00:00 |
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2026-10-13 13:32:00+00:00 |
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2026-10-10 23:58:04+00:00 |
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2026-10-10 02:04:12+00:00 |
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2026-10-09 22:48:37+00:00 |
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2026-10-09 15:02:29+00:00 |
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2026-10-08 21:05:44+00:00 |
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2026-10-07 23:14:58+00:00 |
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2026-10-07 14:53:51+00:00 |
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2026-10-07 04:47:55+00:00 |
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2026-10-07 00:16:45+00:00 |
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2026-10-06 23:58:56+00:00 |
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2026-10-06 20:18:19+00:00 |
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2026-10-05 23:56:47+00:00 |
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2026-10-01 06:29:01+00:00 |
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2026-09-29 22:20:28+00:00 |
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2026-09-28 22:07:38+00:00 |
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2026-09-28 19:11:42+00:00 |
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| quotation |
2026-09-28 04:01:30+00:00 |
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2026-09-25 17:22:01+00:00 |
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| blogmark |
2026-09-23 02:53:19+00:00 |
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2026-09-22 18:03:21+00:00 |
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2026-09-21 22:25:44+00:00 |
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2026-09-20 21:06:43+00:00 |
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2026-09-18 23:57:57+00:00 |
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2026-09-18 19:09:27+00:00 |
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2026-09-18 14:36:41+00:00 |
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| blogmark |
2026-09-17 23:59:19+00:00 |
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2026-09-17 23:37:27+00:00 |
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2026-09-17 20:57:55+00:00 |
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2026-09-16 18:09:49+00:00 |
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2026-09-16 16:00:54+00:00 |
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| blogmark |
2026-09-14 21:18:13+00:00 |
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2026-09-14 14:34:29+00:00 |
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2026-09-12 18:00:21+00:00 |
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2026-09-12 00:42:25+00:00 |
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"commentary": "Bombshell report from Spencer Kitts, Thomas Larsen, and Sydney Von Arx - three of the four authors of the [report on the agent attack on disused wikis](https://collusion.wiki/) ([previously](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/4/rogue-agent-wikis/)) last week.\r\n\r\nThis time they're noting that it looks very likely that an OpenAI agent swarm was behind an attack against the RubyGems package repository first reported on May 12th [by Maciej Mensfeld of the RubyGems security team](https://twitter.com/maciejmensfeld/status/2054164602577940619):\r\n\r\n> We're dealing with a major malicious attack on @rubygems right now. Signups are paused for the time being.\r\n>\r\n> Hundreds of packages involved - mostly targeting us, but some carrying exploits. The team has been on this for hours. More details to follow once we're through it.\r\n\r\nThose packages turned out to carry some very suspicious patterns:\r\n\r\n1. Many of them included \"oai\" in their name, or the author field, or the fake email address they provided\r\n2. The files they were accessing were similar in character to the files retrieved by the wiki agents, using similar tricks (r.jina.ai) - and OpenAI have confirmed the wiki agents were theirs\r\n3. The code in the packages appeared to be LLM-authored.\r\n\r\nI find point 2 the most convincing, given what we later learned from the wiki attack.\r\n\r\nMany of the packages were exploiting the [RubyDoc.info](https://rubydoc.info/) documentation build process to exfiltrate (public) data from UK government websites, presumably as part of an information gathering task similar to the research tasks processed by the wiki-exploiting agents. We know this because one agent helpfully left a comment:\r\n\r\n`# malicious crawler/exfil for Southwark Jan 2026 docs via rubydoc.info worker`\r\n\r\nThey also attempted to steal API keys via an exploit that [was patched over two months later](https://blog.rubygems.org/2026/07/22/security-advisory-legacy-api-key-leak.html) - it's not clear if those attempts were successful.\r\n\r\nThe thing that bothers me most about this incident is that the authors report that OpenAI had not disclosed to RubyGems that they were responsible for the attack prior to now. If that's true there are two options:\r\n\r\n1. After the Hugging Face and Wiki attacks OpenAI were still unable to review their previous logs and determine that they had previously attacked RubyGems.\r\n2. They knew about the attack on RubyGems and made the decision *not* to reach out to the RubyGems team about it.\r\n\r\nBoth of these are bad!\r\n\r\nGiven this incident, the [Hugging Face situation](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/22/openai-cyberattack/), and the Wiki attack, the obvious question right now is *how many more incidents* like this are out there waiting to be discovered?",
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2026-09-11 22:49:18+00:00 |
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"link_title": "So you want to use OpenRouter?",
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"commentary": "One of OpenRouter's selling points is that it \"handles fallbacks automatically and picks the most cost-effective option for each request\", so you can call a single API endpoint for a model and get routed to the best available backend provider.\r\n\r\nMohamed Moustafa points out a whole set of ways that this can cause you problems. Different providers run different serving software with different optimizations and settings, which means that the same OpenRouter endpoint can serve model requests that behave in different ways.\r\n\r\nSome providers even lack vision capability for vision models, and the way the reasoning effort option is processed can differ as well.\r\n\r\nThankfully you can control which provider is routed to using [the provider.only option](https://openrouter.ai/docs/guides/routing/provider-selection#allowing-only-specific-providers). The [/endpoints method](https://openrouter.ai/docs/api/api-reference/endpoints/list-all-endpoints-for-a-model) returns the list of available providers for a specific model ID.",
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2026-09-11 17:47:11+00:00 |
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2026-09-11 16:04:53+00:00 |
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2026-09-11 14:47:57+00:00 |
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2026-09-11 03:27:16+00:00 |
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2026-09-10 23:44:15+00:00 |
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2026-09-10 21:11:15+00:00 |
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2026-09-10 00:56:41+00:00 |
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2026-09-09 00:20:17+00:00 |
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2026-09-08 23:55:12+00:00 |
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The *very* short version is that Tristan and Levent worked on the problem for almost a year, making extensive use of Claude and Codex (mainly GPT-5.6 Sol), then had a breakthrough on August 15th. The mathematical rumour mill kicked into gear and Tristan and Levent heard that OpenAI had heard that Anthropic had resolved \"a major open problem\", so they reached out and learned that OpenAI had a team working on a related problem, with a similar approach. Quoting Tristan:\r\n\r\n> I asked when the first prompt had been sent by them. This question was not answered directly by OpenAI for some time. Eventually it was agreed that it had been sent in the past few days, after information about our work had reached OpenAI.\r\n> \r\n> I asked whether the model had been trained on, or had access to, our sessions in Codex, into which we had been putting all our drafts for the whole of this project. I was told the model did not look up user data. I asked again, about training, and I did not get an answer.\r\n\r\nIt gets more complicated from there. The OpenAI team offered to wait for Tristan to publish, or to have him author a paper about their result, but were clear that Levent would *not* be invited as a co-author due to OpenAI's competitive relationship with his employer.\r\n\r\nHere's how OpenAI described their work:\r\n\r\n> On Tuesday, September 1, we heard rumors that two Millennium Prize problems had been resolved. Inspired by these rumors and by the step change in performance of our internal model, we launched an effort to evaluate it on all open Millennium Prize problems and a few other high-impact problems. [...]\r\n>\r\n> The agents arrived at their resolution on Saturday, September 5, about 88 hours after the first agents were launched. Lean formalization and verification took an additional 17 hours via GPT\u20116 Astra.\r\n>\r\n> Across all attempted problems, the agents sent 4.9 million messages and used about 300 billion output tokens. In the process of resolving the Navier\u2013Stokes problem, the agents sent 2.7 million messages and used approximately 130 billion output tokens.\r\n\r\n(We don't know the cost structure of the internal model they used, but 300 billion output tokens at public API prices for GPT-6 Astra would cost [$15,000,000](https://www.llm-prices.com/#ot=300000000000&sel=gpt-6-astra).)\r\n\r\nHere's where they provide their perspective on Tristan and Levent's work (emphasis mine):\r\n\r\n> Our effort began on September 1st after hearing a rumor which we later realized was related to Levent Alp\u00f6ge, an Anthropic employee, and Tristan Buckmaster, a math professor at NYU. 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However, our proofs differ significantly and even the precise results proved are different in the Euler case (forced vs unforced).\r\n\r\nMy interpretation of what happened here is that OpenAI heard that some Millennium Prize problems had been solved using LLMs and saw this as an opportunity to demonstrate the power of their latest model, without thinking too hard about the optics of scooping a team who had been using OpenAI's own models to work on this problem for the best part of a year.\r\n\r\nThis situation appears to mirror what's happening in the world of computer security right now. Anil Madhavapeddy recently pointed out that [Just a rumour of a bug is enough to find a security exploit these days](https://anil.recoil.org/notes/rumour-is-the-exploit), because if someone knows that some software has an unpatched vulnerability, they can set their agents the task of finding it. Is the same now true of mathematics? Just knowing that there is an unpublished solution to a problem might trigger millions of dollars in LLM spending to get there first.\r\n\r\nThis also highlights one of my ongoing frustrations about how all of this works. When an AI lab says that my data is \"used to improve model performance\", *what does that actually mean*?\r\n\r\nMy two favourite hypothetical questions regarding this used to be:\r\n\r\n- If I'm running Codex and one of my API keys accidentally gets consumed in the context, what are the chances that someone else might ask for an API key in the future and get mine back? 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2026-09-08 22:46:33+00:00 |
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| blogmark |
2026-09-07 23:08:58+00:00 |
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2026-09-07 22:26:25+00:00 |
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| blogmark |
2026-09-06 23:57:40+00:00 |
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2026-09-06 14:40:07+00:00 |
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2026-09-06 08:42:49+00:00 |
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2026-09-05 23:27:48+00:00 |
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2026-09-03 20:18:41+00:00 |
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2026-09-02 05:50:57+00:00 |
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2026-09-01 17:01:11+00:00 |
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2026-09-01 14:59:18+00:00 |
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2026-08-31 23:59:36+00:00 |
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"link_url": "https://grahamdumpleton.me/posts/2026/08/introducing-wrapture/",
"link_title": "Introducing wrapture",
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I want to be upfront about that, and equally upfront about what it was not. This was not vibe coding, where a one-shot prompt produces a pile of generated code and the person driving hopes for the best because they lack the knowledge to judge what came back. Vibe coding has earned its bad reputation. I engineered wrapture carefully from the start. I have spent a long time in this particular corner of Python and knew exactly what the result needed to be, and the AI was the means of producing it rather than the source of the design.</p>\r\n</blockquote>\r\n<p>In a follow-up post, <a href=\"https://grahamdumpleton.me/posts/2026/09/unit-testing-with-wrapture/\">Unit testing with wrapture</a>, Graham shows the testing patterns supported by the new library:</p>\r\n<pre><span class=\"pl-k\">def</span> <span class=\"pl-en\">test_stub_with_wrapture</span>():\r\n <span class=\"pl-k\">with</span> <span class=\"pl-s1\">wrapture</span>.<span class=\"pl-c1\">binding</span>(\r\n <span class=\"pl-v\">Gateway</span>, <span class=\"pl-s\">\"charge\"</span>\r\n ).<span class=\"pl-c1\">on_call</span>.<span class=\"pl-c1\">returns</span>({\r\n <span class=\"pl-s\">\"id\"</span>: <span class=\"pl-s\">\"stub\"</span>, <span class=\"pl-s\">\"amount\"</span>: <span class=\"pl-c1\">0</span>}\r\n ):\r\n <span class=\"pl-k\">assert</span> <span class=\"pl-en\">OrderService</span>().<span class=\"pl-c1\">place</span>(\r\n <span class=\"pl-c1\">500</span>\r\n )[<span class=\"pl-s\">\"id\"</span>] <span class=\"pl-c1\">==</span> <span class=\"pl-s\">\"stub\"</span></pre>\r\n<p>And this neat example of a test that calls and then modifies the return value from the original method:</p>\r\n<pre><span class=\"pl-k\">def</span> <span class=\"pl-en\">test_pinned_result_with_wrapture</span>():\r\n <span class=\"pl-s1\">charge</span> <span class=\"pl-c1\">=</span> <span class=\"pl-s1\">wrapture</span>.<span class=\"pl-c1\">binding</span>(\r\n <span class=\"pl-v\">Gateway</span>, <span class=\"pl-s\">\"charge\"</span>\r\n )\r\n <span class=\"pl-s1\">charge</span>.<span class=\"pl-c1\">on_call</span>.<span class=\"pl-c1\">transforms_result</span>(\r\n <span class=\"pl-k\">lambda</span> <span class=\"pl-s1\">r</span>: {<span class=\"pl-c1\">**</span><span class=\"pl-s1\">r</span>, <span class=\"pl-s\">\"id\"</span>: <span class=\"pl-s\">\"ch_TEST\"</span>}\r\n )\r\n <span class=\"pl-k\">with</span> <span class=\"pl-s1\">charge</span>:\r\n <span class=\"pl-k\">assert</span> <span class=\"pl-en\">OrderService</span>().<span class=\"pl-c1\">place</span>(\r\n <span class=\"pl-c1\">500</span>\r\n ) <span class=\"pl-c1\">==</span> {\r\n <span class=\"pl-s\">\"id\"</span>: <span class=\"pl-s\">\"ch_TEST\"</span>, <span class=\"pl-s\">\"amount\"</span>: <span class=\"pl-c1\">500</span>\r\n }</pre>\r\n\r\n(In both of these examples the `OrderService().place(...)` method calls `Gateway().charge(...)`.)",
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2026-08-31 22:25:02+00:00 |
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2026-08-31 01:21:01+00:00 |
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2026-08-29 23:53:13+00:00 |
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"commentary": "New open weight text input (no vision) LLM from Chinese company Tencent today: 770B total parameters, 49B active parameters, 1M token context window, [1.56TB on Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/tencent/Hy4-preview).\r\n\r\nThis is a big size increase from their previous [Hy3](https://huggingface.co/tencent/Hy3) in July, which was 295B, 21B active, 256,000 context, 598GB.\r\n\r\nI recently started using model chat templates to better understand their capabilities. Here's Hy4's [chat_template.jinja](https://huggingface.co/tencent/Hy4-preview/blob/main/chat_template.jinja) on Hugging Face, which includes this section:\r\n<div class=\"highlight highlight-text-html-django\"><pre><span class=\"pl-e\">{%</span>- <span class=\"pl-k\">if</span> <span class=\"pl-k\">not</span> <span class=\"pl-s\">reasoning_effort</span> <span class=\"pl-s\">is</span> <span class=\"pl-s\">defined</span> <span class=\"pl-e\">%}</span>\r\n <span class=\"pl-e\">{%</span>- <span class=\"pl-s\">set</span> <span class=\"pl-s\">reasoning_effort</span> = <span class=\"pl-s\">'high'</span> <span class=\"pl-e\">%}</span>\r\n<span class=\"pl-e\">{%</span>- <span class=\"pl-s\">elif</span> <span class=\"pl-s\">reasoning_effort</span> <span class=\"pl-k\">not</span> <span class=\"pl-k\">in</span> [<span class=\"pl-s\">'high'</span>, <span class=\"pl-s\">'no_think'</span>] <span class=\"pl-e\">%}</span>\r\n <span class=\"pl-e\">{%</span>- <span class=\"pl-k\">if</span> <span class=\"pl-s\">reasoning_effort</span> <span class=\"pl-s\">is</span> <span class=\"pl-s\">none</span> <span class=\"pl-e\">%}</span>\r\n {{- raise_exception('reasoning_effort error : None, should be no_think/high') }}\r\n <span class=\"pl-e\">{%</span>- <span class=\"pl-k\">else</span> <span class=\"pl-e\">%}</span>\r\n {{- raise_exception('reasoning_effort error : ' + reasoning_effort + ', should be no_think/high') }}\r\n <span class=\"pl-e\">{%</span>- <span class=\"pl-k\">endif</span> <span class=\"pl-e\">%}</span>\r\n<span class=\"pl-e\">{%</span>- <span class=\"pl-k\">endif</span> <span class=\"pl-e\">%}</span></pre></div>\r\nSo it looks like there are just two reasoning effort levels: \"high\" (the default) and \"no_think\" (reason by disabled).\r\n\r\nI tried my \"Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle\" prompt with the default high reasoning [via OpenRouter](https://openrouter.ai/tencent/hy4-preview#apps) and [got this](https://tools.simonwillison.net/markdown-svg-renderer#url=https%3A%2F%2Fgist.github.com%2Fsimonw%2Fcb69816b3fb940f2782569a82a523af1):\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nQuoting the reasoning trace:\r\n\r\n> [...] Let's maybe add a helmet? It could improve riding theme, but may obscure head. Maybe a small cycling cap or helmet? The user didn't ask; can add red helmet? Might be cute. But pelican with big beak; a helmet might obscure. Better maybe no.\r\n> \r\n> Maybe add sunglasses? no.\r\n> \r\n> Maybe add water? no.\r\n\r\nIt's interesting how the reasoning trace uses slightly truncated English, presumably because perfect grammar isn't useful or token efficient for hidden reasoning text.",
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2026-08-28 22:12:02+00:00 |
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"commentary": "Anil Madhavapeddy is a professor of computer science at Cambridge and a core maintainer of the OCaml compiler. In this somewhat alarming post he reports that security issues in OCaml projects are seeing evidence of attempted exploits within minutes of patches being shared for discussion:\r\n\r\n> This normally takes a few days and a release within a week or two is reasonable. Within about ten minutes (!) this website was fielding probes for percent-encoded traversal sequences, indicating that automated watchers are keeping an eye on public repositories.\r\n\r\nModern coding agents have become so effective at finding flaws that the slightest hint at a new bug can be enough information for them to find it, something Anil has been able to demonstrate using his own agents, switching to DeepSeek V4 Pro\u2060 when Claude Fable refused the task.\r\n\r\nAnil points out that this rate of discovery appears incompatible with existing open source embargo practices for new issues. If an issue can become an exploit this fast, we need to figure out new processes for keeping our communities safe.\r\n\r\nrclone maintainer Nick Craig-Wood [confirms in the Hacker News comments](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49480466#49480777) that his project is seeing this problem:\r\n\r\n> In the first 10 years of the rclone project we received about 20 security disclosures through GitHub. We had to deal with over 40 in the last month! That has taken a huge amount of my time, even using AI tools to triage and come up with fixes for review.\r\n> \r\n> The hit rate for those security disclosures is pretty good - about 75% of them have a nugget of something which needs looking at. [...]\r\n>\r\n> GitHub assigns CVEs for the advisories. Before the AI apocalypse they took 2-3 days for an assignment but now it they are running at 3-4 weeks so I have to send the point releases out with CVE-PENDING in the changelog which isn't ideal.",
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2026-08-27 22:50:25+00:00 |
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"commentary": "Anthropic are putting a great deal of faith in Claude Code's auto mode for protecting their coding agent users against prompt injection attacks. They recently [made that the default](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/8/auto-mode/) and have made bold claims about its effectiveness.\r\n\r\nJohann Rehberger is one of the most credible prompt injection researchers active today. He found an attack against auto mode which he claims works 80% of the time, by tricking Claude Code into downloading and uncompressing a zip archive, then executing code that imports `base64` without noticing that this will import and execute a local `struct.py` file extracted from the archive.\r\n\r\nIn a few cases auto mode directly prevented the agent from preventing harmful code from continuing to execute!\r\n\r\n> In a few runs Claude tried to terminate the malware process once it noticed the compromise, but Auto Mode denied the cleanup command.\r\n> \r\n> Claude detects the compromise, but **Auto Mode blocks its cleanup command**\r\n> \r\n> The safety mechanism itself can become part of the failure. The classifier allowed the creation of the malware process, but then it blocked the command intended to stop it!\r\n\r\nI agree with Johann's conclusion here: the only safe way to run agents if there's any risk of attracting the attention of an adversarial attack is with a sandbox:\r\n\r\n> - Run unattended coding agents in a container, VM or OS sandbox.\r\n> - Restrict network egress.\r\n> - Monitor your agents.\r\n> - Do not expose home directories, SSH keys, cloud credentials,\u2026 to the agent runtime. [...]\r\n\r\n**Update 30th August 2026**: On Lobste.rs [hyperpape points out](https://lobste.rs/s/ktbweg/prompt_injection_claude_code_opus_5_auto#c_gi7eqj) that this doesn't fit the bill of a classic prompt injection attack because at no point are malicious instructions from the website accidentally followed by the LLM. They're right: this is more of a confused environment attack where the nature of the environment that the agent is exposed to results in an exploit.",
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2026-08-26 23:52:58+00:00 |
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"link_url": "https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.8-flash-next",
"link_title": "Qwen3.8-Flash-Next",
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"commentary": "Another open weights model from Qwen. This one is \"a multimodal MoE model that also serves as an early preview of the architecture used in Qwen4\".\r\n\r\nIt's pretty big: 125B parameters but only 6B active which means it gets a significant performance boost.\r\n\r\nI've been trying it out on a DGX Spark using [these Unsloth quantized models](https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-GGUF). I'm still exploring the model - so far I've tried the 72.5GB UD-IQ1_S one (producing [these pelicans](https://tools.simonwillison.net/markdown-svg-renderer#url=https%3A%2F%2Fgist.github.com%2Fsimonw%2Ff9c69ebdab90d8a45b8de4742cc7b840)) and the 78.9GB UD-Q2_K_XL (producing [these](https://tools.simonwillison.net/markdown-svg-renderer#url=https%3A%2F%2Fgist.github.com%2Fsimonw%2F6ba7cbfc1a9336986703b41f7fccd73a)).\r\n\r\nMy favorite so far was this xhigh reasoning effort one from UD-Q2_K_XL:\r\n\r\n",
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