Kākāpō parrots
Kākāpō parrots
Lenny posted another snippet from our 1 hour 40 minute podcast recording and it's about kākāpō parrots! Tags: kakapo
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Claude Mythos #2: Cybersecurity and Project Glasswing
Anthropic is not going to release its new most capable model, Claude Mythos, to the public any time soon.
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ChatGPT voice mode is a weaker model
ChatGPT voice mode is a weaker model
I think it's non-obvious to many people that the OpenAI voice mode runs on a much older, much weaker model - it feels like the AI that you can talk to should be the smartest AI but it really isn't. If you ask ChatGPT voice mode for its knowledge cutoff date it tells you April 2024 - it's a GPT-4o era model. This thought inspired by this Andrej Karpathy tweet about the growing gap in understanding of AI capability based on the access points and domains people are using the models with: [...] It…
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Agents don’t know what good looks like. And that’s exactly the problem.
Agents don’t know what good looks like. And that’s exactly the problem.
Luca Mezzalira, author of Building Micro-Frontends, originally shared the following article on LinkedIn. It’s being republished here with his permission. Every few years, something arrives that promises to change how we build software. And every few years, the industry splits predictably: One half declares the old rules dead; the other half folds its arms and […]
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Build Agents That Don’t Fail in Production
...a step-by-step guide (with code).
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GitHub Repo Size
GitHub Repo Size
Tool: GitHub Repo Size GitHub doesn't tell you the repo size in the UI, but it's available in the CORS-friendly API. Paste a repo into this tool to see the size, for example for simonw/datasette (8.1MB). Tags: cors, github
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Three reasons to think that the Claude Mythos announcement from Anthropic was overblown
No need to panic just yet
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Architecture as Code to Teach Humans and Agents About Architecture
Architecture as Code to Teach Humans and Agents About Architecture
A funny thing happened on the way to writing our book Architecture as Code—the entire industry shifted. Generally, we write books iteratively—starting with a seed of an idea, then developing it through workshops, conference presentations, online classes, and so on. That’s exactly what we did about a year ago with our Architecture as Code book. […]
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asgi-gzip 0.3
asgi-gzip 0.3
Release: asgi-gzip 0.3 I ran into trouble deploying a new feature using SSE to a production Datasette instance, and it turned out that instance was using datasette-gzip which uses asgi-gzip which was incorrectly compressing event/text-stream responses. asgi-gzip was extracted from Starlette, and has a GitHub Actions scheduled workflow to check Starlette for updates that need to be ported to the library... but that action had stopped running and hence had missed Starlette's own fix for this…
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Meta's new model is Muse Spark, and meta.ai chat has some interesting tools
Meta's new model is Muse Spark, and meta.ai chat has some interesting tools
Meta announced Muse Spark today, their first model release since Llama 4 almost exactly a year ago. It's hosted, not open weights, and the API is currently "a private API preview to select users", but you can try it out today on meta.ai (Facebook or Instagram login required). Meta's self-reported benchmarks show it competitive with Opus 4.6, Gemini 3.1 Pro, and GPT 5.4 on selected benchmarks, though notably behind on Terminal-Bench 2.0. Meta themselves say they "continue to invest in areas with…
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The Next Step After Karpathy's Wiki Idea
100% open-source and runs locally!
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What should we take from Anthropic’s (possibly) terrifying new report on Mythos?
Not many facts are on the ground, but here are some starting points for sober thinking
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AI-Infused Development Needs More Than Prompts
AI-Infused Development Needs More Than Prompts
The current conversation about AI in software development is still happening at the wrong layer. Most of the attention goes to code generation. Can the model write a method, scaffold an API, refactor a service, or generate tests? Those things matter, and they are often useful. But they are not the hard part of enterprise […]
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Quoting Giles Turnbull
Quoting Giles Turnbull
I have a feeling that everyone likes using AI tools to try doing someone else’s profession. They’re much less keen when someone else uses it for their profession. — Giles Turnbull, AI and the human voice Tags: ai-ethics, writing, ai
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