Import AI 451: Political superintelligence; Google's society of minds, and a robot drummer
Are there any genies that can be put back in the bottle?
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Software, in a Time of Fear
The following article originally appeared on Medium and is being reproduced here with the author’s permission. This 2,800-word essay (a 12-minute read) is about how to survive inside the AI revolution in software development, without succumbing to the fear that swirls around all of us. It explains some lessons I learned hiking up difficult mountain […]
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llm-mrchatterbox 0.1
llm-mrchatterbox 0.1
Release: llm-mrchatterbox 0.1 See Mr. Chatterbox is a (weak) Victorian-era ethically trained model you can run on your own computer. Tags: llm
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Pretext
Pretext
Pretext Exciting new browser library from Cheng Lou, previously a React core developer and the original creator of the react-motion animation library. Pretext solves the problem of calculating the height of a paragraph of line-wrapped text without touching the DOM. The usual way of doing this is to render the text and measure its dimensions, but this is extremely expensive. Pretext uses an array of clever tricks to make this much, much faster, which enables all sorts of new text rendering…
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Pretext — Under the Hood
Pretext — Under the Hood
Tool: Pretext — Under the Hood See my notes on Pretext here.
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Python Vulnerability Lookup
Python Vulnerability Lookup
Tool: Python Vulnerability Lookup I learned that the OSV.dev open source vulnerability database has an open CORS JSON API, so I had Claude Code build this HTML tool for pasting in a pyproject.toml or requirements.txt file (or name of a GitHub repo containing those) and seeing a list of all reported vulnerabilities from that API. Tags: tools, python, supply-chain, vibe-coding, security
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The mirage of visual understanding in current frontier models
When a model achieves a “top rank on a standard chest X-ray question-answering benchmark without access to any images” you know something is deeply wrong.
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Concepts of LLM Serving in LLMOps
...covered with API-based access, inference with vLLM, and practical decisions.
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Quoting Matt Webb
Quoting Matt Webb
The thing about agentic coding is that agents grind problems into dust. Give an agent a problem and a while loop and - long term - it’ll solve that problem even if it means burning a trillion tokens and re-writing down to the silicon. [...] But we want AI agents to solve coding problems quickly and in a way that is maintainable and adaptive and composable (benefiting from improvements elsewhere), and where every addition makes the whole stack better. So at the bottom is really great libraries…
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datasette-showboat 0.1a2
datasette-showboat 0.1a2
Release: datasette-showboat 0.1a2 I added an option to export a Markdown file from my app that lets Showboat incrementally publish updates to a remote server.
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The AI Doc: Your Questions Answered
So you’ve just seen The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist, and you suddenly have questions, lots of them. The 104-minute documentary (currently in theaters) takes viewers on a fast-paced tour through the many dimensions of the AI problem, featuring interviews from a wide range of experts. The documentary is a great place […] The post The AI Doc: Your Questions Answered appeared first on Machine Intelligence Research Institute.
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Quoting Richard Fontana
Quoting Richard Fontana
FWIW, IANDBL, TINLA, etc., I don’t currently see any basis for concluding that chardet 7.0.0 is required to be released under the LGPL. AFAIK no one including Mark Pilgrim has identified persistence of copyrightable expressive material from earlier versions in 7.0.0 nor has anyone articulated some viable alternate theory of license violation. [...] — Richard Fontana, LGPLv3 co-author, weighing in on the chardet relicensing situation Tags: open-source, ai-ethics, llms, ai, generative-ai,…
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Vibe coding SwiftUI apps is a lot of fun
Vibe coding SwiftUI apps is a lot of fun
I have a new laptop - a 128GB M5 MacBook Pro, which early impressions show to be very capable for running good local LLMs. I got frustrated with Activity Monitor and decided to vibe code up some alternative tools for monitoring performance and I'm very happy with the results. This is my second experiment with vibe coding macOS apps - the first was this presentation app a few weeks ago. It turns out Claude Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.4 are both very competent at SwiftUI - and a full SwiftUI app can fit…
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The Three Layers of Context That Make Coding Agents Actually Useful
...explained with code!
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