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Summary: An International Agreement to Prevent the Premature Creation of Artificial Superintelligence
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Summary: An International Agreement to Prevent the Premature Creation of Artificial Superintelligence

If anyone, anywhere builds a superhuman artificial intelligence using present methods, the most likely outcome is catastrophe. There have accordingly been widespread calls for an international agreement prohibiting the development of superintelligence. In November 2025, MIRI’s Technical Governance Team published an example of one such agreement. This post is an informal and very abbreviated summary […] The post Summary: An International Agreement to Prevent the Premature Creation of Artificial…

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llm 0.32a2
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llm 0.32a2

Release: llm 0.32a2 A bunch of useful stuff in this LLM alpha, but the most important detail is this one: Most reasoning-capable OpenAI models now use the /v1/responses endpoint instead of /v1/chat/completions. This enables interleaved reasoning across tool calls for GPT-5 class models. #1435 This means you can now see the summarized reasoning tokens when you run prompts against an OpenAI model, displayed in a different color to standard error. Use the -R or --hide-reasoning flags if you don't…

Simon Willison's Weblog
Burnout and Cognitive Debt
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Burnout and Cognitive Debt

Steve Yegge’s article about programmer burnout (“The AI Vampire”) along with Margaret Storey’s article about Cognitive Debt started an ongoing conversation about programmer fatigue and software quality—two topics that should be linked, but often aren’t. Steve argues that programming constantly with the help of agentic AI leds to burnout; it’s fast, it’s fun, but keeping […]

O'Reilly Radar — AI/ML
Thoughts on GitLab's workforce reduction" and "structural and strategic decisions"
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Thoughts on GitLab's workforce reduction" and "structural and strategic decisions"

GitLab Act 2 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. 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 but this post says they are "operating in…

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Quoting James Shore
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Quoting James Shore

Your AI coding agent, the one you use to write code, needs to reduce your maintenance costs. Not by a little bit, either. You write code twice as quick now? Better hope you’ve halved your maintenance costs. Three times as productive? One third the maintenance costs. Otherwise, you’re screwed. You’re trading a temporary speed boost for permanent indenture. [...] The math only works if the LLM decreases your maintenance costs, and by exactly the inverse of the rate it adds code. If you double…

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Your AI Use Is Breaking My Brain
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Your AI Use Is Breaking My Brain

Your AI Use Is Breaking My Brain Excellent, angry piece by Jason Koebler on how AI writing online is becoming impossible to avoid, filtering it is mentally exhausting and it's even starting to distort regular human writing styles. I particularly liked his use of the term "Zombie Internet" to define a different, more insidious alternative to the "Dead Internet" (which is just bots talking to each other): I called it the Zombie Internet because the truth is that large parts of the internet are…

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Using LLM in the shebang line of a script
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Using LLM in the shebang line of a script

TIL: Using LLM in the shebang line of a script Kim_Bruning on Hacker News: But seriously, you can put a shebang on an english text file now (if you're sufficiently brave) [...] This inspired me to look at patterns for doing exactly that with LLM. Here's the simplest, which takes advantage of LLM fragments: #!/usr/bin/env -S llm -f Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle But you can also incorporate tool calls using the -T name_of_tool option: #!/usr/bin/env -S llm -T llm_time -f Write a…

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Learning on the Shop floor
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Learning on the Shop floor

Learning on the Shop floor Tobias Lütke describes Shopify's internal coding agent tool, River, which operates entirely in public on their Slack: River does not respond to direct messages. She politely declines and suggests to create a public channel for you and her to start working in. I myself work with river in #tobi_river channel and many followed this pattern. Every conversation is therefore searchable. Anyone at Shopify can jump in. In my own channel, there are over 100 people who, react…

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From Capabilities to Responsibilities
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From Capabilities to Responsibilities

Human-in-the-Loop becomes an operational bottleneck In my previous article, ”The Missing Layer in Agentic AI,” I argued that AI agents need a deterministic execution kernel—a privileged “Kernel Space” that validates every proposed action before it touches the real world. That article focused on what happens at the execution boundary: idempotency, JIT state verification, and DFID-correlated […]

O'Reilly Radar — AI/ML
Quoting New York Times Editors’ Note
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Quoting New York Times Editors’ Note

This article was updated after The Times learned that a remark attributed to Pierre Poilievre, the Conservative leader, was in fact an A.I.-generated summary of his views about Canadian politics that A.I. rendered as a quotation. The reporter should have checked the accuracy of what the A.I. tool returned. The article now accurately quotes from a speech delivered by Mr. Poilievre in April. [...] He did not refer to politicians who changed allegiances as turncoats in that speech. — New…

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Quoting Andrew Quinn
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Quoting Andrew Quinn

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’t 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 awk and solve that entire class of problems in one fell swoop, for example. My central conceit is that this is a…

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Quoting Luke Curley
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Quoting Luke Curley

WebRTC is designed to degrade and drop my prompt during poor network conditions. wtf my dude WebRTC aggressively drops audio packets to keep latency low. If you’ve ever heard distorted audio on a conference call, that’s WebRTC baybee. The idea is that conference calls depend on rapid back-and-forth, so pausing to wait for audio is unacceptable. …but as a user, I would much rather wait an extra 200ms for my slow/expensive prompt to be accurate. After all, I’m paying good money to boil the ocean,…

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