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A ripple of excitement pulsed through the crowd. Paul Ford is blogging regularly again.

The folks behind Dark Sky spun themselves out of Apple and have built a new weather app: Acme Weather. “We missed those days as a small scrappy shop. So let’s try this again…”

The latest scourge of Twitter is AI bots that reply to your tweets with generic, banal commentary slop, often accompanied by a question to "drive engagement" and waste as much of your time as possible.

I just found out that the category name for this genre of software is reply guy tools. Amazing.

Tags: ai-ethics, twitter, slop, generative-ai, definitions, ai, llms

Nothing humbles you like telling your OpenClaw “confirm before acting” and watching it speedrun deleting your inbox. I couldn’t stop it from my phone. I had to RUN to my Mac mini like I was defusing a bomb.

I said “Check this inbox too and suggest what you would archive or delete, don’t action until I tell you to.” This has been working well for my toy inbox, but my real inbox was too huge and triggered compaction. During the compaction, it lost my original instruction 🤦‍♀️

— Summer Yue

Tags: ai-ethics, generative-ai, ai-agents, openclaw, ai, llms

Agentic Engineering Patterns > "Use red/green TDD" is a pleasingly succinct way to get better results out of a coding agent. TDD stands for Test Driven Development. It's a programming style where you ensure every piece of code you write is accompanied by automated tes...

The world’s biggest treehouse was inspired by a message from God. 

This week, we’re bringing you stories of places that, for one reason you another, you can’t visit.    

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The Claude C Compiler: What It Reveals About the Future of Software On February 5th Anthropic's Nicholas Carlini wrote about a project to use parallel Claudes to build a C compiler on top of the brand new Opus 4.6 Chris Lattner (Swift, LLVM, Clang, Mojo) knows more about C c...

London Stock Exchange: Raspberry Pi Holdings plc Striking graph illustrating stock in the UK Raspberry Pi holding company spiking on Tuesday: The Telegraph credited excitement around OpenClaw: Raspberry Pi's stock price has surged 30pc in two days, amid chatter on social ...

My thanks to Sentry for sponsoring last week at DF. Sentry is running a hands-on workshop: “Crash Reporting, Tracing, and Logs for iOS in Sentry”. You can watch it on demand. You’ll learn how to connect the dots between slowdowns, crashes, and the user experience in your iOS app. It’ll show you how to:

• Set up Sentry to surface high-priority mobile issues without alert fatigue.
• Use Logs and Breadcrumbs to reconstruct what happened with a crash.
• Find what’s behind a performance bottleneck using Tracing.
• Monitor and reduce the size of your iOS app using Size Analysis.

Link: sentry.io/resources/ios-workshop-jan-2026/?utm_source…

How I think about Codex Gabriel Chua (Developer Experience Engineer for APAC at OpenAI) provides his take on the confusing terminology behind the term "Codex", which can refer to a bunch of of different things within the OpenAI ecosystem: In plain terms, Codex is OpenAI’s s...

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Good space movie. Has great atmosphere overall (apart from a few soundtrack choices maybe). Liked the themes of the movie. The acting was great for the most part. And it has a good twist (or two?)! The very end is a bit unnecessary, when they could've just ended the movie right with the countdown in the airlock.

👍 Recommended!

We’re willing to bet that AO listeners didn’t go on the typical spring break trips. We want to hear your off the beaten track spring break travel stories. Where did you go? What made this trip so memorable? Did everything go as planned? Or did things go wrong? We want to hear it all. 

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We’ve made GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark about 30% faster. It is now serving at over 1200 tokens per second.

— Thibault Sottiaux, OpenAI

Tags: openai, llms, ai, generative-ai

Andrej Karpathy talks about "Claws" Andrej Karpathy tweeted a mini-essay about buying a Mac Mini ("The apple store person told me they are selling like hotcakes and everyone is confused") to tinker with Claws: I'm definitely a bit sus'd to run OpenClaw specifically [...] Bu...

I've been wanting to add indications of my various other online activities to my blog for a while now. I just turned on a new feature I'm calling "beats" (after story beats, naming this was hard!) which adds five new types of content to my site, all corresponding to activity...

Taalas serves Llama 3.1 8B at 17,000 tokens/second

This new Canadian hardware startup just announced their first product - a custom hardware implementation of the Llama 3.1 8B model (from July 2024) that can run at a staggering 17,000 tokens/second.

I was going to include a video of their demo but it's so fast it would look more like a screenshot. You can try it out at chatjimmy.ai.

They describe their Silicon Llama as “aggressively quantized, combining 3-bit and 6-bit parameters.” Their next generation will use 4-bit - presumably they have quite a long lead time for baking out new models!

Via Hacker News

Tags: ai, generative-ai, llama, llms

Reached the stage of parallel agent psychosis where I've lost a whole feature - I know I had it yesterday, but I can't seem to find the branch or worktree or cloud instance or checkout with it in.

... found it! Turns out I'd been hacking on a random prototype in /tmp and then my computer crashed and rebooted and I lost the code... but it's all still there in ~/.claude/projects/ session logs and Claude Code can extract it out and spin up the missing feature again.

Tags: parallel-agents, coding-agents, claude-code, generative-ai, ai, llms

An Introduction to Outsider Artist Henry Darger and His Bizarre 15,000-Page Illustrated Masterwork.