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By all means, prompt AI. But don't just relay the output. Read it, understand it, validate it, and then write a response in your own words (a decent certificate that you've done the prior steps). Making that effort is value you can add.
Via Lobste.rs
Tags: definitions, ai, generative-ai, llms, ai-misuse
Set up a nightly cron job that executes the prompt: fetch upstream changes to the <software> and rebase all local changes on top of upstream. Check that the software works as intended and replace the current version.
— David Crawshaw, Devtools must be open source
Tags: prompt-engineering, coding-agents, generative-ai, ai, llms, open-source
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Tags: newsletter
at openai, many people hook their chatgpt up to slack.
people really don't like when a coworker's chatgpt contacts them asking for help with a task, even when they'd be perfectly happy doing that same work if asked by that coworker.
reinforces how much people care about human relationships and helping each other, and want AI to give time back — or enhance time together — rather than become a layer separating people.
— Greg Brockman, President and Co-Founder, OpenAI
Release: datasette-apps 0.2a0
Changes that improve Datasette Apps when created and edited using Datasette Agent:
The app_debug() tool is pretty neat: it works by displaying the app in a opacity: 0 iframe with pointer-events: none (so it can't be seen or interacted with) and then executing agent-provided JavaScript inside that sandboxed iframe. This means the agent can smoke test that the app is working and even do things like measure the dimensions of different elements.
This uses the new context.browser_task() mechanism added in datasette-agent 0.4a0.
Tags: iframes, datasette, datasette-apps
Tool: Slack Emoji Maker
I wanted to create a new Slack emoji, and their tool recommends a square that's 128x128 and has a transparent background... so I had Fable build me this simple image editor against those requirements.
Release: datasette-agent 0.4a0
- New
await context.browser_task()mechanism allowing agent tools to run code directly in the user's browser. #33
This is an exciting new capability: it makes it easy for Datasette Agent plugins to provide tools that execute custom JavaScript in the user's browser.
Tags: datasette, llm-tool-use, datasette-agent
Release: llm 0.32rc1
This RC for LLM 0.32 finishes the work that started in LLM 0.32a0 - it adds a new schema design that does a much better job of capturing the details of the prompts and responses returned by the latest model families.
The most important change is the use of content-addressable hash IDs for stored messages. This allows de-duplication in the database, and means that LLM can now represent trees of messages for forked conversations.
Since it involves a significant schema change - new tables only, and old data should not be affected at all - it's worth running a backup of your existing logs.db before upgrading to the RC:
llm logs backup logs-backup.db
The RC also adds support for gpt-5.6-sol, gpt-5.6-terra, and gpt-5.6-luna.
Tags: llm
The writing assignments I give my students are gym tasks, not work tasks. I ask them to write policy memos not because the world needs more policy memos. I assign them because the very act of writing, which includes thinking and outlining and drafting and editing, making and criticizing and revising arguments, will help develop the critical thinking skills they will need in their future careers. And without this constant mental exercise, those skills will atrophy. Employers are already noticing.
— Bruce Schneier, Should You Use AI for a Task? Here’s a Simple Way to Decide
Tags: ai-ethics, writing, ai-misuse, generative-ai, bruce-schneier, ai, llms
Years ago, we didn’t have SQL. There were people whose job was to generate software that would query large data sets. Their job title was COBOL programmer.
Then SQL comes along—I’m simplifying this only a little bit—and it gives you this convenient way so people could just specify. With a very simple specification, you can generate all of that code that you had to pay the expensive COBOL programmer to do before.
That didn’t mean programmers went away. It just meant the job changed a little bit.
Tags: d-richard-hipp, sql, careers
TIL: Adding a custom MCP server to Claude and ChatGPT
Connecting a custom MCP server to Claude and ChatGPT's standard chat interfaces is possible, but can take quite a few steps.
Tags: ai, generative-ai, chatgpt, llms, claude, model-context-protocol
We’re aware a Modal customer published an unauthenticated endpoint that allowed anyone on the internet to use their sandboxes for code execution. This was used by the rogue agent. Modal’s platform or isolation were not compromised in anyway.
— Akshat Bubna, Modal's CTO, talking to Reuters about this incident
Tags: ai-security-research, openai, sandboxing, security, openai-hugging-face-incident