I'm at Anthropic's Code with Claude event, where they are launching Claude 4. I'll be live blogging the keynote here.
Tags: llm-release, liveblogging, anthropic, claude, generative-ai, ai, llms, pelican-riding-a-bicycle, claude-4
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micahflee
• Micah Lee
TeleMessage customers include DC Police, Andreessen Horowitz, JP Morgan, and hundreds more
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Update May 26, 2025: I've published the source code for TeleMessage Explorer: a new open source research tool
I've been digging through the 410 GB of Java heap dumps from TeleMessage's archive server, provided by DDoSecrets. Here's a description of the
No docs, no bugs
If your library doesn't have any documentation, it can't have any bugs.
Documentation specifies what your code is supposed to do. Your tests specify what it actually does.
Bugs exist when your test-enforced implementation fails to match the behavior described in your documentation. Without documentation a bug is just undefined behavior.
If you aim to follow semantic versioning you bump your major version when you release a backwards incompatible change. Such changes cannot exist if your code is not comprehensively documented!
Inspired by a half-remembered conversation I had with Tom Insam many years ago.
Tags: testing, semantic-versioning, documentation
The Crafters of “Andor”
It's hard for me to articulate just how much I love "Andor", the best Star Wars entertainment of at least this century, and maybe ever. Tony Gilroy's long been a favorite of mine (friends will know that I need very little prompting to wax rhapsodic about Michael Clayton, his...
The Crafters of “Andor”
It's hard for me to articulate just how much I love "Andor", the best Star Wars entertainment of at least this century, and maybe ever. Tony Gilroy's long been a favorite of mine (friends will know that I need very little prompting to wax rhapsodic about Michael Clayton, his...
The Crafters of “Andor”
It's hard for me to articulate just how much I love "Andor", the best Star Wars entertainment of at least this century, and maybe ever. Tony Gilroy's long been a favorite of mine (friends will know that I need very little prompting to wax rhapsodic about Michael Clayton, his...
The Crafters of “Andor”
It's hard for me to articulate just how much I love "Andor", the best Star Wars entertainment of at least this century, and maybe ever. Tony Gilroy's long been a favorite of mine (friends will know that I need very little prompting to wax rhapsodic about Michael Clayton, his...
Devstral
Devstral
New Apache 2.0 licensed LLM release from Mistral, this time specifically trained for code.
Devstral achieves a score of 46.8% on SWE-Bench Verified, outperforming prior open-source SoTA models by more than 6% points. When evaluated under the same test scaffold (Ope...
Gemini Diffusion
Gemini Diffusion
Another of the announcements from Google I/O yesterday was Gemini Diffusion, Google's first LLM to use diffusion (similar to image models like Imagen and Stable Diffusion) in place of transformers.
Google describe it like this:
Traditional autoregressive la...
Here’s how I got full admin rights in a Replit clone
Be careful how you run untrusted code!
Chicago Sun-Times Prints AI-Generated Summer Reading List With Books That Don't Exist
Chicago Sun-Times Prints AI-Generated Summer Reading List With Books That Don't Exist
Classic slop: it listed real authors with entirely fake books.
There's an important follow-up from 404 Media in their subsequent story:
Victor Lim, the vice president of marketing and comm...
I really don't like ChatGPT's new memory dossier
Last month ChatGPT got a major upgrade. As far as I can tell the closest to an official announcement was this tweet from @OpenAI:
Starting today [April 10th 2025], memory in ChatGPT can now reference all of your past chats to provide more personalized responses, drawing on ...
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
• Cory Doctorow
Pluralistic: Strange Bedfellows and Long Knives (21 May 2025)
Today's links Strange Bedfellows and Long Knives: My May 2025 Locus Magazine column. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2020, 2024 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: You keep re...
We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.
We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.
James O'Donnell and Casey Crownhart try to pull together a detailed account of AI energy usage for MIT Technology Review.
They quickly run into the same roadblock faced by everyone else who's tried...
Krebs on Security
• BrianKrebs
KrebsOnSecurity Hit With Near-Record 6.3 Tbps DDoS
KrebsOnSecurity last week was hit by a near record distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that clocked in at more than 6.3 terabits of data per second (a terabit is one trillion bits of data). The brief attack appears to have been a test run for a massive new Internet of Things (IoT) botnet capable of launching crippling digital assaults that few web destinations can withstand. Read on for more about the botnet, the attack, and the apparent creator of this global menace.
Gemini 2.5: Our most intelligent models are getting even better
Gemini 2.5: Our most intelligent models are getting even better
A bunch of new Gemini 2.5 announcements at Google I/O today.
2.5 Flash and 2.5 Pro are both getting audio output (previously previewed in Gemini 2.0) and 2.5 Pro is getting an enhanced reasoning mode called "Dee...
Google I/O Pelican
Tucked into today's Google I/O keynote, a blink-and-you'll miss it moment:
The pelican in the keynote was created by Alexander Chen. Here's the code they wrote with the help of Gemini, which uses p5.js to power the animation.
Tags: pelican-riding-a-bicycle, google-io, google
Product Pseudoscience
In his post about “Vibe Drive Development”, Robin Rendle warns against what I’ll call the pseudoscientific approach to product building prevalent across the software industry:
when folks at tech companies talk about data they’re not talking about a well-researched study fro...
cityofaustin/atd-data-tech issues
cityofaustin/atd-data-tech issues
I stumbled across this today while looking for interesting frequently updated data sources from local governments. It turns out the City of Austin's Transportation Data & Technology Services department run everything out of a public GitHub issues instance, which currently has 20,225 closed and 2,002 open issues. They also publish an exported copy of the issues data through the data.austintexas.gov open data portal.Tags: open-data, github, github-issues
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
• Cory Doctorow
Pluralistic: The meritocracy to eugenics pipeline (20 May 2025)
Today's links The meritocracy to eugenics pipeline: The search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2020 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. L...