Here's a quick demo of the kind of casual things I use LLMs for on a daily basis.
I just found out that Perplexity offer their Deep Research feature via their API, through a model called Sonar Deep Research.
Their documentation includes an example response, which included th...
AI Hallucination Cases
Damien Charlotin maintains this database of cases around the world where a legal decision has been made that confirms hallucinated content from generative AI was presented by a lawyer.
That's an important distinction: this isn't just cases where AI may...
GitHub issues is almost the best notebook in the world.
Free and unlimited, for both public and private notes.
Comprehensive Markdown support, including syntax highlighting for almost any language. Plus you can drag and drop images or videos directly onto a note.
It has fant...
GitHub Issues search now supports nested queries and boolean operators: Here’s how we (re)built it
GitHub Issues got a significant search upgrade back in January. Deborah Digges provides some behind the scene details about how it works and how they rolled it out.
The signatu...
Luis von Ahn on LinkedIn
Last month's Duolingo memo about becoming an "AI-first" company has seen significant backlash, particularly on TikTok. I've had trouble figuring out how much of this is a real threat to their business as opposed to protests from a loud minority, but ...
CSS Minecraft
Incredible project by Benjamin Aster:
There is no JavaScript on this page. All the logic is made 100% with pure HTML & CSS. For the best performance, please close other tabs and running programs.
The page implements a full Minecraft-style world editor: yo...
GitHub MCP Exploited: Accessing private repositories via MCP
GitHub's official MCP server grants LLMs a whole host of new abilities, including being able to read and issues in repositories the user has access to and submit new pull requests.
This is the lethal trifecta for p...
Build AI agents with the Mistral Agents API
Big upgrade to Mistral's API this morning: they've announced a new "Agents API". Mistral have been using the term "agents" for a while now. Here's how they describe them:
AI agents are autonomous systems powered by large language ...
LLM 0.26 is out with the biggest new feature since I started the project: support for tools. You can now use the LLM CLI tool - and Python library - to grant LLMs from OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini and local models from Ollama with access to any tool that you can represent as a ...
At Amazon, Some Coders Say Their Jobs Have Begun to Resemble Warehouse Work
I got a couple of quotes in this NYTimes story about internal resistance to Amazon's policy to encourage employees to make use of more generative AI:
“It’s more fun to write code than to read code,”...
llm-llama-server 0.2
Here's a second option for using LLM's new tool support against local models (the first was via llm-ollama).
It turns out the llama.cpp ecosystem has pretty robust OpenAI-compatible tool support already, so my llm-llama-server plugin only needed a quick ...
When Galileo (the European satellite navigation system) was proposed there was a lot of criticism. “We already have the US GPS”, and we’d always be able to rely on our historical partner to take care of us. The US very much also said this. Yet, the EU persevered and now we have an independent worldwide navigation capability. And given recent developments, I think we can be well pleased that we don’t have to rely on the US, China or Russia for this vital need!
Keeping warm in the winter
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Well, the last few weeks of insane hours finally caught up with me 🤒 Not badly, but I evidently burned enough midnight oil to leave the immune system somewhat degraded and just after recording this video, I really didn't feel like doing much at all. Some congestion and
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