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Scaling long-running autonomous coding Wilson Lin at Cursor has been doing some experiments to see how far you can push a large fleet of "autonomous" coding agents: This post describes what we've learned from running hundreds of concurrent agents on a single project, coordi...

In his talk, I like the way Jake Nations pits easy vs. simple:

Easy means you can add it to your system quickly. Simple means you can understand the work that you’ve done.

I like this framing.

Easy means you can do with little effort.

Simple means you can understand what you do with little effort.

In other words: easy measures the effort in doing, while simple measures the effort in understanding the doing.

For example: npm create framework@latest or “Hey AI, build an instagram clone”. These both get you a website with little effort (easy) but do you understand what you just did (simple)?

It’s easy to get complexity, but it’s not easy to get simplicity.

(I get this is arguing semantics and definitions, but I find it to be a useful framing personally. Thanks Jake!)

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FLUX.2-klein-4B Pure C Implementation On 15th January Black Forest Labs, a lab formed by the creators of the original Stable Diffusion, released black-forest-labs/FLUX.2-klein-4B - an Apache 2.0 licensed 4 billion parameter version of their FLUX.2 family. Salvatore Sanfilipp...

Related: This article examines state-level AI governance in Australia. For analysis of the Commonwealth’s AI governance failures, see Slop for the People. For context on the newly announced federal AI Safety Institute, see Australia’s AI Safety Institute: Lessons from the UK and US.

The Commonwealth government attracts most attention for its AI policies. State and territory governments are also deploying AI systems in education, health, policing, transport, and social services.

Each state governs AI differently. Some are ahead of the Commonwealth. Others barely engage with it. None do it well.

Permission systems, Docker sandboxing, and log file secrets - why current approaches to securing coding agents fall short and what we might need instead.

Hier een lijst organisaties die voor hun primaire missie totaal afhankelijk zijn van Amerikaanse clouds, en waarbij de maatschappij ontwricht zou worden als ze hun werk niet meer konden doen, bijvoorbeeld door sancties over Groenland. Dit omvat bijvoorbeeld wel de veiligheidsregio’s en de SVB (Sociale Verzekeringsbank), maar niet het ministerie van economische zaken. Want als bij EZ het licht uitgaat is dat vervelend, maar we kunnen wel een paar weken zonder nieuw beleid.

I thought Scott would cop it first when he posted about what his solar system really cost him last year. "You're so gonna get that stupid AI-slop response from some people", I joked. But no, he got other stupid responses instead! And I got the AI-slop

Formats over apps.

[On agents using CLI tools in place of REST APIs] To save on context window, yes, but moreso to improve accuracy and success rate when multiple tool calls are involved, particularly when calls must be correctly chained e.g. for pagination, rate-limit backoff, and recognizin...

Today's links The world needs an Ireland for disenshittification: Regulatory arbitrage isn't just for tax cheats. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: "Fledgling"; Magnetic forest rings; Electable Mr Sanders; "Terrorists" were just blind guys. Upcoming ...

It's surprisingly capable more than five years later — as long as you temper your expectations.

Our approach to advertising and expanding access to ChatGPT The long-rumored introduction of ads to ChatGPT just became a whole lot more concrete: In the coming weeks, we’re also planning to start testing ads in the U.S. for the free and Go tiers, so more people can benefit...

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I’m in Oslo! Flighty is telling me I’ve flown in or out of here 43 times since a visit in 2014 set me on a new path professionally and, many years later, personally. It’s special here, like a second home that just feels…

On golden tickets, shortcuts, and sustainable business growth.

Open Responses This is the standardization effort I've most wanted in the world of LLMs: a vendor-neutral specification for the JSON API that clients can use to talk to hosted LLMs. Open Responses aims to provide exactly that as a documented standard, derived from OpenAI's R...

Today's links How the Light Gets In: The door is open a crack! Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Poitras v First Look; Aaronsw's "Against School"; I was investigated by the FBI. Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've b...

Automating the full lifecycle of 'quick' requests with Claude Code slash commands

When Wikipedia launched 25 years ago today, I heard about it almost immediately, because the Internet was small back then, and I thought “Well… good luck to those guys.” Because there had been online encyclopedias before Wikipedia, and anybody who really cared about this stu...