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SITUATION: there are 14 competing AI labs.
“We can’t trust any of these people with super-intelligence. We need to build it ourselves to ensure it’s done right!"
“YEAH!”
SOON: there are 15 competing AI labs.
(See: xkcd on standards.)
The irony: “we’re the responsible ones” is each lab’s founding mythology as they spin out of each other.
Martin Alderson
• Martin Alderson
I benchmarked 19 web frameworks on how efficiently an AI coding agent can build and extend the same app. Minimal frameworks cost up to 2.9x fewer tokens than full-featured ones.
Works on My Machine
• Scott Werner
On Pizzas, CSVs, and Building for Markets That Don't Exist Yet
The decline of reading and the rise of social media are again transforming what it feels like to be a thinking person.
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
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
Krebs on Security
• BrianKrebs
Most phishing websites are little more than static copies of login pages for popular online destinations, and they are often quickly taken down by anti-abuse activists and security firms. But a stealthy new phishing-as-a-service offering lets customers sidestep both of these pitfalls: It uses cleverly disguised links to load the target brand's real website, and then acts as a relay between the target and the legitimate site -- forwarding the victim's username, password and multi-factor authentication (MFA) code to the legitimate site and returning its responses.
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
• Cory Doctorow
Long running agentic products like Claude Code are made feasible by prompt caching which allows us to reuse computation from previous roundtrips and significantly decrease latency and cost. [...]
At Claude Code, we build our entire harness around prompt caching. A high prompt cache hit rate decreases costs and helps us create more generous rate limits for our subscription plans, so we run alerts on our prompt cache hit rate and declare SEVs if they're too low.
Tags: prompt-engineering, anthropic, claude-code, ai-agents, generative-ai, ai, llms
Taking some time off for medical reasons until early April
repebble.com/blog/cloudpebble-returns-plus-pure-javascript-and-round-2-sdk
As mentioned in our software roadmap, we’ve been working on many improvements to Pebble’s already pretty awesome SDK and developer…
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
• Cory Doctorow
