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What I had not realized is that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people.

— Joseph Weizenbaum, creator of ELIZA, in 1976 (via)

Tags: ai-ethics, ai, computer-history, internet-archive

Codex for Open Source

Anthropic announced six months of free Claude Max for maintainers of popular open source projects (5,000+ stars or 1M+ NPM downloads) on 27th February.

Now OpenAI have launched their comparable offer: six months of ChatGPT Pro (same $200/month price as Claude Max) with Codex and "conditional access to Codex Security" for core maintainers.

Unlike Anthropic they don't hint at the exact metrics they care about, but the application form does ask for "information such as GitHub stars, monthly downloads, or why the project is important to the ecosystem."

Via @openaidevs

Tags: open-source, ai, openai, generative-ai, llms, codex-cli

Today's links The web is bearable with RSS: And don't forget "Reader Mode." Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Eyemodule x Disneyland; Scott Walker lies; Brother's demon-haunted printer; 4th Amendment luggage tape; Sanders x small donors v media; US p...

At 4 AM in recovery, the machines that never sleep turned out to be exactly the right company.

Your Free Tier is Someone Else's Twenty-Minute Side Project

Claude Code has 2-3 million users. That's 1% of knowledge workers. The compute math gets scary from here.

Questions for developers:

• “What’s the one area you’re afraid to touch?”
• “When’s the last time you deployed on a Friday?”
• “What broke in production in the last 90 days that wasn’t caught by tests?”

Questions for the CTO/EM:

• “What feature has been blocked for over a year?”
• “Do you have real-time error visibility right now?”
• “What was the last feature that took significantly longer than estimated?”

Questions for business stakeholders:

• “Are there features that got quietly turned off and never came back?”
• “Are there things you’ve stopped promising customers?”

— Ally Piechowski, How to Audit a Rails Codebase

Tags: technical-debt, software-engineering, rails

Anthropic and the Pentagon

This piece by Bruce Schneier and Nathan E. Sanders is the most thoughtful and grounded coverage I've seen of the recent and ongoing Pentagon/OpenAI/Anthropic contract situation.

AI models are increasingly commodified. The top-tier offerings have about the same performance, and there is little to differentiate one from the other. The latest models from Anthropic, OpenAI and Google, in particular, tend to leapfrog each other with minor hops forward in quality every few months. [...]

In this sort of market, branding matters a lot. Anthropic and its CEO, Dario Amodei, are positioning themselves as the moral and trustworthy AI provider. That has market value for both consumers and enterprise clients.

Tags: bruce-schneier, ai, openai, generative-ai, llms, anthropic, ai-ethics

This series of articles chronicles the history, both real and pseudo, behind Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned. Believe that there is a secret and you will feel an initiate. It doesn’t cost a thing. Create an enormous hope that can never be eradicated because there is no root. Ancestors […]

After seeing Oliver Ettlin's 39C3 presentation Excuse me, what precise time is It?, I wanted to replicate the PTP (Precision Time Protocol) clock he used live to demonstrate PTP clock sync:

I pinged him on LinkedIn inquiring about the build (I wasn't the only one!), and shortly thereafter, he published Gemini2350/ptp-wallclock, a repository with rough instructions for the build, and his C++ application to display PTP time (if available on the network) on a set of two LED matrix displays, using a Raspberry Pi.

Hard-won wisdom from a week of fluorescent lights and beeping machines.

Hallo allemaal, Er is weer een boel te melden! Ik ga een beetje de politiek in, ik heb een prijs gekregen, twee zinvolle podcasts/radio-uitzendingen. En dat onze btw op het punt staat naar Amerika te gaan. Afsluitend links naar diverse interessante artikelen. Dit is de blogversie van mijn recentste nieuwsbrief. In mijn nieuwsbrief schrijf ik regelmatig over waar ik mee bezig ben, of wat ik belangrijk vind. Schrijf je vooral in (geheel zonder tracking of reclame) als je op de hoogte gehouden wilt worden van nieuwe artikelen!

Agentic Engineering Patterns > The defining characteristic of a coding agent is that it can execute the code that it writes. This is what makes coding agents so much more useful than LLMs that simply spit out code without any way to verify it. Never assume that code g...

Clinejection — Compromising Cline's Production Releases just by Prompting an Issue Triager Adnan Khan describes a devious attack chain against the Cline GitHub repository, which started with a prompt injection attack in the title of an issue opened against the repo. Cline we...

Introducing GPT‑5.4 Two new API models: gpt-5.4 and gpt-5.4-pro, also available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI. August 31st 2025 knowledge cutoff, 1 million token context window. Priced slightly higher than the GPT-5.2 family with a bump in price for both models if you go above 27...

Today's links Blowtorching the frog: If I must have enemies, let them be impatient ones. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Bill Cosby v Waxy; Rodney King, 20 years on; Peter Watts v flesh-eating bacteria; American authoritarianism; Algebra II v Stati...

Over the past few months it's become clear that coding agents are extraordinarily good at building a weird version of a "clean room" implementation of code. The most famous version of this pattern is when Compaq created a clean-room clone of the IBM BIOS back in 1982. They h...

In Majjit LSP, I described an idea of implementing Magit style UX for jj once and for all, leveraging LSP protocol. I've learned today that the upcoming 3.18 version of LSP has a feature to make this massively less hacky: Text Document Content Request

Inventors and impacts

Agentic Engineering Patterns > There are some behaviors that are anti-patterns in our weird new world of agentic engineering. Inflicting unreviewed code on collaborators This anti-pattern is common and deeply frustrating. Don't file pull requests with code you haven't...