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Quoting OpenAI Codex base_instructions

Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant to the user's query.

— OpenAI Codex base_instructions, for GPT-5.5

Tags: openai, ai, llms, system-prompts, prompt-engineering, codex-cli, generative-ai, gpt

Eric Migicovsky's Blog RSS Feed
28 Apr 22:24

Spring 2026 Dev Contest Results!

repebble.com/blog/spring-2026-dev-contest-results

Over 500 new Pebble apps and watchfaces! Thank you to all the developers who entered the developer contest It was so much fun following the…

Anil Dash
28 Apr 22:09

(One) Good AI Is Here

The cultural battles over AI have broken down over predictable lines in the past few years, with critics rightfully calling out the big AI platforms for training on content without consent, recklessly building without considering environmental impact, and designing platforms...

Mitchell Hashimoto
28 Apr 19:48

Ghostty Is Leaving GitHub

Experimental History
28 Apr 17:48 • Adam Mastroianni

The 3rd Annual Blog Post Competition, Extravaganza, and Jamboree

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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
28 Apr 15:57

Collective Speed Is Not the Summation of Individual Speed

I’ve been thinking about speed which is why Chris Coyier caught my attention in his latest piece discussing how AI might be 10✕ing the speed with which we code, but it’s not making our software 10✕ better: Faster individuals don’t make a fast company My mind immediately we...

Computer Things
28 Apr 15:14

Illegal vs Unwanted States

Simon Willison's Weblog
28 Apr 13:30

Quoting Matthew Yglesias

Five months in, I think I've decided that I don't want to vibecode — I want professionally managed software companies to use AI coding assistance to make more/better/cheaper software products that they sell to me for money.

— Matthew Yglesias

Tags: agentic-engineering, vibe-coding, ai-assisted-programming, ai

Steve Blank
28 Apr 13:00 • steve blank

Anthropic Mythos – We’ve Opened Pandora’s Box

This article previously appeared in The Cipher Brief. For a decade the cybersecurity community was predicting a cyber apocalypse tied to a single event – the day a Cryptographically Relevant Quantum Computer could run Shor’s algorithm and break the public-key cryptography systems most of the internet runs on. We braced for a one-time shock we […]

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
28 Apr 06:54 • Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: Vicky Osterweil's "The Extended Universe" (28 Apr 2026)

Today's links Vicky Osterweil's "The Extended Universe": How Disney killed the movies and took over the world. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Zappa v censorship; Chemistry set with no chemicals; Short cons; Mitsubishi's Dieselgate; "Bellwether." U...

Simon Willison's Weblog
28 Apr 05:51

What's new in pip 26.1 - lockfiles and dependency cooldowns!

What's new in pip 26.1 - lockfiles and dependency cooldowns! Richard Si describes an excellent set of upgrades to Python's default pip tool for installing dependencies. This version drops support for Python 3.9 - fair enough, since it's been EOL since October. macOS still sh...

Troy Hunt
28 Apr 05:21 • Troy Hunt

Weekly Update 501

This is so "peak 2026" - writing an equality policy to ensure people treat our AI bot with the same respect as they do their human counterparts. It's intentionally a bit tongue-in-cheek, but it's there for a purpose: we simply don't have

Simon Willison's Weblog
28 Apr 03:51

Introducing talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930

Introducing talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930 New project from Nick Levine, David Duvenaud, and Alec Radford (of GPT, GPT-2, Whisper fame). talkie-1930-13b-base (53.1 GB) is a "13B language model trained on 260B tokens of historical pre-1931 English text". talk...

Simon Willison's Weblog
28 Apr 00:42

microsoft/VibeVoice

microsoft/VibeVoice VibeVoice is Microsoft's Whisper-style audio model for speech-to-text, MIT licensed and with speaker diarization built into the model. Microsoft released it on January 21st, 2026 but I hadn't tried it until today. Here's a one-liner to run it on a Mac wit...

Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings
28 Apr 00:00 • Armin Ronacher

Before GitHub

GitHub was not the first home of my Open Source software. SourceForge was. Before GitHub, I had my own Trac installation. I had Subversion repositories, tickets, tarballs, and documentation on infrastructure I controlled. Later I moved projects to Bitbucket, back when Bit...

Entropic Thoughts
27 Apr 22:00 • kqr

Understanding systems

Some time ago I read an article on what makes a good tutor. It explicated many of the things I do when tutoring, so obviously I thought it was a great article. When I had a side gig as a private tutor, I covered mostly maths and physics, so that’s how I’ll frame thing...

Simon Willison's Weblog
27 Apr 19:15

Tracking the history of the now-deceased OpenAI Microsoft AGI clause

For many years, Microsoft and OpenAI's relationship has included a weird clause saying that, should AGI be achieved, Microsoft's commercial IP rights to OpenAI's technology would be null and void. That clause appeared to end today. I decided to try and track its expression o...

Simon Willison's Weblog
27 Apr 18:15

Speech translation in Google Meet is now rolling out to mobile devices

Speech translation in Google Meet is now rolling out to mobile devices

I just encountered this feature via a "try this out now" prompt in a Google Meet meeting. It kind-of worked!

This is Google's implementation of the ultimate sci-fi translation app, where two people can talk to each other in two separate languages and Meet translates from one to the other and - with a short delay - repeats the text in your preferred language, with a rough imitation of the original speaker's voice.

It can only handle English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, and Italian at the moment. It's also still very alpha - I ran it successfully between two laptops running web browsers, but then when I tried between an iPhone and an iPad it didn't seem to work.

Tags: google, translation

Dwarkesh Podcast
27 Apr 13:51 • Dwarkesh Patel

Pluralistic: The enshittification multiverse (27 Apr 2026)

Today's links The enshittification multiverse: It's a useful analogy. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Every complex ecosystem has parasites; Prison for "attempted infringement"; When We Were Robots in Egypt; Golfing in The Blitz; Copyright vs priva...