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Google's Gemini 3.5 Flash was the headline model at I/O - fast, but expensive and middling at coding. Why it makes more sense as a model built for Google itself, the TPU advantage, and Google's real weakness in coding agents.

Kefka is a Go-native shell sandbox with coreutils, Python via WebAssembly, and more. Learn the works of madness that went into making this happen!

printMessageForCodingAgents()

Pooch from Repkord dropped by my studio while he was in St. Louis, and asked a simple question:

Can a 3D printer's heatbed act as an antenna?

A fair question, as many an antenna is embedded in a PCB these days... and the traces on a PCB heatbed like the one used in Prusa's Core One look kinda like an antenna, if you squint the right way.

Really, anything (or anyone) can be an antenna, given enough power.

The enemy in your head is usually wearing your face. On projection, the villains we invent, and the chair we can't see ourselves sitting in.

Today's links Hold on for dear life: Not your keys, not your wallet, entirely your problem. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Who owns "Web 2.0"; EFF saves bloggers' sources; Non-porn porn; Redaction fails; Canadian Tories say markets, not government...

Over the last few months we’ve examined the extent of the construction industry’s productivity problem.

brew install pip install poetry add pdm add uv tool install conda

The trigonometric Fourier series is a beautiful mathematical theory that shows how to decompose a periodic function into an infinite sum of sinusoids. These are my notes on the subject, with some examples and the connection to linear algebra in Hilbert space.

sqlite AGENTS.md SQLite gained an AGENTS.md file five days ago - but it's not intended for their own development, it's presumably aimed at people who are pointing agents at the SQLite codebase. It includes: SQLite does not accept pull requests without prior agreement and/or...

A detailed look at a still from a 16-year-old film, which I recently found to make a good educational exercise, with the bonus of being fun.

To conclude with my SQLAlchemy 2 in Practice series, this article contains the solutions to all the exercises. If you'd like to support my work, I encourage you to buy this book, either directly from my store or on Amazon. Thank you!

Anthropic are strongly rumored to be about to have their first profitable quarter. Stories are circulating of companies surprised at how expensive their LLM bills are becoming from usage by their staff. I think this is because OpenAI and Anthropic have both found product-mar...

CHAOSS metrics were calibrated for human-speed contribution

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AI is great when it extends your brain. It gets dangerous when it quietly replaces the part that was supposed to think.

Gisteren verscheen de brief waarmee de staatssecretaris van Economische Zaken en Klimaat liet weten dat ze de overname van Solvinity door Kyndryl ging verbieden. Een forse cast mensen, waaronder 200.000 ondertekenaars van een petitie, hebben geholpen de zorgen over deze overname bovenop de stapel te krijgen. Ook heeft de nieuwe stichting The Firewall juridisch van zich laten horen. Ik schreef ook wat stukjes en mocht er in de Tweede Kamer over komen vertellen (en toen kwamen er zoveel mensen dat er vier overflowzalen nodig waren!

Today's links AI and a world without migrants: It's solipsism all the way down. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Manuscript rabbits; "What Will Come After"; Pastejacking; Terrorism phrenology; Vaccine waivers were promised 20 years ago. Upcoming app...

PICARD: Data, shields up

DATA: Brilliant! Shields can reduce damage we sustain. Not immunity. Not hubris. Just prudence. It's not precaution—it's strategy.

[camera shakes]

WORF: HULL BREACHES ON NINE DECKS

DATA: Here's what happened: you told me to raise shields, and I didn't

— Kyle Ferrana, @KyleTrainEmoji

Tags: ai-misuse, coding-agents, ai, llms