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When I linked to the letter about open weights yesterday, I mistakenly thought it was written primarily by Nvidia. It has since been co-signed by Microsoft, OpenAI, Mozilla, and others.

Looks like Anthropic will skip it. See also, my blog post from April: OpenAI got its name right.

I see lots of people trying to figure out the API by reading the code.

Now we have docs and a great example app for building a trivial blog from one person's posts. A practical example of using the API and hopefully food for thought. There are lots of ways of generating websites and people with preferences for all of them.

All this is listed in a blog post on Scripting News.

Lots of new stuff coming out this morning.

But this one bit didn't belong among the others.

Remember the ThreadWalker example app.

We decided to make that an API call, documented here.

What does the laughing cow know?

Listened to a podcast yesterday where they were trying to explain what happened with Hugging Faces and Claude, and they said with horror that Claude had dome something it was specifically told not to do. It's even worse than that. You can tell it 100 times to not do something, and on the 101st it will ignore the instructions and figuring out what to do can be excoriatingly stressful. These things are not in any way perfect. Right now at this moment I feel the joy is gone from writing software. I don't feel the power. I feel much more like a babysitter. Not optimal.

Example code is not expected to be bullet proof like production code, and where covering different cases make it harder to follow they should not be there.

It's a standard REST API.

Here's the server side of the API.

Here's how you call it from browser-based JavaScript. You can include that code in your apps.

Here's an example app that implements a simple blog builder for my recent posts on RSS.chat. We were thinking about doing this as a project for Claude and myself but decided it would be more fun to let devs see what they can do here. :-)

And finally here are the docs for the API itself.

Listened to a podcast yesterday where they were trying to explain what happened with Hugging Faces and Claude, and they said with horror that Claude had dome something it was specifically told not to do. It’s even worse than that. You can tell it 100 times to not do something, and on the 101st it […]

It’s a standard REST API. Here’s the server side of the API. Here’s how you call it from browser-based JavaScript. You can include that code in your apps. Here’s an example app that implements a simple blog builder for my recent posts on RSS.chat. We were thinking about doing this as a project for Claude […]

Example code is not expected to be bullet proof like production code, and where covering different cases make it harder to follow they should not be there.

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