botwerks
• steve ulrich
SlopCodeBench: Benchmarking How Coding Agents Degrade Over Long-Horizon Iterative Tasks
someone finally brings this topic to the fore. even small vibe coded projects can be horrifying under the hood.
nice test coverage, but whoa!
Dave + Claude is far more powerful than either on their own.
Claude, as we're finishing a project: "The diving is what makes it a test of the network, not just the file: it doesn't take the feed's word for anything, it goes and knocks on every door the feed points to."
botwerks
• steve ulrich
A post-mortem on a self-hosted app that turns my Hardcover reading history into individualized, AI-generated book recommendations, verified against real catalog data, and why the build kept echoing the individualized-pathway work I do at NXT GEN Teach.
Scattering
• Mark Taylor
Their first date was a picnic by the river. He arrived early at the spot he had suggested: his favourite place on the south bank. She arrived right on time, and right across from him, waving from the north bank. They never settled whether the pin he sent her was
stoeps - tech, life & links
• Christoph Stoettner
A new Gnome extension, a word worm (I thought we got over Office worms ages ago) and an OpenAI parrot attacked Hugging Face. Interesting week and some stuff to read. Have fun.
If media is not framing the “rogue AI” from OpenAI and Anthropic as either done intentionally or pure incompetence, then they are simply doing “CEO said a thing” journalism.
A typeface you can view in two ways by focusing or unfocusing your eyes. This lets you show two different messages using the same ‘space’.
Taking a 'safely' disclosed WordPress RCE most of the way to a full unauthenticated exploit chain with public research, a patch diff, and an LLM, and the rest with a public PoC.
Hugh Howey had some insights about the publishing industry and the future of being a writer in the age of AI. Some highlights:
One prompt, and all this spills out. And if your goal is a blog post, you’re gonna love this era. If your goal is the joy of thinking in words, nothing has changed. So this is the real part, right here: Doing a thing for the love of the thing is no different than it ever was. The problem is, there aren’t many people for whom this applies'
once or twice
Save Fark! Comcast doing Comcast things, a new secret app from Terry Godier, remember to be silly, and my thoughts on iOS 27 public beta 2
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Weak Notes — The Everything Feed
• Quoting Andrew Shell
I too love RSS.
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Andrew Shell's Weblog
• Andrew Shell
Today, I launched I ♥ RSS, a directory for people who love RSS. I’ve already added the badge to my footer and submitted my site to the directory. It also shows a nice live blogroll on the homepage (powered by FeedLand). If you love RSS as much as I do, take a look and add your own […]
