AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity 🔗
Let’s be considerate about how we use GenAI to write emails, articles, or blog posts. When I first started, it was fun: Wow, I can crank out a 750-word essay...
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I think ‘agent’ may finally have a widely enough agreed upon definition to be useful jargon now 🔗
Via Simon Willison:
Python: The Documentary
Learning Python for data science seven years ago changed the trajectory of my career. This documentary is a great behind-the-scenes view of the people who br...
Anycrap.shop: Bring Impossible Products to Life 🔗
Is it satire? Is it an art project?
Beyond vibe coding: AI-assisted development 🔗
Via Simon Willison:
Switzerland releases its own AI model trained on public data 🔗
Switzerland released their own Llama-3-class model, trained exclusively on public sources while respecting crawler opt-out requests.
Are content credentials going mainstream? 🔗
The Content Authenticity Initiative is a collaborative effort to bring transparency to digital media. By using cryptographic signatures and standardized meta...
China Releases “AI Plus” Policy: A Brief Analysis 🔗
China released their new “AI Plus” strategy document last week when I was in Beijing. Here is some context and a translation of the policy document (via Bene...
M365 Copilot + GPT-5 = big improvement
Have you tried M365 Copilot lately? It has gotten seriously good.
Piloting Claude for Chrome 🔗
I’m not sure if we’re ready for agentic browser control. Yes, you can click each time to accept the risk, but how many of us read the T&Cs before we clic...
Chinese universities want students to use more AI, not less 🔗
While many educators in the West see AI as a threat they have to manage, more Chinese classrooms are treating it as a skill to be mastered. In fact, as th...
FDA’s artificial intelligence is supposed to revolutionize drug approvals. It’s making up studies 🔗
The FDA’s head of AI, Jeremy Walsh, admitted that Elsa can hallucinate nonexistent studies. “Elsa is no different from lots of [large language models] ...
Markitdown 🔗
This looks like a handy package for converting documents (PDF, .docx, .pptx, and more) to .md. There’s also a MCP server so you can use it with your LLM.
Reflections on OpenAI 🔗
A fascinating look into OpenAI the company:
Grok 4 delivers surprises 🔗
The AP article quotes Simon Willison:
The AWS Survival Guide for 2025: A Field Manual for the Brave and the Bankrupt 🔗
I haven’t had to figure out AWS IAM or review the Cost Explorer in a hot minute.
If MCP is the USB-C of AI agents, A2A is their Ethernet 🔗
Via @ErikJonker@mastodon.social:
Fighting AI Hallucinations One Citation at a Time: Introducing the LLM Citation Verifier
As AI writing assistants become more prevalent in academic and professional settings, we face a growing challenge: how do we maintain the integrity of the sc...
Enabling cookie consent on a Jekyll Minimal Mistakes site 🔗
Paul’s post got me about 80% of the way there, but I was still having issues with
TIL: Modern Python Package CI/CD with uv, Trusted Publishing, and GitHub Actions
Today I learned how to set up a complete CI/CD pipeline for Python packages using modern tooling. As a first-time package publisher, I wanted to make sure I ...
The bad boy of bar charts: William Playfair 🔗
Via Clarke & Esposito, an entertaining sketch written by Mike Woodward of William Playfair, who invented bar charts and pie charts in between misadventur...
Stop Building AI Agents 🔗
Hugo-Bowne Anderson1 argues that agentic workflows shouldn’t be your first choice because of their increased complexity and instability. Remember that GenAI ...
Automation of Systematic Reviews with Large Language Models 🔗
This looks very impressive, using LLMs to not only survey the literature but also synthesize the results and generate new statistically significant findings.
AI4Research: A Survey of Artificial Intelligence for Scientific Research 🔗
This is more of a survey than a critical review, and the equations on pages 8–10 seem unnecessary, but a potentially useful compilation map of what’s new as ...
Finding secrets in ‘Oops’ commits 🔗
As someone who gets confused beyond simple commits and pushes, this approach of spelunking for thought-to-be-deleted secrets in “oops” commits is a little sc...
Sometimes you just gotta get started 🔗
Via Jeff Triplett: