MCP lets you ship faster 🔗
I’ve been thinking a lot about this quote from Steve Krouse (via Simon Willison):
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link
uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade 🔗
Agree with this post 100%. I switched to using uv about six months ago and it has made package management in python much easier.
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...
I think ‘agent’ may finally have a widely enough agreed upon definition to be useful jargon now 🔗
Via Simon Willison:
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...
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:
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
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:
GenAI
Anycrap.shop: Bring Impossible Products to Life 🔗
Is it satire? Is it an art project?
Beyond vibe coding: AI-assisted development 🔗
Via Simon Willison:
M365 Copilot + GPT-5 = big improvement
Have you tried M365 Copilot lately? It has gotten seriously good.
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...
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 ...
MCP
MCP lets you ship faster 🔗
I’ve been thinking a lot about this quote from Steve Krouse (via Simon Willison):
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.
If MCP is the USB-C of AI agents, A2A is their Ethernet 🔗
Via @ErikJonker@mastodon.social:
agents
I think ‘agent’ may finally have a widely enough agreed upon definition to be useful jargon now 🔗
Via Simon Willison:
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 ...
research integrity
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...
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...
funny
Anycrap.shop: Bring Impossible Products to Life 🔗
Is it satire? Is it an art project?
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.
China
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...
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...
AI
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.
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...
python
uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade 🔗
Agree with this post 100%. I switched to using uv about six months ago and it has made package management in python much easier.
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...
generative AI
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...
TIL
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 ...
Python
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 ...
GitHub Actions
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 ...
PyPi
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 ...
jekyll
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
GitHub Copilot
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
llm
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...
A2A
If MCP is the USB-C of AI agents, A2A is their Ethernet 🔗
Via @ErikJonker@mastodon.social:
AWS
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.
Grok
Grok 4 delivers surprises 🔗
The AP article quotes Simon Willison:
preprint
Back to Top ↑LLM
Back to Top ↑OpenAI
Reflections on OpenAI 🔗
A fascinating look into OpenAI the company:
markdown
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.
FDA
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] ...
hallucination
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] ...
DeepSeek
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...
education
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...
prompt injection
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...
Claude
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...
Microsoft
M365 Copilot + GPT-5 = big improvement
Have you tried M365 Copilot lately? It has gotten seriously good.
GPT-5
M365 Copilot + GPT-5 = big improvement
Have you tried M365 Copilot lately? It has gotten seriously good.
image integrity
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...
Switzerland
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.
open weights
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.
vibe coding
Beyond vibe coding: AI-assisted development 🔗
Via Simon Willison:
workslop
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...
uv
uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade 🔗
Agree with this post 100%. I switched to using uv about six months ago and it has made package management in python much easier.
pip
uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade 🔗
Agree with this post 100%. I switched to using uv about six months ago and it has made package management in python much easier.
APIs
MCP lets you ship faster 🔗
I’ve been thinking a lot about this quote from Steve Krouse (via Simon Willison):