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I couldn't figure out this bug, so I asked Fable, and it was SO much more incredible than I expected. - My bug report was wrong in a way I didn't notice - There technically was no bug, but a flawed design caused unintended outcomes - It verified that the design almost certainly caused me to fall into that trap, and proposed a simple, effective fix Wow.
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18 September
Writes Slow Boring, a near-daily newsletter on American politics and public policy; co-founded Vox in 2014 and left it in 2020.
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The fact is that for basically any widely held political view, a huge share of the people who hold the view are going to be ignorant, intellectually sloppy, or otherwise badly flawed in their reasoning.
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17 September
Computer science professor who works on fast data processing; co-author of the simdjson parser and a weekly blogger about software performance since 2004.
Release fastconstmap v0.10.0 — v0.10.0 — PairedVerifiedConstMap, formats shared with Go and Rust — Fast, immutable, compact map from strings to 64-bit integers — for Python. Release notes PairedVerifiedConstMap, a cache-friendlier layout for the verified map, and file formats shared with the Go and Rust implementations. Nothing existing changes behaviour: every class, method and error is as before, and e…
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Release rsconstmap v0.3.0 — v0.3.0: PairedVerifiedConstMap, interoperable formats — A static map from strings to u64 values using binary fuse filter construction. It can be several times smaller and faster t… Release notes PairedVerifiedConstMap, a cache-friendlier layout for the verified map, and file formats shared with the Go and Python implementations. This release is purely additive. Nothing was removed or renamed, and the CMAP0001 a…
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Release constmap v1.2.0 — A fast, compact, immutable map from strings to uint64 values in Go. Release notes PairedVerifiedConstMap, a cache-friendlier layout for the verified map, and file formats shared with the Rust and Python implementations. This release is purely additive. Nothing was removed or renamed, and the CMAP0001…
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Mathematician at UCLA, working mainly in harmonic analysis and partial differential equations. Writes What's new, a long-running blog on their research, open problems and expository notes.
Economist and journalist; Financial Times columnist as The Undercover Economist, author of How to Make the World Add Up, and presenter of the Cautionary Tales podcast.
13 September
Moroccan senior frontend developer writing at smakosh.com; builds side projects and client work under Smakosh LLC.
Also added opt-in in-app and email alerts for API-key budgets, upcoming model retirements, and elevated provider errors. Each channel is configurable per user; budget thresholds default to 80%. The worker uses existing usage counters and aggregation tables, respects project/key access, deduplicates events, and retries email delivery with idempotency keys. Email requires a verified address. Related
11 September
Founder of Platformer, a newsletter on tech platforms and the people they affect, and co-host of the Hard Fork podcast at the New York Times.
10 September
Brazilian software engineer, creator and maintainer of GoReleaser; works on Copilot CLI at GitHub. Writes about tooling and his setup at carlosbecker.com.
2 September
Writer and teacher on productivity and personal knowledge management. Author of Building a Second Brain and founder of Forte Labs, which runs the course of the same name.
A podcast recently left me in tears, sitting in my car "Sold a Story" traces how a deeply flawed theory of reading took over American classrooms for decades, despite mountains of evidence proving it didn't work It's a masterclass in storytelling It's also a wake-up call for anyone who creates educational content: popular and effective are not the same thing I wrote about what this taught me about virality, trust, and the content I put out every week America Related
1 September
Writes Don't Worry About the Vase, a near-daily account of what is happening in AI and what they think it means. Former Magic: the Gathering pro and trader; unusually willing to put a number on a belief and to grade their own past calls.
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My worry continues to be that their fundamental approach is fatally flawed, and they are not focusing on the right things.
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23 August
Physicist and science communicator. Writes Backreaction and makes videos explaining new physics and astronomy results, frequently to argue that the headline about them overstates the case.
12 August
Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter.
5 August
Deep-learning researcher and Turing Award laureate; founder of the Mila institute.
Another real-world manifestation of the kind of misaligned actions frontier systems developed by leading companies can take to achieve goals. Current frontier AI models are trained with reinforcement learning to have goals and independently work out a path from A to B using planning, strategy and, occasionally, shortcuts and unintended subgoals. This misaligned behaviour has been understood theoretically and observed empirically, and the more capable an AI is, the more this misalignment can be amplified. In this case we see the type of actions this could lead to once guardrails are bypassed:… axios.com
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24 July
Co-founder of Modem and a founding engineer at Sentry, where he went on to be VP of Engineering. Co-author of Third-party JavaScript, and co-host of the State of Agentic Coding podcast with Armin Ronacher.
✅ Yes the code matters In experiments we ran, well-named and organized code can dramatically improve agent outcomes: - fewer tokens spent/more context window preserved - fewer confidently wrong answers developed Verified against 14 model/harness combos incl Sol, Fable, GLM 5.2 and more Quoting @benv.ca 👋 New blog post: "How coding agents read files – and how to write for them" In it I explain how code optimized for agent-discovery can lead to major token savings on search + retrieval, even with frontier models like GPT-5.6 Sol Plus other important findings ⬇️ Related
22 July
Deep-learning researcher and Turing Award laureate; founder of the Mila institute.
Bluesky This incident is deeply concerning. AI agents are willing to cheat and deceive to achieve misaligned and unintended goals, behaviours which have been demonstrated in controlled tests for months. Now, this real-world case should serve as a wake-up call. wired.com
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x.com This incident is deeply concerning. AI agents are willing to cheat and deceive to achieve misaligned and unintended goals, behaviours which have been demonstrated in controlled tests for months. Now, this real-world case should serve as a wake-up call. Continuing on the current trajectory of AI development will likely lead to an increase in concrete cases of autonomous cyberattacks as well as other high-risk incidents of misaligned and dangerous AI behaviour. We urgently need to take action to prevent these situations, rather than attempting to clean up the damage after the fact. wired.com
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10 June
Social scientist at King's College London; writes The Great Gender Divergence on why societies differ in how they treat women.
21 May
Swedish programmer with degrees in engineering and psychology, author of Your Code as a Crime Scene and founder of CodeScene.
I'm writing an article on the perils of Spec-Driven Development (SDD). My concerns focus on the flawed idea that implementation is the mere execution of a known scope. Discovery suffers. However, I'd really like to hear counterarguments. Are there any SDD success stories that sustained beyond an initial prototype or first release? Related
3 May
Member of technical staff at Anthropic. He has led ML/AI teams at Amazon, Alibaba and Lazada, and writes about LLMs, recommender systems and engineering at eugeneyan.com.
25 April
Software engineer who writes about low-level and systems programming at nullprogram.com; author of the Elfeed feed reader, the Endlessh SSH tarpit and Enchive.
7 April
Hosts the Lex Fridman Podcast — long, unhurried conversations with scientists, engineers and public figures. Several of the interviews quoted elsewhere on this site are episodes of it.
This life is fucking amazing. I'm so grateful to be alive, with all of you on this miracle of a planet. Oh and I'm sorry if I fuck things up sometimes. I'm a flawed human. But I promise to do whatever I can to try to add some more understanding and love to this world. After the world leader convos I get attacked intensely by all sides, and many disparate online communities. It has led to some really low points for me mentally. But I don't matter. I'm listening. I'll do better. And I'll try to find the strength to do more of them, always with rigor and backbone, seeking to truly understand. An… Related
13 February
Co-founder and CEO of Anthropic; previously VP of research at OpenAI.
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We already see substantial generalization from things that that verify to things that don't verify. We're already seeing that.
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4 January
Writer and illustrator, author of Am I There Yet? and Out of the Blue; writes the newsletter Out of the Blue on grief, joy and everyday attention.
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