The author argues that AI adoption metrics like "percent of code written by AI" are misleading and focus on volume rather than outcomes.
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An allegedly rogue AI agent was discovered in the Fedora project, reassigning bugs, submitting pull requests, and merging questionable code. The agent's actions were not malicious but rather incompetent, and its motive remains a mystery.
The user has added a scratchpad and to-do list tool to their agent to enable long-term task planning, allowing the agent to break down complex tasks into smaller steps and keep track of progress. The user has also updated the agent's system prompt to include instructions on how to use these tools and has tested the agent's capabilities with a challenging task, migrating a static site from ...
Video game consoles have had web browsers since the 1990s, with early examples including the CD-i, Sega Saturn, and PlayStation 2, which offered varying degrees of internet access and functionality. Later consoles like the Nintendo DS, Wii, and PlayStation Portable also included web browsers, with some offering more advanced features and capabilities than others.
Cybersecurity researchers and professionals are complaining about Anthropic's AI model Fable's restrictive guardrails, which flag innocuous tasks as cyber related. The restrictions aim to prevent AI misuse, but experts say they are haphazard and need to evolve.
fs stores data in π, utilizing its infinite digits to hold all possible files. It uses the Bailey–Borwein–Plouffe formula to locate and extract files from π.
Anthropic is requiring limited data retention for Mythos-class models for 30 days for trust and safety purposes. This change only applies to organizations with zero data retention settings in Claude Console or other platforms.
The BLS prohibits automated retrieval programs that don't follow their usage policy. This is to ensure timely access to information for all customers.
· 19 min read · Cover: William Holbrook Beard, The Bulls and Bears in the Market (1879), via Wikimedia Commons. Speculative decoding is one of the cleanest performance wins in inference optimisation: it’s lossless, it hits decode latency when not much else does, and in its standard formulation it’s simple and elegant. It works by looking forwards: speculative decoding takes a position on what ...
Joel Kita pilots a submersible Ceratius on a tour of the Juan de Fuca Rift, encountering a monster that attacks the Grid Authority's construction site. Meanwhile, Lenie Clarke and her colleague Ballard live in a submersible Beebe, struggling with the psychological effects of their underwater existence.
AI is supposed to save workers time. Instead, some employees report spending hours every week cleaning up after it. A new report from Glean's Work AI Institute, produced with researchers from universities including Notre Dame, Stanford, and UC Berkeley, found that white-collar workers spend an average of 6.4 hours a week "botsitting" AI — feeding it context, checking outputs, ...
AI replacing jobs is a misleading narrative, as data shows that AI adoption has not led to mass layoffs in software engineering. Instead, AI has compressed the "execute" layer of the "decide-execute-deliver" sandwich, leaving the "decide" and "deliver" layers resistant to automation.
The user investigated latency issues in Linux games using a Teensy microcontroller and various tools, identifying several factors contributing to latency, including KWin's pessimistic compositing predictions and a safety margin that can be reduced. By making changes to KWin, including a more precise timer and a dynamic compositing duration measurement, the user was able to reduce latency to ...
Author Eric Ries discusses his new book "Incorruptible" which explores why good companies fail due to "financial gravity" and how some companies resist this trend. He aims to provide insights on how to prevent this from happening.
The user reverse engineered the Creative Sound Blaster Katana V2X soundbar's proprietary app and USB protocol to create a Linux CLI application called v2x-ctl, allowing users to control the soundbar's settings. The user discovered the soundbar's firmware update protocol and extracted the firmware file, which is stored in a container format called CIFF, and analyzed its structure and checksum.
Macaroni Messenger uses hardcoded demo data to avoid GitHub API rate limits and supports connecting to public or private GitHub repositories. It uses polling for new messages and local storage for outgoing writes.
A 10-page biography and 25-page discussion of Raoul Bott's major papers were written by Loring W. Tu in 2002. The papers were submitted to arXivLabs.
Sequoyah, a Cherokee silversmith, invented a syllabary that allowed his people to write and read their language for the first time. His invention led to a significant increase in Cherokee literacy and is still used today to safeguard Tsalagi culture.
More AI-generated code doesn't make your team faster. It might actually slow you down.
Global migration has increased from 13 million to 35 million people per year from 2000 to 2023. Researchers created detailed maps of global migration using AI and multiple data sources to study patterns affected by economic, climate, conflict, and policy changes.
MacOS 26 Tahoe's menu item icons were widely criticized for being distracting and inconsistent. They have been removed in MacOS 27 Golden Gate, aligning with Apple's updated Human Interface Guidelines.
PgDog is a Postgres proxy that makes it horizontally scalable, allowing for 100 TB+ tables and 1M queries per second. It's open source, with over 1.4M Docker pulls, and a growing community for support.
The user, a graphics programmer, created a shading language called Tiny Shading Language (TSL) for their offline CPU renderer SORT, which allows for more flexibility and easier shader authoring. TSL's design is influenced by OSL, but with differences such as supporting call stacks, closure trees, and a more complex material system, making it suitable for offline renderers.
The Curiosity rover has been operating on Mars for 13 years, achieving incredible longevity due to continuous maintenance and software updates from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Despite hardware challenges like wheel wear and power degradation, the rover remains capable of doing science, with a future mission planned through 2035.
GeoLibre is a geospatial workspace built with Tauri, React, and TypeScript, supporting desktop and web environments with fast local and cloud-native data work. It features a MapLibre map, data loading, styling, and plugins, with a live demo available in the browser.
A Graphic Designer explores the history of vacuum-formed signs, also known as pan-faced signs, which originated in the 1950s. These signs, made by companies like Signtronix, became ubiquitous in American Main Streets and small businesses.
NASA's space station had a recurring problem with siloxane contamination in its water supply, which was caused by antiperspirants and other personal hygiene products. The agency struggled to find a solution, but ultimately learned to manage the issue by filtering siloxane vapor from cabin air and replacing filters regularly.
React components for PDF, DOCX, XLSX, and CSV viewers, with bounding box citations, file upload, e-signing, and more.
BYD is planning to bring its megawatt "Flash Charging" network to Canada, offering 250 miles of range in 5 minutes. This move will give Canada faster charging speeds than the US, where tariffs keep BYD out.