personality clashes sent anthropic's models offline
axios reports internal friction and export control issues at anthropic, with key staff meeting the commerce department amid model safety concerns.
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why ai hasn't replaced software engineers
ai speeds up coding but software engineering bottlenecks remain in deciding what to build, verifying outputs, and deep human understanding.
luau-wasm 0.1a0 released as pyodide webassembly wheel
simon willison releases luau-wasm 0.1a0, packaging the luau programming language as a webassembly wheel for use with pyodide in the browser.
sqlite column provenance for datasette queries
simon willison explores methods to map sql query result columns back to their source table and column in sqlite, enabling richer data display in datasette.
publishing wasm wheels to pypi for pyodide
pyodide now supports installing packages with webassembly wheels directly from pypi, removing the need for maintainers to manually host them.
ai economics satire: circular money and inflated valuations
a satirical take on how ai investments can create circular revenue and inflated company valuations without real economic substance.
us orders anthropic to block fable 5 and mythos 5 access
the us government directed anthropic to suspend all access to its fable 5 and mythos 5 models for foreign nationals, citing national security concerns over a potential jailbreak.
olmo-eval: a workbench for iterative llm evaluation
olmo-eval is an open evaluation workbench for comparing model checkpoints during development with per-question analysis and flexible runtime policies.
pytorch meetup singapore draws apac ai builders
eighty engineers gathered for the first pytorch meetup singapore, covering inference, distributed training, and community governance.
run claude code with local models
how to connect claude code to ollama, lm studio, or llama.cpp for zero-cost, rate-limit-free coding sessions using local models.
open source community backs openenv for agentic rl
openenv becomes a community-governed interoperability layer for reinforcement learning environments, backed by major ai organizations.
claude fable is relentlessly proactive
simon willison describes how claude fable 5 autonomously debugged a ui glitch by inventing browser automation tricks, raising safety concerns.
build a minimal feature store from scratch
a hands-on guide to building a feature store with duckdb, parquet, redis, and fastapi, covering offline and online stores, materialization, and retrieval for both predictive ml and llm context.
pytorch profiling: from linear to fused mlp
a deep dive into pytorch profiling shows how nn.linear fuses bias into gemm kernels and how torch.compile removes cpu overhead in mlps.
jeremy howard on slowing recursive ai self-improvement
jeremy howard argues that if a lab wants to slow frontier ai progress, it should not use its own top model for that research, while others should have access.
python scripts to automate pdf tasks
five python scripts that merge, split, extract, stamp, redact, and inventory pdfs from the command line.
local agentic coding with claude code, ollama, and gemma 4
a guide to building a local agentic programming stack using ollama, gemma 4, and claude code, with setup steps and verification.
helion kernels speed up vllm fp8 inference
helion, a pytorch-native kernel dsl, improves vllm inference throughput for qwen3 models with fp8 quantization on nvidia gpus.