My new obsession: Ottoman-era data visualizations from Cerîde-i Adliyye, “The Justice Gazette,” a Ministry of Justice publication printed in Türkiye in the mid-1920s casualarchivist.substack.com/p/poetic-justi…

Published some notes on tobi lutke's autoresearch PR that improved the performance benchmark scores of the Liquid template language (which Tobi created for Shopify 20 years ago) by a hefty 53% simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/13/li…

The persisting importance of prompt engineering -- and now harness engineering -- is one of the best indicators of how far we are from AGI. A general system doesn't need a task-specific harness. And when provided with instructions, it is robust to phrasing variations.

this is the real state of things, which is both exciting, because there are so many low hanging fruit, but also because you are constantly being called upon to be a meta architect that is fighting a war against entropy at massive scale. luckily, you have the ability to convince

New video about NVIDIA Nemoclaw and how it is bad. I get mad (again) and rant about these companies leveraging fake security as a marketing tactic. youtube.com/watch?v=1xIC89…

Software horror: litellm PyPI supply chain attack. Simple `pip install litellm` was enough to exfiltrate SSH keys, AWS/GCP/Azure creds, Kubernetes configs, git credentials, env vars (all your API keys), shell history, crypto wallets, SSL private keys, CI/CD secrets, database

so... I audited Garry's website after he bragged about 37K LOC/day and a 72-day shipping streak. here's what 78,400 lines of AI slop code actually looks like in production. a single homepage load of garryslist.org downloads 6.42 MB across 169 requests. for a

The ultimate rate limiter on productivity gains from agents will be on critical stuff like security, compliance, governance, the ability to review the work of the agent, ensure that it’s compatible with regulations, and so on. We’ve been living in a little bit of la-la land

guys, i honestly do not like clowning on Gary. I don't find being the butt of a joke funny, so I imagine he does not either. But, this is what worries me about where we are going. We are actively encouraging an entire generation that the tech is there when its not, and a

i accidentally discovered one of the coolest features on the internet the Wikipedia app has a "nearby" feature that shows wikipedia articles around your location! i opened it and instantly fell into a rabbit hole of random places, local history and weird things around me try

For the second time in four years, the UK is facing high gas-fired electricity costs due to a global fossil crisis. The difference between four years ago and now? Wind and solar capacity deployed since 2021 is reducing gas reliance and saving an estimated £7 million per day!

Shocking result on my pelican benchmark this morning, I got a better pelican from a 21GB local Qwen3.6-35B-A3B running on my laptop than I did from the new Opus 4.7! Qwen on the left, Opus on the right

Mythos is not a bad name for a model but it would be better if Anthropic switched to using famous Claudes. Monet, Debussy etc. The final model that achieves AGI would obviously be Van Damme

(old but still very relevant) - all you have to do is reduce customer effort beyondphilosophy.com/wp-content/upl…

This equation will change how you see the world (the logistic map) - got here from the numberphile vid which is also good youtube.com/watch?v=ovJcsL… youtube.com/watch?v=ETrYE4…

This is such a bad mentality

not going to vibe code your way out of it: "the surface-level plausibility of AI code masks redundancy, leading to the silent accumulation of technical debt" arxiv.org/html/2601.2127…

Top tip for platform success - make sure an LLM can read your API docs