I do not understand LinkedIn at all. I copy-pasted an infogram, mentioning the author and a company. Somehow the post has 10k views despite bringing almost no original value. linkedin.com/posts/dmstephe…

🥳 We would like to remind you with the whole lineup of our amazing Partners for the upcoming 9th edition of the Data Innovation Summit, happening this April in Stockholm! 📅 Get your tickets at hubs.li/Q02hyJH-0

A bit depressing, but running Mixtral 8x7b on a free T4 colab runtime is still significantly faster than running it on my (18GB) Macbook Pro M3.

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Here's a new emergent risk. Apparently you can jailbreak an LLM by slipping a banned term in using ASCII art. arxiv.org/pdf/2402.11753…

LLM bullshit knife, to cut through bs RAG -> Provide relevant context Agentic -> Function calls that work CoT -> Prompt model to think/plan FewShot -> Add examples PromptEng -> Someone w/good written comm skills. Prompt Optimizer -> For

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It's just dawned on me that Simon Willison's newsletter is actually sent several times per week, rather than weekly, and now I understand why I'm struggling so hard to keep up with my professional learning emails.

After years of stressing out the industry, Google is actually not going to eliminate 3rd party cookies.

Quote from WSJ article "Johnson & Johnson Pivots Its AI Strategy": And as the company tracked the broad value of AI, including generative AI, data science and intelligent automation, it found that only 10% to 15% of use cases were driving about 80% of the value,

Hard to believe

Just getting around to reading the July 9th edition of The Batch. Wish they'd do grammar checks and improve readability.

remember when people couldn't stop talking about the growth of #IOT? arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0…

Capital expenditures on AI data centers is likely around 20% of the peak spending on railroads, as a percentage of GDP, and it is still rising quickly. edwardconard.com/macro-roundup/…

Finally started uploading my talk on 'Essential Business Skills for Analytic Professionals'. Here is part 1 youtu.be/4osToTIoDpA

"I strongly expect that the entire concept of an agentic browser extension is fatally flawed and cannot be built safely." -Simon WIllison

America’s top companies keep talking about AI — but can’t explain the upsides - on.ft.com/3Kio9Sg via Financial Times

'My own interest in MCPs has waned ever since I started taking coding agents seriously. Almost everything I might achieve with an MCP can be handled by a CLI tool instead.' - Simon Willison

'Writing code is not the challenge anymore. Suddenly, the new bottleneck is how are you verifying all that code' - Johannes dahse

"The amount of value people are unlocking right now by throwing caution to the wind is hard to ignore, though." -Simon Willison on Moltbot