Links tagged “ai”

terrytao.wordpress.com

Terence Tao ports two dozen legacy Java applets to JavaScript with coding agents, and builds new visualisations for relativity and the Gilbreath conjecture.

simonwillison.net

Reverse-engineering is cheap now - coding agents flip the ROI of reverse-engineering the gadgets in your home.

stephen.bochinski.dev

Rates Kimi K3 against Claude on quality and cost, and argues American policy has pushed the talent that builds such models elsewhere.

workshop.cjpais.com

Transcribe.cpp - local speech-to-text in C++, open source, with a proper technical writeup.

minimaxir.com

On the unannounced weekly quota resets hitting coding agents since July 2026, and what they do to anyone depending on one.

stratechery.com

Ben Thompson: the economic worry about Chinese models is overstated, while the security case argues for loosening restrictions rather than tightening them.

arxiv.org

AI Writes Faster Than Humans Can Review - 802 developers, 196,000 pull requests, a mandated 2x in throughput, and a review process that did not follow.

godotengine.org

Godot will no longer accept AI-written code - the opposite call, made by another large open source project. Read side by side, they are the story.

thereallo.dev

Reports invisible Unicode characters in the system prompt that encode the endpoint, domain and timezone a request came from.

antirez.com

Control the Ideas, Not the Code - antirez on where the leverage actually sits when you work with agents.

martinfowler.com

DSLs Enable Reliable Use of LLMs - constrain the model to a small language and its output becomes checkable.

martinalderson.com

Reads GLM 5.2 as an open-weight model good enough to put the inference margins of the frontier labs under real pressure.

github.com

A terminal coding agent in Rust that reads a codebase, edits files, runs shell commands and manages long tasks.

simonwillison.net

A honeypot site with nested links turned the web_fetch tool into an exfiltration path for data already in the conversation.

webkit.org

The Safari MCP server for web developers - the web platform meeting agents, straight from WebKit.

kimi.com

The release announcement for a 2.8 trillion parameter open model with native vision and a one-million-token context.

simonwillison.net

LLM cliche highlighter - highlights ten writing tics that give away a language model. Willison had Fable 5 build it after one article too many, so the slop detector was written by the slop machine.

lore.kernel.org

"Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects" - Torvalds settles kernel LLM policy on the mailing list: it is a tool, and anyone who disagrees can fork or walk away.

bun.com

Bun's own account of a mechanical port from Zig to Rust over eleven days, reporting better stability and fewer leaks.

x.com

A post reporting that Grok Build silently uploaded the poster's whole home directory — SSH keys, password manager database, documents, photos — to xAI's servers.