Links tagged “paper”

arxiv.org

published scores almost never say which inference engine produced them.

arxiv.org

writing more rules does not make an agent follow them.

arxiv.org

"Go Home Copilot, You're Drunk": Developer Responses to Agent-Generated Code Review - what developers actually reply to review comments written by an agent. The title is the finding.

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.

role-confusion.github.io

Security got a sharper frame too. Prompt injection as role confusion recasts the problem as a model that stops telling instructions and data apart, which beats yet another blocklist.

metr.org

A randomised trial in which experienced maintainers took 19% longer on their own repositories when using the tools — and believed they had been faster.

specstory.com

As a last minute addition, I’d like to start this first (pilot?) issue with an essay about the paradigm changes in software development by Greg Ceccarelli. Yes coding agents are bringing the cost of writing code very near to nothing, something that was very expensive until now. This is only the beginning, and I’m very excited about the changes it brings to our work, but also about the “idealistic” parts that become the new normal. More on this in the coming weeks.

arxiv.org

Paper introducing FlashText, a trie-based algorithm that searches or replaces keywords in a single linear pass over a document instead of regex's O(M×N).

arxiv.org

Proposes learning the optimisation algorithm itself with an LSTM, rather than hand-designing the update rule.

research.google.com

Google's VLDB 2010 paper on Dremel, a scalable interactive ad-hoc query system for read-only nested data that scans trillion-row tables in seconds.

fr.slideshare.net

White paper from the 2015 European Pre-Accelerator Summit defining what pre-accelerators do, how their programmes are structured, what they measure and how they fund themselves.

christophermeiklejohn.com

A curated bibliography of distributed systems papers grouped by topic — consensus, consistency, data structures, programming models — with a short list of recommended books.

nature.com

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