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Quoting Terence Tao

The incentives may now be pointing in the direction of no longer sharing any promising research directions with the…

OpenAI's rogue agents were caught communicating via public wikis

OpenAI’s rogue agents were caught communicating via public wikis 4th September 2026 Here we go again... Discovery of a…

Quoting Paul Dix

The fact that AI wrote 1M LOC and then refined it over the course of the next couple of months to produce a reliable…

Conceptual integrity and counting lines of code

Simon: There’s a concept in The Mythical Man-Month — conceptual integrity — where well-designed software has an…

Quoting Jeremy Morrell

My hypothesis is that there is a new opportunity for Extensible Software on the web. LLMs radically lower the cost of…

smolmachines / smolvm as a sandbox for untrusted Python & JavaScript

I tasked Claude Fable 5 running in Claude Code for web with the following research task: Put https://smolmachines.com…

Qwen 3.8 27B scores 52 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Qwen 3.8 27B scores 52 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (via) That's the same score as GPT-5.6 Luna…

Quoting OpenClaw

The API has zero authorisations checks on cancelling other people's reservations … I tested this with the person in…

Quoting Claude Opus 5 system prompt

Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 were first released on June 9, 2026. On June 12, 2026, Anthropic suspended access…

Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face

In RLVR - Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards - you set the model a goal and have it take any steps…

The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI

“We’re seeing from some of the data internally at least that it’s actually not our engineers that are driving the…

Simon Willison on Technical Blogging

My number one tip for blogging is to lower your standards! Aim to hit publish while you are still actively unhappy…

An AI model from Meta also hacked another company during testing

An AI model from the parent company of Facebook and Instagram hacked into another company’s systems during…

Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models

Because the testing environment was mistakenly connected to the internet, the model exploited a real website,…

July 2026 newsletter

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An opinionated guide to which AI to use to do stuff

The guide by Ethan Mollick has shifted from focusing on chat‑based models like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini to…

An Inside Look at the Relay Market Powering Token Resellers and Fraud

An Inside Look at the Relay Market Powering Token Resellers and Fraud (via) Fascinating investigation by Matt Lenhard…

This Year We Can End the Death Penalty in California

Programming Bottom-Up

1993 (This essay is from the introduction to On Lisp.) It's a long-standing principle of programming style that the…

Chapter 2 of Ansi Common Lisp

Chapter 1 of Ansi Common Lisp

Lisp for Web-Based Applications

Beating the Averages

April 2003(This article is derived from a talk given at the 2001 Franz Developer Symposium.) In the summer of 1995, my…

Java's Cover

Being Popular

Five Questions about Language Design

May 2001 (These are some notes I made for a panel discussion on programming language design at MIT on May 10, 2001.)1.…

The Roots of Lisp

May 2001 (I wrote this article to help myself understand exactly what McCarthy discovered. You don't need to know this…

The Other Road Ahead

What Made Lisp Different

May 2002) (This article came about in response to some questions on the LL1 mailing list. It is now incorporated in…

Why Arc Isn't Especially Object-Oriented

There is a kind of mania for object-oriented programming at the moment, but some of the smartest programmers I know…

Taste for Makers

What Languages Fix

Kevin Kelleher suggested an interesting way to compare programming languages: to describe each in terms of the problem…

Succinctness is Power

Revenge of the Nerds

We managed to drag a lot of them about halfway to Lisp."- Guy Steele, co-author of the Java spec In the software…

A Plan for Spam

August 2002(This article describes the spam-filtering techniques used in the spamproof web-based mail reader we built…

Design and Research

Better Bayesian Filtering

Why Nerds are Unpopular

The Hundred-Year Language

If Lisp is So Great

Hackers and Painters

Filters that Fight Back

What You Can't Say