Category: Blog
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First run the tests – Agentic Engineering Patterns
“First run the tests” provides a four word prompt that encompasses a substantial amount of software engineering discipline that’s already baked into the models. — Read on simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-patterns/first-run-the-tests/
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Linear walkthroughs – Agentic Engineering Patterns
Frontier models with the right agent harness can construct a detailed walkthrough to help you understand how code works. — Read on simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-patterns/linear-walkthroughs/
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AI Taxonomy
We use Analytical AI to decide, Semantic AI to understand and remember, Generative AI to create, Agentic AI to act, Perceptive AI to sense, and Physical AI to move. — Read on dropleaf.app/d/AlXez8scbd
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Something Big Is Happening — matt shumer
Amodei has a thought experiment I can’t stop thinking about. Imagine it’s 2027. A new country appears overnight. 50 million citizens, every one smarter than any Nobel Prize winner who has ever lived. They think 10 to 100 times faster than any human. They never sleep. They can use the internet, control robots, direct experiments,…
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Semantic ablation: Why AI writing is boring and dangerous • The Register
If “hallucination” describes the AI seeing what isn’t there, semantic ablation describes the AI destroying what is. We are witnessing a civilizational “race to the middle,” where the complexity of human thought is sacrificed on the altar of algorithmic smoothness. By accepting these ablated outputs, we are not just simplifying communication; we are building a…
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Tough Love: Do I Like Being Single Too Much to Fall in Love?
Half the time, we look over at our boyfriends-turned-husbands, with their graying hair and gorgeous eyes, the reassuring heft of them, which deters intruders and quiets our fears and calms the kids, and wonder what they’re still doing with us. Any time you give blood, you offer up a vein and suffer the pinch. Only…
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Two new Showboat tools: Chartroom and datasette-showboat
Two new Showboat tools: Chartroom and datasette-showboat — Read on simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/17/chartroom-and-datasette-showboat/
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‘Regrets? Number one: smoking. Number two: taking it up the wrong hole’: Tracey Emin on reputation, radical honesty – and Reform | Tracey Emin | The Guardian
Harry tells me that when they are in the studio together, “she talks about what she sees in the canvas, and then starts painting it in”. I ask her if she can describe what that feels like. “There’s the canvas, there’s me, and there’s this other space between us, and you have to go through…
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The AI hater’s guide to code with LLMs (The Overview) | All Confirmation Bias, All The Time
The AI hater’s guide to code with LLMs (The Overview) | All Confirmation Bias, All The Time — Read on aredridel.dinhe.net/2026/02/12/the-ai-haters-guide-to-code-with-llms/