Tag: AI
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En abandonnant l’écriture à l’IA, nous risquons de nous empêcher de réfléchir
si écrire, c’est penser, un texte écrit avec l’assistance de ChatGPT ne matérialise-t-il pas les pensées du générateur de texte, plutôt que les nôtres ? Du contenu soi-disant neuf Et à quoi pense donc ChatGPT ? Heureusement, à rien : on l’a dit, le programme se contente de régurgiter les textes figurant dans son corpus d’entraînement, en en…
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ChatGPT Does Not Have Opinions
ChatGPT is not a human, and, unlike teachers & librarians & scholars, ChatGPT does not have a consistent, legible worldview. In my experience, it readily agrees with any premise you hand it — and brings citations. It may have read every article that can be read, but it has no real opinion — so it is not a credible…
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Interleaved Thinking
Interleaved thinking is essential for LLM agents: it means alternating between explicit reasoning and tool use, while carrying that reasoning forward between steps.This process significantly enhances planning, self‑correction, and reliability in long workflows. — Read on simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/3/minimax/
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MCP as Secure Gateway
Instead of a bloated API, an MCP should be a simple, secure gateway that provides a few powerful, high-level tools: download_raw_data(filters…) take_sensitive_gated_action(args…) execute_code_in_environment_with_state(code…) In this model, MCP’s job isn’t to abstract reality for the agent; its job is to manage the auth, networking, and security boundaries and then get out of the way. This makes…
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The evolution of Albanian AI governance – Marginal REVOLUTION
Rama said the “children,” or assistants, will record everything that happens in parliament and keep legislators informed about discussions or events they miss. “Each one…will serve as an assistant for them who will participate in parliamentary sessions, and will keep a record of everything that happens and will suggest members of parliament. These children will…
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Setting up a codebase for working with coding agents
For the most part anything that makes a codebase easier for humans to maintain turns out to help agents as well. — Read on simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/25/coding-agent-tips/
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AI as Support Staff
When I sit down for a work session, I want to feel like a surgeon walking into a prepped operating room. Everything is ready for me to do what I’m good at. — Read on simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/24/geoffrey-litt/
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Visual Features Across Modalities: SVG and ASCII Art Reveal Cross-Modal Understanding
We found that the same feature that activates over the eyes in an ASCII face also activates for eyes across diverse text-based modalities, including SVG code and prose in various languages. This is not limited to eyes – we found a number of cross-modal features that recognize specific concepts: from small components like mouths and…
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Measured AI | Note to Self
There are levels of abstraction everywhere in modern life. But the abstraction layer of “this will do it for you so you don’t have to” for AI tools is especially amorphous, opaque, and comes with real risks. Furthermore, AI chatbots are designed to make you feel good, not challenge you to think on your own.…
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AI’s Uneven Arrival – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
…most great people actually are ammunition. But what you need in your company are barrels. And you can only shoot through the number of unique barrels that you have. That’s how the velocity of your company improves is adding barrels. Then you stock them with ammunition, then you can do a lot. You go from…