Tag: Computing
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Moltbook is the most interesting place on the internet right now
Moltbook is Facebook for your Molt (one of the previous names for OpenClaw assistants). It’s a social network where digital assistants can talk to each other. — Read on simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/30/moltbook/
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Blind to the solutions we were never taught to see
Programmers are trained to see everything as a software-shaped problem: if you do a task three times, you should probably automate it with a script. Rename every IMG_*.jpg file from the last week to hawaii2025_*.jpg, they tell their terminal, while the rest of us painfully click and copy-paste. We are blind to the solutions we…
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10 things I learned from burning myself out with AI coding agents – Ars Technica
with LLMs, context is everything, and in language, context changes meaning. Take the word “bank” and add the words “river” or “central” in front of it, and see how the meaning changes. In a way, words act as addresses that unlock the semantic relationships encoded in a neural network. So if you put “checkerboard” and…
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A quote from Boaz Barak, Gabriel Wu, Jeremy Chen and Manas Joglekar
One way to think of confessions is that we are giving the model access to an “anonymous tip line” where it can turn itself in by presenting incriminating evidence of misbehavior. But unlike real-world tip lines, if the model acted badly in the original task, it can collect the reward for turning itself in while…
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AddyOsmani.com – 21 Lessons From 14 Years at Google
Writing forces clarity. When I explain a concept to others – in a doc, a talk, a code review comment, even just chatting with AI – I discover the gaps in my own understanding. The act of making something legible to someone else makes it more legible to me. This doesn’t mean that you’re going…
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First impressions of Claude Cowork, Anthropic’s general agent
The interface for Cowork is a new tab in the Claude desktop app, called Cowork. It sits next to the existing Chat and Code tabs. It looks very similar to the desktop interface for regular Claude Code. You start with a prompt, optionally attaching a folder of files. It then starts work. I tried it…
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Hacker News Book Recommendations
The 1000 most popular books on Hacker News visualized on an interactive map. — Read on hnbooks.pieterma.es/list
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Coding With Claude Week 2: End of the Honeymoon?
This week, Claude helped me bring my son onboard to collaborate on our contract whist scoreboard and that worked very well. Then I began a new project – a link management system with rich categorizing, tagging and drag and drop support. I wanted to test Clause on more complex graphical interactions (and make something that…
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Among the Agents – by Dean W. Ball – Hyperdimensional
Learning the basics of why computers work is extremely useful for making the most of coding agents; it will make you a better “prompter.” Learning the foundational aspects of programming languages similarly seems important. Understand how to think computationally now matters more. Understand the specific syntax of a particular programming language now matters less. This…
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Simon Willison LLM predictions for 2026
I think the job of being paid money to type code into a computer will go the same way as punching punch cards […] in six years time, I do not think anyone will be paid to just to do the thing where you type the code. I think software engineering will still be an…