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Following up on our previous work on verbalized eval awareness : we are sharing a post investigating the emergence of metagaming reasoning in a frontier training run. Metagaming is a more general, and…

Release: datasette 1.0a26 Datasette now has a mechanism for assigning semantic column types. Built-in column types include url , email , and json , and plugins can register additional types using the …

Snowflake Cortex AI Escapes Sandbox and Executes Malware PromptArmor report on a prompt injection attack chain in Snowflake's Cortex Agent , now fixed. The attack started when a Cortex user asked the …

Great news—we’ve hit our (very modest) performance goals for the CPython JIT over a year early for macOS AArch64, and a few months early for x86_64 Linux. The 3.15 alpha JIT is about 11-12% faster on …

OpenAI today: Introducing GPT‑5.4 mini and nano . These models join GPT-5.4 which was released two weeks ago . OpenAI's self-reported benchmarks show the new 5.4-nano out-performing their previous GPT…

Release: llm 0.29 Adds support for OpenAI's new models gpt-5.4 , gpt-5.4-mini , and gpt-5.4-nano .

If you do not understand the ticket, if you do not understand the solution, or if you do not understand the feedback on your PR, then your use of LLM is hurting Django as a whole. [...] For a reviewer…

Agentic Engineering Patterns > LLMs are restricted by their context limit - how many tokens they can fit in their working memory at any given time. These values have not increased much over the past t…

Introducing Mistral Small 4 Big new release from Mistral today (despite the name) - a new Apache 2 licensed 119B parameter (Mixture-of-Experts, 6B active) model which they describe like this: Mistral …

Use subagents and custom agents in Codex Subagents were announced in general availability today for OpenAI Codex, after several weeks of preview behind a feature flag. They're very similar to the Clau…

The point of the blackmail exercise was to have something to describe to policymakers—results that are visceral enough to land with people, and make misalignment risk actually salient in practice for …

Tidbit: the software-based camera indicator light in the MacBook Neo runs in the secure exclave¹ part of the chip, so it is almost as secure as the hardware indicator light. What that means in practic…

Coding agents for data analysis Here's the handout I prepared for my NICAR 2026 workshop "Coding agents for data analysis" - a three hour session aimed at data journalists demonstrating ways that tool…

Agentic Engineering Patterns > As with any tool, understanding how coding agents work under the hood can help you make better decisions about how to apply them. A coding agent is a piece of software t…

Museum: John M. Mossman Lock Collection The General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of New York is home to the John M. Mossman Lock Collection, likely the world's largest collection of …

Agentic Engineering Patterns > I use the term agentic engineering to describe the practice of developing software with the assistance of coding agents. What are coding agents ? They're agents that can…

GitHub’s slopocalypse – the flood of AI-generated spam PRs and issues – has made Jazzband’s model of open membership and shared push access untenable. Jazzband was designed for a world where the worst…

I was a speaker last month at the Pragmatic Summit in San Francisco, where I participated in a fireside chat session about Agentic Engineering hosted by Eric Lui from Statsig. The video is available o…

1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6 Here's what surprised me: Standard pricing now applies across the full 1M window for both models, with no long-context premium. OpenAI…

Simply put: It’s a big mess, and no off-the-shelf accounting software does what I need. So after years of pain, I finally sat down last week and started to build my own. It took me about five days. I …

Shopify/liquid: Performance: 53% faster parse+render, 61% fewer allocations PR from Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke against Liquid, Shopify's open source Ruby template engine that was somewhat inspired by Dj…

MALUS - Clean Room as a Service Brutal satire on the whole vibe-porting license washing thing ( previously ): Finally, liberation from open source license obligations. Our proprietary AI robots indepe…

Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It Epic piece on AI-assisted development by Clive Thompson for the New York Times Magazine, who spoke to more than 70 software developer…

Here's what I think is happening: AI-assisted coding is exposing a divide among developers that was always there but maybe less visible. Before AI, both camps were doing the same thing every day. Writ…