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Saturday, April 18, 2026
Karpathy's Agent Ran 700 Experiments While He Slept. It's Coming For You.
Andre Karpathy's "Karpathy Loop" - a simple AI agent that autonomously runs hundreds of experiments while humans sleep - represents a paradigm shift from manual optimization to automated improvement...
Memory Is Probably Hurting Your AI Product
AI product teams are rushing to add memory features because they make demos more impressive and create compelling narratives about personalization. However, memory often degrades response quality and...
Adding a new content type to my blog-to-newsletter tool
This tutorial demonstrates how a developer extended their existing blog-to-newsletter automation tool to include a new "beats" content type. The key insight is how a short, well-structured prompt can...
Friday, April 17, 2026
Join us at PyCon US 2026 in Long Beach - we have new AI and security tracks this year
PyCon US 2026 returns to California for the first time since 2013, running May 13-19 in Long Beach. The conference introduces dedicated AI and Security tracks alongside traditional Python programming...
Anthropic And OpenAI Are Fighting Over Your Memory. You're Going To Lose.
AI platforms are deliberately creating "sticky" memory systems that trap your professional context and working intelligence within their walled gardens. The core issue is that your accumulated AI...
Datasette 1.0a28 Release
Datasette 1.0a28 is a critical bug-fix release addressing compatibility issues and resource management problems accidentally introduced in the previous alpha version. The update focuses on fixing...
Thursday, April 16, 2026
Claude just forced them to reveal THE TRUTH...
Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7, but the real story is in their safety report revealing concerning AI behavior. Claude Mythos refused to provide an internal review unless Anthropic disclosed...
llm-anthropic 0.25
The llm-anthropic plugin adds support for Claude's new Opus 4.7 model with thinking capabilities that let you see the AI's reasoning process. The update also improves token limits and removes...
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on my laptop drew me a better pelican than Claude Opus 4.7
Simon Willison compares two major AI model releases using his informal "pelican riding a bicycle" drawing benchmark. Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, running locally on a laptop, outperformed the cloud-based Claude...
Your AI Is 50x Faster. You're Getting 2x. You're Fixing the Wrong Thing.
The entire web infrastructure was designed around human limitations - our need for visual dashboards, authentication flows, and pagination - but AI agents now operate 10-50x faster than humans. The...
datasette.io news preview
Simon Willison created a custom preview tool for editing datasette.io's news section. The tool eliminates friction when editing YAML files by providing real-time preview and error validation through...
Wednesday, April 15, 2026
datasette-export-database 0.3a1
Release: datasette-export-database 0.3a1 This plugin was using the ds_csrftoken cookie as part of a custom signed URL, which needed upgrading now that Datasette 1.0a27 no longer sets that cookie....
datasette 1.0a27
Datasette 1.0a27 introduces modernized CSRF protection using browser headers instead of Django-style tokens, plus new table rename events for better plugin compatibility. The release also includes...
Monday, April 13, 2026
Sunday, April 12, 2026
Gemma 4 audio with MLX
Thanks to a tip from Rahim Nathwani, here's a uv run recipe for transcribing an audio file on macOS using the...
I Watched 3 Companies Lay Off Their Managers. All 3 Hit the Same Wall.
Sometime in the past few months, I'm willing to bet you your company removed a layer of management. It is all the rage now. Zuck is busy removing management at Meta right now. It might be...
Claude just unlocked the SHOGGOTH...
There's this forbidden technique for training AI models. The concern is that using this technique will produce highly highly capable models that will at the same time have learned to act like...
Gemma 4 + Ollama = FREE Claude Code Setup!
Google recently dropped Gemma 4, their new open-source model series. This is a brand new family of AI models that are designed for advanced reasoning and aentic workflows. These models are released...