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ContextFS is a library that lets you construct a virtual filesystem using a router-style API. It's mountable via NFS or `just-bash`, and useful for providing agents with hierarchic…

All the same they choose to highlight basic prose (and internal knowledge, for that matter) in their marketing material. They’ve achieved a lot to make recent models more reliable …

On the whole GPT-4 to GPT-5 is clearly the smallest increase in lucidity/intelligence. They had pre-training figured out much better than post-training at that point though (“as an…

This is no different from a web app though, there’s no obvious need to reinvent the wheel. We know how to do this very very well: the underlying TCP connection remains active, we m…

I think some of the advanced features around sampling from the calling LLM could theoretically benefit from a bidirectional stream. In practice, nobody uses those parts of the prot…

MCP should just have been stateless HTTP to begin with. There is no good reason for almost any of the servers I have seen to be stateful at the request/session level —- either the …

Their patchy JSON schema support for tool calls & structured generation is also very annoying… things like unions that you’d think are table stakes (and in fact work fine with both…

Funnily enough I recently noticed that the X app on iOS started doing this for me… on ads. If I place my finger on an ad while scrolling down, without fault it opens the ad overlay…

The Rust implementation has it as an experimental extension ( https://github.com/facebookexperimental/starlark-rust/blob/m... )

To be fair, in my experience ticket checking in Luxembourg was (at least in the city buses) so incredibly lax already that not a lot of revenue will be lost by this. All the same i…

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I think that this is at least partially attributable to the average understanding of English in those countries. When you are watching a movie with subtitles, but have absolutely n…