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Free users have had access to reasoning for a while. o4-mini and the initial GPT-5 launch both included reasoning modes for free users. They took away the button a few months ago a…

Interesting that all four models converge on such similar designs, for such short prompts.

Interesting read! Creating tests is highlighted as something Claude did well, but it strikes me that all the weaker rejected solutions could have been avoided if it were really goo…

The “correct”, elegant way for AI to interact with existing software would take decades and billions of dollars to build. Someone would have to do the hard work of building new API…

The team with the most star power and hype tends to attract the best young talent. If the next big breakthrough in AI comes from Anthropic, good chance it comes from some genius yo…

I wish them all the best and hope they succeed, but can’t help but suspect they’ve fallen into deep LLM psychosis. Even if you assume they can build this thing and it works as desc…

I actually think “explore Claude’s understanding of colors” is an interesting concept. A lot of fascinating cultural information gets compressed into LLMs.

Unfortunately for the people mad about this, I predict the only thing they will accomplish by pressuring the rsync maintainers, is to discourage everyone else from responsibly disc…

Somewhat useless article. To summarize, we have anecdotes suggesting they may work but no one has figured out how to prove or disprove it in a study, and the author has some doubts…

I was really unimpressed by the free Codex (for nodejs/react dev). I think it must be using a less powerful model or they’re limiting it in some other way.

You’re probably right in a literal technical sense, but a very large number of people (maybe most?) would choose “no” if properly informed and asked for consent, and lots of people…

The models are primitive right now, but we’re clearly heading toward “AI as sound synthesis, human as artist” - much like how producers currently use a DAW to assemble premade loop…

Isn’t this a permissions issue? Your “opt out” is using a GitHub access token that doesn’t allow it to happen.

I have the opposite experience: random HN/Reddit comments saying “this sucks” or “whoa this is a huge improvement” are the only benchmark that means anything. Standard benchmarks a…

Stars have been useless as signals for project quality for a while. They’re mostly bought, at this point. I regularly see obviously vibe-coded nonsense projects on GitHub’s Trendin…

Good day for Kling.

Ape thinking is a cognitive practice where a human deliberately solves problems with their own mind. Practitioners of ape thinking will typically author thoughts by thinking them w…

Their design approach wasn’t particularly unusual, so I’m not sure what that sentence means. I do miss the days when technical reports were clear and concise. This one has some int…

AI for help figuring things out and Timeshift for when you accidentally break something. One reboot and it’s fixed.

> but the number of problems requiring deep creative solutions feels like it is diminishing rapidly. If anything, we have more intractable problems needing deep creative solutions …