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  • Hacker News: AI Is Making Developers Dumb

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    Source URL: https://eli.cx/blog/ai-is-making-developers-dumb Source: Hacker News Title: AI Is Making Developers Dumb Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the potential drawbacks of relying on LLM-assisted workflows in software engineering. While acknowledging the productivity gains, it emphasizes the risks of diminishing critical thinking and foundational knowledge due to over-dependence on…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: My tools colophon now has AI-generated descriptions

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/13/tools-colophon/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: My tools colophon now has AI-generated descriptions Feedly Summary: My tools colophon now has AI-generated descriptions The /colophon page on my tools site lists all 78 of my tools along with their commit histories, including links to prompting transcripts. I wrote about how I built that. the…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Anthropic API: Text editor tool

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/13/anthropic-api-text-editor-tool/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Anthropic API: Text editor tool Feedly Summary: Anthropic API: Text editor tool Anthropic released a new “tool" today for text editing. It looks similar to the tool they offered as part of their computer use beta API, and the trick they’ve been using for a while in…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Steve Yegge

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/9/steve-yegge/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Steve Yegge Feedly Summary: I’ve been using Claude Code for a couple of days, and it has been absolutely ruthless in chewing through legacy bugs in my gnarly old code base. It’s like a wood chipper fueled by dollars. It can power through shockingly impressive tasks,…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Cutting-edge web scraping techniques at NICAR

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/8/cutting-edge-web-scraping/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Cutting-edge web scraping techniques at NICAR Feedly Summary: Cutting-edge web scraping techniques at NICAR Here’s the handout for a workshop I presented this morning at NICAR 2025 on web scraping, focusing on lesser know tips and tricks that became possible only with recent developments in LLMs. For…

  • Slashdot: DuckDuckGo Is Amping Up Its AI Search Tool

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    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/03/07/0432251/duckduckgo-is-amping-up-its-ai-search-tool?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: DuckDuckGo Is Amping Up Its AI Search Tool Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: DuckDuckGo has advanced its AI capabilities by integrating AI-generated answers in its privacy-centric search engine, allowing for varied responses while maintaining user privacy. The company aims to enhance user experience with an AI…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Demo of ChatGPT Code Interpreter running in o3-mini-high

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/5/code-interpreter/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Demo of ChatGPT Code Interpreter running in o3-mini-high Feedly Summary: Demo of ChatGPT Code Interpreter running in o3-mini-high OpenAI made GPT-4.5 available to Plus ($20/month) users today. I was a little disappointed with GPT-4.5 when I tried it through the API, but having access in the ChatGPT…

  • Slashdot: Researchers Find Less-Educated Areas Adopting AI Writing Tools Faster

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    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/03/03/2327219/researchers-find-less-educated-areas-adopting-ai-writing-tools-faster Source: Slashdot Title: Researchers Find Less-Educated Areas Adopting AI Writing Tools Faster Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Research from Stanford University indicates a growing reliance on AI language models (LLMs) across various sectors, significantly influencing professional communications. Notably, rural areas and populations with lower educational attainment are adopting these…