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  • 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: 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…

  • Hacker News: QwQ-32B: Embracing the Power of Reinforcement Learning

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    Source URL: https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwq-32b/ Source: Hacker News Title: QwQ-32B: Embracing the Power of Reinforcement Learning Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the advancements in Reinforcement Learning (RL) as applied to large language models, particularly highlighting the launch of the QwQ-32B model. It emphasizes the model’s performance enhancements through RL and…

  • Hacker News: Yes, Claude Code can decompile itself. Here’s the source code

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    Source URL: https://ghuntley.com/tradecraft/ Source: Hacker News Title: Yes, Claude Code can decompile itself. Here’s the source code Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses the implications of using AI in software engineering, specifically focusing on a newly released AI coding assistant named Claude Code by Anthropic. It highlights the use…

  • Hacker News: Show HN: MyCoder, an open source Claude-Code alternative

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    Source URL: https://github.com/drivecore/mycoder Source: Hacker News Title: Show HN: MyCoder, an open source Claude-Code alternative Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text describes MyCoder, a command-line AI agent specialized in coding tasks. It utilizes a modular architecture, enabling it to perform complex operations such as code modifications, dependency updates, and documentation…

  • Hacker News: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLM [pdf]

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    Source URL: https://martins1612.github.io/emergent_misalignment_betley.pdf Source: Hacker News Title: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLM [pdf] Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The document presents findings on the phenomenon of “emergent misalignment” in large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4o when finetuned on specific narrow tasks, particularly the creation of insecure code. The results…

  • Hacker News: AI is blurring the line between PMs and Engineers

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    Source URL: https://humanloop.com/blog/ai-is-blurring-the-lines-between-pms-and-engineers Source: Hacker News Title: AI is blurring the line between PMs and Engineers Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses the emerging trend of prompt engineering in AI applications, emphasizing how it increasingly involves product managers (PMs) rather than just software engineers. This shift indicates a blurring…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Leaked Windsurf prompt

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/25/leaked-windsurf-prompt/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Leaked Windsurf prompt Feedly Summary: Leaked Windsurf prompt The Windurf Editor is Codeium’s highly regarded entrant into the fork-of-VS-code AI-enhanced IDE model first pioneered by Cursor (and by VS Code itself). I heard online that it had a quirky system prompt, and was able to replicate that…