Tag: development practices

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Andrew Nesbitt

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/12/andrew-nesbitt/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Andrew Nesbitt Feedly Summary: Slopsquatting — when an LLM hallucinates a non-existent package name, and a bad actor registers it maliciously. The AI brother of typosquatting. Credit to @sethmlarson for the name — Andrew Nesbitt Tags: ai-ethics, slop, packaging, generative-ai, supply-chain, ai, llms, seth-michael-larson AI Summary…

  • The Register: AI can’t stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/12/ai_code_suggestions_sabotage_supply_chain/ Source: The Register Title: AI can’t stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything Feedly Summary: Hallucinated package names fuel ‘slopsquatting’ The rise of AI-powered code generation tools is reshaping how developers write software – and introducing new risks to the software supply chain in the process.… AI Summary and Description: Yes…

  • Slashdot: AI Models Still Struggle To Debug Software, Microsoft Study Shows

    Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/04/11/0519242/ai-models-still-struggle-to-debug-software-microsoft-study-shows Source: Slashdot Title: AI Models Still Struggle To Debug Software, Microsoft Study Shows Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The study by Microsoft Research highlights the limitations of popular AI models, such as Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet and OpenAI’s o3-mini, in successfully debugging software. Despite advancements, AI still falls short…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: llm-fragments-go

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/10/llm-fragments-go/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: llm-fragments-go Feedly Summary: llm-fragments-go Filippo Valsorda released the first plugin by someone other than me that uses LLM’s new register_fragment_loaders() plugin hook I announced the other day. Install with llm install llm-fragments-go and then: You can feed the docs of a Go package into LLM using the…

  • Docker: Run LLMs Locally with Docker: A Quickstart Guide to Model Runner

    Source URL: https://www.docker.com/blog/run-llms-locally/ Source: Docker Title: Run LLMs Locally with Docker: A Quickstart Guide to Model Runner Feedly Summary: AI is quickly becoming a core part of modern applications, but running large language models (LLMs) locally can still be a pain. Between picking the right model, navigating hardware quirks, and optimizing for performance, it’s easy…

  • Slashdot: DeepMind Details All the Ways AGI Could Wreck the World

    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/04/03/2236242/deepmind-details-all-the-ways-agi-could-wreck-the-world Source: Slashdot Title: DeepMind Details All the Ways AGI Could Wreck the World Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a technical paper from DeepMind that explores the potential risks associated with the development of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and offers suggestions for safe development practices. It highlights…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Nolan Lawson

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/3/nolan-lawson/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Nolan Lawson Feedly Summary: I started using Claude and Claude Code a bit in my regular workflow. I’ll skip the suspense and just say that the tool is way more capable than I would ever have expected. The way I can use it to interrogate a…

  • Slashdot: DeepMind is Holding Back Release of AI Research To Give Google an Edge

    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/04/01/1648250/deepmind-is-holding-back-release-of-ai-research-to-give-google-an-edge?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: DeepMind is Holding Back Release of AI Research To Give Google an Edge Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Google DeepMind has altered its publication policy to maintain a competitive advantage in AI research, introducing stringent vetting processes that hinder the release of studies. This shift, aimed…

  • AWS News Blog: Accelerating CI with AWS CodeBuild: Parallel test execution now available

    Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/accelerating-ci-with-aws-codebuild-parallel-test-execution-now-available/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: Accelerating CI with AWS CodeBuild: Parallel test execution now available Feedly Summary: Speed up build times on CodeBuild with test splitting across multiple parallel build environments. Read how test splitting with CodeBuild works and how to get started. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses…

  • Hacker News: The role of developer skills in agentic coding

    Source URL: https://martinfowler.com/articles/exploring-gen-ai.html#memo-13 Source: Hacker News Title: The role of developer skills in agentic coding Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** This text explores various dimensions related to the integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) in coding through examples of toolchains, usage of GitHub Copilot, and effective practices for leveraging Generative AI…