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  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: I Shipped a macOS App Built Entirely by Claude Code

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/6/macos-app-built-entirely-by-claude-code/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: I Shipped a macOS App Built Entirely by Claude Code Feedly Summary: I Shipped a macOS App Built Entirely by Claude Code Indragie Karunaratne has “been building software for the Mac since 2008", but recently decided to try Claude Code to build a side project: Context, a…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Supabase MCP can leak your entire SQL database

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/6/supabase-mcp-lethal-trifecta/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Supabase MCP can leak your entire SQL database Feedly Summary: Supabase MCP can leak your entire SQL database Here’s yet another example of a lethal trifecta attack, where an LLM system combines access to private data, exposure to potentially malicious instructions and a mechanism to communicate data…

  • Slashdot: Microsoft Open Sources Copilot Chat for VS Code on GitHub

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    Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/07/05/1935203/microsoft-open-sources-copilot-chat-for-vs-code-on-github Source: Slashdot Title: Microsoft Open Sources Copilot Chat for VS Code on GitHub Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Microsoft has open-sourced the GitHub Copilot Chat extension for VS Code, allowing developers to access its internal workings, including data handling and telemetry. This transparency is significant for security, as it…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Identify, solve, verify

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/4/identify-solve-verify/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Identify, solve, verify Feedly Summary: The more time I spend using LLMs for code, the less I worry for my career – even as their coding capabilities continue to improve. Using LLMs as part of my process helps me understand how much of my job isn’t just…

  • Slashdot: Simple Text Additions Can Fool Advanced AI Reasoning Models, Researchers Find

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/07/04/1521245/simple-text-additions-can-fool-advanced-ai-reasoning-models-researchers-find Source: Slashdot Title: Simple Text Additions Can Fool Advanced AI Reasoning Models, Researchers Find Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The research highlights a significant vulnerability in state-of-the-art reasoning AI models through the “CatAttack” technique, which attaches irrelevant phrases to math problems, leading to higher error rates and inefficient responses.…

  • The Register: Amazon built a massive AI supercluster for Anthropic called Project Rainier – here’s what we know so far

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/04/project_rainier_deep_dive/ Source: The Register Title: Amazon built a massive AI supercluster for Anthropic called Project Rainier – here’s what we know so far Feedly Summary: It’s almost like AWS is building its own Stargate deep dive Amazon Web Services (AWS) is in the process of building out a massive supercomputing cluster containing “hundreds…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: awwaiid/gremllm

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/4/gremllm/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: awwaiid/gremllm Feedly Summary: awwaiid/gremllm Delightfully cursed Python library by Brock Wilcox, built on top of LLM: from gremllm import Gremllm counter = Gremllm(“counter") counter.value = 5 counter.increment() print(counter.value) # 6? print(counter.to_roman_numerals()) # VI? You tell your Gremllm what it should be in the constructor, then it uses…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Adam Gordon Bell

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/3/adam-gordon-bell/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Adam Gordon Bell Feedly Summary: I think that a lot of resistance to AI coding tools comes from the same place: fear of losing something that has defined you for so long. People are reacting against overblown hype, and there is overblown hype. I get that,…

  • The Register: AI models just don’t understand what they’re talking about

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/03/ai_models_potemkin_understanding/ Source: The Register Title: AI models just don’t understand what they’re talking about Feedly Summary: Researchers find models’ success at tests hides illusion of understanding Researchers from MIT, Harvard, and the University of Chicago have proposed the term “potemkin understanding" to describe a newly identified failure mode in large language models that…